May 6-7
It is now time to fully embrace the spring weather… And wow has it sort of melted into SUMMER heat. Two beautiful days, two beautiful walks culminating in park visits.
Monday’s walk was based on really just getting out and running free. The park was deserted and the kids went crazy going on all the equipment, climbing on things, sliding, playing in the gravel. The kids all took turns helping Echo to go down the bigger slides! Talk about a happy baby!!! It is great to get that fresh air first thing after breakfast and then get home in time to jump into the school work.
Slightly chilly but a good start to our week of walking
Helpful brothers
4 of 5
Working in the nature journals first
Helpful siblings!
With the lovely weather and a shelf full of comics we took a nice chunk of the afternoon in the 3 seasons porch and had a reading session… the kids built a tent to hide in for a bit, but most of all we checked out the new comics in the sun together.
Comfortable jumble
Even Miss T
We snuck in some Mother’s Day themed fun with a dinosaur twist with Emanuel and Trinity together… the book… T. Rex and the Mother’s Day Hug by Lois G. Grambling. They each drew what they thought a dinosaur could give his or her mommy for Mother’s Day. I love that Trinity branched out and drew her OWN dinosaur.
DINOSAURS
One more outside run in the evening and our week of fresh air got off to a grand start.
Fun in the sun
Tuesday we lucked out and found the park full of kids… a daycare or two was there (in home) and more than willing to play with us and share the mud turtle they found before heading off for their lunch. Apparently they usually go on Thursdays so now we have an unofficial playdate.
Park time, of course no pics of the other kids but it was FUN!
Such a beautiful day
Examining ants
We started Trinity’s very first lapbook based on Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman. I added to the lapbook I found on line with a worksheet from Obseussed HERE. All of the kids listened in on the story and Trinity and I went on to work on the light lapbook. It is so fun talking to her about Mommies.
Trinity wrote about her Mommy…
We are working our way through penguins on the edge of things this week with our REAL focus on Mother’s Day.
Gotta learn those facts
So far… a couple interesting points about the beginnings of the official day, history, etc. It was actually a bit of a hunt to find information about Mother’s Day and its history. I lucked out and tracked down a copy of the much lauded lapbook from Live and Learn Press. I am going to make up a blog entry once again to combine all my resources.
Emanuel and his bit about his godmommy Xinny
I think I mentioned our robots previously… Here are the images. Thanks again Art for Kids!
ROBOTS
Oh and we updated our list of signs of spring!
Note the little turtle included thanks to Emanuel
We had a second outing in the sun, this time to the front yard!
Bubbles!
Nana and Baba also bought a fresh pineapple so the kids got to see one cut up in a rather unique way.
Pineapple!
And then the kids rounded off the evening with Castle Panic with Daddy and Baba.
Games again
The best of inside AND outside fun with learning to boot these past two days!
Shoes in a row
Trinity was spoiled this year… Aunty Darcy was the artist behind her amazing cake and cupcakes. Isn’t it amazing how much Trinity and the princess off Tangled (before she cuts the hair) resemble each other??
We had quite the full house with Matt and Fran’s boys, the cousins and Novak 4 all there to celebrate. But the kids had an absolute blast and even Big Andy made it!!!
Ken made hamburgers from scratch. Spicy like we used to back home and non. Poor Echo didn’t even make it to dinner!
She was over the moon with all her presents.
They included a lovely pillow sent from God Mommy Karyn…
We really enjoyed our amazing Tangled cake! I think it was an AMAZING birthday party and am so appreciated to everyone who sent gifts or came in person! 
And now for the extras!
