July 26-28

The day after our fun day as a family Nana and Baba took the older children out for a fun day with grandparents – to the Zoo to ride rides!!

That left myself and Echo at loose ends with Ken working… so what better to do than walk to the nearby garage sale, talk to the sweet older lady there and buy some books. Nana gave Echo her OWN dollars which was used to get an adorable koala beanie baby.

Juice Break!

Koala!

The next day we added cousins to the house as their parents went out for a weekend of camping. With the addition of cousins we left the twins to their time with those closest in age and their grandparents and headed over to have our own BBQ with relatively newly returned from New Mexico Matt and Fran and their twins Henry and Isadore.

They are a year younger than Trinity. 5 little ones running around together was so much fun!

We ended our weekend rather quietly with fun around the house.

With cousins

We really are trying to take advantage of ALL our sunny days. And the overcast ones as well!

June 27-28

Well after the excitement of the zoo and seeing their buddies we had to have journal time… Emanuel and Trinity did amazing nature journal pictures. Though Trinity’s was an imagination picture based on animals she saw.

We had our paperchain to make in vibrant red, white and blue…

The sunroom just seems to be a wonderland for the kids to do their schoolwork in. A nice change from being in the basement.

So we continued our Independence Day learning…

And had another rather enjoyable dino dig session.

So much unearthed

We checked out Nana’s flowers on her trellis. Purple and pink and lovely!

We had ice cream sandwiches.

…and I finally got together the necessary supplies to make Trinity her own Relax Bottle/Time Out Timer… I have to admit we are all soothed by the gentle movement of the glitter… you can find the instructions HERE thanks to My Crazy Blessed Life!

The girls even took a walk with Sean and Ken.

Friday brought a continuation on the same learning path in the same sunny room…

Ken managed a half day with time to work on the playset.

While the kids drew and created their own amazing art on our paper roll.

The masterpiece

There has been some nice progress on the playset… AND Ken finally put up the carset on the wall.

And we got a special package in the mail. The beginnings of coin collecting with Gammie!

So we ended our week working on much the same as we started… but progress on all fronts AND a special day right in the middle.

how about you… you… you? You could come too… too… too. We’re going to the zoo… zoo… zoo…

I love how Ken is still rubbing sunscreen onto his ears.

Near the entrance

I love the romantic lighting from the moisture heavy air.

Out from behind the camera for a moment.

Mr. Q

I swear this polar bear has OCD it kept swimming then going up like that and bobbing its head

Out front of the polar bear area.

Bison

Snack time

These two stuck together like glue.

Lions… no tigers and bears… oh my.

Steep stairs

How tall IS a giraffe?

Zander’s favourite

Monkey of some sort

Quinn and Steve had matching shoes

I wish I had the patience

And a chipmunk on the way out