I kind of hate the ipad apps that allow the kids to take pictures and am usually really annoyed when I look through my pictures and see 10 pictures in a row of blank screens or "drawings" with a stray mark here and there. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this one saved, though, because I thought it was cute. Adeline still loves to draw!
I came upstairs one day to hear Rob giving the kids a medical lecture on bones and joints and came in the room to see Adeline and Bobby both very interested in Daddy's anatomy book. Adeline told me that it was not fun at all, but it was exciting because it was studying.
Reading some math books from the library and getting lots of counting practice.
Fishing at the beach (we rode our bikes down the beach to the river and then went up the river a little bit to do our fishing)
Crabbing and more fishing.
Rob made some really tasty crab cakes...and I don't usually like crab at all!
Jumping off of things.
Being silly with Daddy.
Playing in the backyard pool. For some reason the kids like to go down the slide like this. Its funny that they will go all the way under the water in our little pool, but are scared to death to do it in a real pool.
Rob took the kids outside one night to look at the full moon. They loved playing with the binoculars and "sleeping" in the grass.
More fishing. Bobby actually caught this flounder all by himself. He kept saying "I caught a fish! I caught a fish!" and we just kept saying "good for you, real it in" not thinking he really had anything on there, but Bobby proved us wrong and pulled in his first real fish!
Adeline caught this one. Mostly, I held the pole until I felt a fish on and then let her real it in. She wanted a picture with her fish just like Bobby. And this was the fishing outfit she chose for the day...
Holding up a lady fish. We catch a lot of these little guys for bait. The kids love to "play" with them in the bate bucket until we cut them up.
Pulling in a crab.
More simple machine playing. This is our lever and fulcrum experiment.
Trying to build a race track like the one in the book. WAY harder than it looks.
The kids new favorite library book. It actually has some really fun things to build, if only the kids were a little bit older and could actually do some of it themselves.
A sneak peak at Bobby's Halloween costume. ($4 at the consignment store! WooHoo!) Bobby loves dragons lately and his favorite song is Puff the Magic Dragon.
Cooking club. We experimented with basic chicken breast recipes and jazzed them up a bit. My favorites were the mango chutney chicken, the sweet potatoes, and the herbed garlic bread!
Somehow we fit 11 people in my kitchen and were able to make 3 separate meals all at the same time!
More jumping off things at our informal pick up soccer practice. Funny how jumping off this bench was the most organized thing the kids would do, and no adults were involved in setting up this "game."
This is a good example of how Adeline and Bobby spent the rest of soccer practice. Maybe we'll wait a year or two before actually paying money to put the kids in organized sports...
Stringing beads onto pipe cleaners. Fun fine motor skills practice while watching Netflix...
A morning at the beach with friends
Apparently I don't know how to make this picture right side up. It seems like it would be such an easy fix and I just can't seem to do it in this program! Oh well, This is a counting to 100 book. Adeline can count to 40 on her own and then with some help, all the way to 100 as long as I help her with the tens number (50, 60, 70, etc). I'm really impressed how she just picked this up one day and I could tell that the pattern just clicked for her and she could do it.
Visiting the fire station with the MOMS Club.
Backyard painting on wood.
One night Adeline was very excited to make us a salad. She picked some herbs from the garden and wanted to make a salad out of them. Luckily I was able to convince her to use real lettuce instead of just herbs and then she chose all the other normal (thank goodness) ingredients to add to it. I helped her chop the vegetables and she was so proud of her salad. Not proud enough to actually eat it (or even taste it) but Rob and I enjoyed ours, except for the big leaves of thai basil we kept finding in it that I wasn't able to pick out completely without Adeline noticing.
Adeline's to do list that she made before we had friends over for dinner. Earlier in the day she had asked me how to spell pee, so I told her and she obviously remembered and put it on her list. She is also very proud of the fact that she "learned" how to spell DVD all on her own, so that is how that made it onto the list. I helped her spell clothes because that was actually the only thing I really needed her to do before company came over.
Another day of fishing.
This crane let us get very close. We fed it one of our bait fish and the kids loved watching it eat the fish and swallow it down its long neck.
Rob's monster red fish. It was such a bittersweet catch because it was 10 inches bigger than the legal size to keep. I LOVE to eat fresh red fish, so I was disappointed. The kids wanted us to put in the the bait bucket so they could play with it! It was an exciting fishing trip for all of us!
Bobby playing in the crabbing net.
Rob took Adeline to a service project with church while I stayed home with Bobby when he was sick. Adeline got to help paint a little, but mostly just drew pictures.
A VERY windy day at the beach.
Adeline's sand pictures.
