July 2-3

With only 2 days between Canada Day and Independence Day it was go go go to get our lapbook work done. But first… we had a CANADIAN lapbook to complete. We found our printable for the national anthem HERE thanks to Kidzone. Most of our printables came from Actvity Village HERE.

Very basic but we all had a hand in it

We also built our large Canadian puzzle. Sadly we are missing some pieces but nothing massive.

With the knowledge of papermaking firmly under our belts we took ANOTHER go at it. I am not sure how consistent we are getting but I do know that we are having HUGE amounts of fun doing it!

We have a rather amazing neighbourhood here. On Father’s Day we had a large ball pop after rolling into the road, well on the 2nd the man who was driving the truck came over, apologized and brought the kids ANOTHER ball!!! All I could say was, this was NOT necessary and THANK YOU for confirming that our babies did the RIGHT thing. There was NO running into the road, NO chasing the ball and LOTS of paying attention. I am one proud Momma!! And my babies are happy with TWO large balls (we had gone out and bought another the next day ourselves.).

Sean and Ken also moved the playset as it is to the backyard. There has been some great progress on it!

Echo has been working on what she calls “e”s.

The day before Independence Day was a great day for random crafts with the kids doing their paper craft creating while I was in the tub. I got out to some lovely themed items!

And then…. SURPRISE a visitor… well TWO! Bree and Lily! They had an errand near us and the yen for fancy coffee. So we ran the errand, got the coffee and then visited at the house while Bree made some necessary calls.

PHOTO OP!!!

No, seriously, LOTS so enjoy!

I love how they were yelling at each other

Yup, with Sean already here we had ourselves some new visitors… I got a relatively kid free outing and some awesome coffee… and the kids got their American info rolling. Not bad not bad.

June 29 (continued)-30

We had Sean at home waiting for us as well as a mostly not built playset to build so we left Gabriella’s party not long after cake. With lots of sun left in the day we had Ken out there hard at work. And of course when Daddy is outside where else would the kids be???

With all this rain in the evening the sidewalk is an always clear slate for creativity.

Now on Sunday I decided to go with crafting, crafting and more crafting… first our paint and paper fireworks. This is one we did years ago… you take paints (liquid), put some drops close together on a piece of paper (poster paper is best) and put a plastic lid on top… now the fun part – take a hammer or mallet and SMACK IT!!! Watch it though, if you hit hard enough there is a little splash! I think we got some rather amazing fireworks out of the project!

Supplies

Then it was time for lunch…

And onto our next craft… paper making! We followed Kiss the Groom’s instructions HERE. We used pink tissue paper for our first batch and wow did it go pink! Then grass on the second. We need to blend the grass solo first. All in all, our first attempts are rather cool. We are going to keep making different kinds, the boys want to make some good enough that they could be put up on Etsy to see if anyone would buy some! I figure why not.

Our pulpy mixture

With homemade frame

Of course the girls had to check out the playset progress.

AND we found a toad in the backyard! Rather cool!

Critters, playsets… crafting! We did good!!!

Look who snuck out after her bath!