My children spent the evening with their grandparents tonight.  My dad brought them back home around 8:30pm.  After everyone was in their pajamas they all(even the baby) came into my room and we lounged on my bed.  My children took the notebook I was going to write my lessons in and started writing letters.  And lo and behold my 4 year old starts writing the capital letter E and A.  He was doing such a good job that I wrote out the letters of his name and told him to copy them.  He did such a fine job with every letter in his name(with a little instruction from me.  He refused to let me hold his hand with the pencil in it.  He is a VERY independent type and gets frustrated very easily when he cannot do something so I had to give him VERBAL instruction so he would not make certain letters backwards).  Granted the letters were all over the paper but he wrote each and every one of them from his name.  Then I started dictating other letters from the alphabet for him to write and he wrote them with only a little instruction from me. 

I am so amazed and overjoyed at this b/c I focus so much on doing my daughter's lessons that I really don't spend the time that I feel like I should with him.  He has never had consistent, intensive lessons(like my daughter did) on how to make the strokes for each letter. But this 4yo has picked up(from watching his sister and looking at the letters I guess) how to form the letters of the alphabet.  He used to make the letters with crayons...not WRITE the letters with crayons but make the letter A with 3 crayons; the letter T with 2 crayons and the letter H with 3 crayons, etc.  He could only do the letters that had no curves in them with the crayons.  So I see he is very hands-on.

I used to feel very bad and guilty at the fact that I don't spend the time on him that I do her but I see that he is learning.  He is picking things up.  When I read the bible during bible study or any other book and I ask them questions I find he comes up with the right answer at times when she doesn't. 

I'm just so proud of my little guy!!!!  And I am grateful to God for "giving the increase"...as the word says, some water and others plant but it is God that gives the increase.  We can teach, explain, instruct, direct, etc. but it is the Holy Spirit that brings that knowledge they have received together into UNDERSTANDING and then eventually WISDOM.  The bible says that UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM come from the Lord.  So as I sow the seeds of information and principles into those little hearts and minds I'll continue to trust God to formulate it all inside of them and to give them the understanding and wisdom they will need into the knowledge of God Himself and the knowledge, understanding, and wisdom they'll need to live this physical life.