Cleaning

During the afternoon I walked into my bedroom and noticed that the kids, needing some nice clean space, had decided that my room would be a good space to play in. So it was a real mess.

After dinner I told Liam about three times to make sure that he had it cleaned up. He insisted that Ada should help since she was his accomplice. When putting the kids to bed, I saw that the floor was picked up.

At 11:30, after school work and writing letters of recommendation I was exhausted and ready for bed. And then I saw that Pictureka was laid out all over my bed just waiting for me to put it away.

Quaking Bog and Eloise Butler

Since it has been such a warm October, we’ve been outside as much as we can. Today we went to the very dry Quaking Bog (Frog Bog) and the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary. The kids really liked the walk, although it does get dark much more quickly than it does during the summer months, so our Quaking Bog walk was much shorter than it usually is.

Institute of Arts Family Day

Helena asked to do the scavenger hunt even before we got in the building, so the first thing that we did was to get the map. Ada insisted that she wanted one, too, but by the time we had finished doing the artwork, she had lost it. Liam was nice enough to get her another one (after I told him to!)

They are as much as excited to use the map as to find the art work on the walls (or in display cases), and certainly more than learning about the artwork. Liam had to pick up a museum map after awhile because Ada kept getting mad at him when he would want to figure out where to go next.

We noticed that kids had lost of styrofoam pumpkins and fruit on our walks, so we went to the place we usually do to do our second piece of art work but it was closed. Luckily on the way out we found out where we could make them. I mad a red pepper, Helena made fruit, Liam a soda can, and Ada a jackolantern. Then the kids wanted me to make something else, so I mad a Guinness can and for Ada, some autumn-colored malted milk balls that we’ve been stealing at Rainbow. (Actually, the kids have liked the sponge candy more, lately)