It doesn’t matter if it is days or months… there are always those extra pictures I can’t help but share!!! I hope that they entertain!

She does have the most interesting fashion sense

Can you believe she can actually walk in this?

My main card making helper

Jeffrey is just too cute for one blog post’s worth of images!

The girls just LOVE him

Echo does love to act along with her shows

Thank you Aunty Esther! We love our Canadian mittens!!

Fairies DO exist in our house!

Gammie sent us more books for Christmas. This is our second read aloud and mail books. There is nothing more lovely than having someone read you a story. The kids listened to that one over and over again!

Crafting babies warms mother’s heart… I love when they do something creative

Raccoons thanks to Wild Kratts

TURKEY!

November Home Depot

Another month of successful reading

We found this in the basement!!

Baby Faced Ken

Culvers!

Lest We Forget! The Red Poppy! Sadly this one went missing. I need to get some imported!

Future chefs

HUGE accomplishment of Ken’s – two car garage HOLDS TWO CARS!

Echo’s first sessions

Thanksgiving dress thanks to Gammie

Thanksgiving dress thanks to Gammie

August 25-30

Well everyone has already experienced our amazing Renaissance Festival fun on the 25th. You can find that day HERE. But after so much fun in the hot hot sun it was back to normal on the Monday.

Zander finally finished his grade 2 mathbook so soon we will bring out the 3!

We even made time for a Wild Kratts.

Gila Monster

On Tuesday we continued on with our Lion learning. I love using storybooks to supplement our finish products and these scratch paper pictures are terrific!

Amazingly enough Trinity and Echo had a “do everything together” day!!!

Middle of the week was Emanuel’s turn to shine with a completion…

And the whole gang worked on getting in the day’s harvest from the straw bale garden!

Thursday was back to work…

Kenya

Look Esther!! They drew you!

and back to the pool! Any time we can get some fun in the yard is always a bonus!

The kids really excelled in their schoolwork. So we drove over to McDonald’s and treated them all to ice cream. 59 cents a piece is always an amazing deal, especially when you need to buy 7!!!

We ended our week with Zachary over for the morning. He, Gabriella and their parents were going camping with Nana and Baba for most of the Labour Day long weekend. So he came over Thursday night to leave Friday morning. Though his asthma was acting up in the extreme humidity so they had to stay inside to play.

After the campers left we ran outside to check our beans… which apparently grew best if we ignored them completely!

Play on the playset…

And just generally mug for the camera.

And that is our week in a nutshell!!!

August 19-21

After all the fun celebrating Echo’s 3rd birthday it was back to normal school time outside on the Monday. All this sunshine is so lovely!

We finally had the time to do our August mini poster.

They got imaginative this month!

And enjoy another Wild Kratts episode.

Rattlesnakes!!!

On Tuesday the boys wrote their own comic strips… I hunted for some templates online and we went from there. Anything to be creative AND utilize our growing lion knowledge.

Don’t forget chatting with Aunty Esther on Skype!!! We miss her soooo much!

On Wednesday I noticed the neighbours across the way were having another garage sale so we headed right over in the morning to check it out. It was good that we did, we picked up some old National Geographics and books at a great price.

That is a Dr. Seuss book I have never been able to budget in as well!

We realized that the day was going to get hot fast so we went right from our garage sale shopping to emptying out and refilling the pool in a new location in the yard. Time to put off schooling and enjoy the weather while we could!

Such active helpersAnd then a refill and we had a surprise cousin infiltration!

These moments are so wonderful. I am so lucky to be home to enjoy and to instigate them!!!