September 27-29

After an amazing day out as a family it was back to the same old same old… Egypt…

Making block flowers…

Watching Wild Kratts…

Elephants

With the added surprise of mega blocks from Gammie… these were SKYLANDERS themed! So the boys were doubly excited! (The girls got Halloween outfits they will try on later in the month).

We had our Saturday fall  to pieces with work for Ken (plan wise) and with a day that was not as sunny as we had hoped we had to make do with inside fun… colouring books…

Games together…

Of course that didn’t stop us from our Sunday School session. Ken and the kids went and had a blast learning more and more about our faith. And Echo and I had a nice visit together, doing laundry… hanging out and enjoying the quiet together. Then it was off to McDonald’s with 4 special cone coupons….. Ice cream is truly affordable when only one needs to be paid for!With an afternoon of garden checking…

And building…

And a lucky find at Michaels for Echo’s costume…

Ken and I ended the weekend with good geeky tv AND Chinese take out! Delicious! 

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 16-17

After our adventurous evening NO ONE was complaining when I suggested we end our school week at home in the backyard! Trinity has said she would love another walk, just NOT to McDonalds! But we did it and I am VERY proud of it!

Emanuel finished his subtraction book… we are covering some of the basics one at a time… next is addition then onto the beginning reading sounds. I know he KNOWS most of this but we are really starting his schooling shortly and I feel it is important to review and get him in the right frame of mind. I am lax in Kindergarten generally to learn by play but I do want more of an organized gr. 1 so it can be a bit of a shock!!

Of course we still had time to enjoy nature!

Drawing it, talking about it and sitting in the sun!

I also need to show off the amazing penguins Gavin assembled using a kit we got at Michaels that really had TOUGH instructions. He stuck with it and they are TERRIFIC!

Saturday was our final prep day before Echo’s big party. So of course we ran off to Lakeshore to do the weekly craft! I checked, they go year round… so when we have the vehicle free (trust me, importing a 10+ yr old vehicle has been a royal PAIN) and the day we head over.

I picked up some marvelous little dictionaries for each of the boys. I want to relieve some of the stress of writing so they can check and see if they can find the spelling 0n those words they are unsure of in these, and record new ones as well!

This had us near JoAnn’s so I was able to get supplies for two of my Christmas presents, and head over to the nearby mall to pick up free Victoria’s Secret panties (I do so love a good coupon!). Echo takes instant possession of any and all bags lately! Especially ones that are pretty with ribbons!

What to do after errands and crafts with sunshine? PICNIC and PARK! We thought ahead and remembered the soccer ball this time!

All in all a fun way to work our way up to Echo’s 3rd birthday party!