Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: May 28, 2010
On our nature walk we also found bugs/insects: And some unusual plants: Something that looks like tall asparagus. And I didn’t bother checking the name of the one on the right but I know that it is a water plant and it was found in a moist ditch. One of these days I will have [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: February 27, 2010
This is my painting from yesterday: These are the boys’ clay projects: They are unfinished of course. We will paint them tomorrow. This one is mine: And yesterday I let Trey take pictures with my digital camera. This one I just had to share: He caught his little sister and brother curled up in the corner cupboard [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: February 20, 2010
This has been our favorite thing to learn about these days. Kevin is fascinated with the solar system (an interest that the kids tweaked in him) so he has been reading book after book about planets and he is even talking about the local astronomy chapter so that he can learn more about telescopes and [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: January 11, 2010
In celebration of the beautiful weather today I decided to crawl out of my house. I drove my husband back to work after his lunch break and then did groceries with the kids. The kids were asking for all kinds of fruit today and I couldn’t say no to nutrition so we came home with six different [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: January 3, 2010
I hate winter but I feel like my kids aren’t really getting the full extent of the winter experience. Mostly because I hate winter and it’s been so frigid this winter so I try to stay in whenever I can. So I looked at the suggestions in the I Love Dirtbook and found this peanut-butter-bird-seed-pine-cone-craft-thing. [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: June 16, 2009
I will be honest. I haven’t had time to identify these so I am just throwing the pictures in here. Feel free to identify anything you wish too. I don’t know when I will get around to it. The one here > is a baby grasshopper. I am pretty sure that this one is canola.
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: June 16, 2009
We spent the weekend on my in-laws farm. It was terrific weather and we spent as much of it outdoors as we could. It was great for the kids to climb on hay bails and look for spiders and run through the tall (semi-tall, it is pretty dry right now) grass. They got to ride [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: April 7, 2009
This morning we have devoted our craft time to spring! Here are our budding tree paintings and our Spring wall: And it is shaping up to be a wonderful day today as well. I just wish we had more places to explore. I guess the neighbourhood will have to do until Kevin can take us [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: April 6, 2009
What nice weather we have. I am seeing gophers and geese and I have even seen a butterfly! I think we are done with this winter at last. Today was so nice. We all went for a walk. You could actually see water dripping off of snow chunks. Anyways, the kids played at the small [...]
Posted by: theworldismysoyster on: March 31, 2009
I had promised the kids a nature walk since the temperature was acceptable but the sun never showed and the wind was cold. They were really excited so we bundled up and headed outdoors for some rock collecting. I was thrilled to see some signs of spring. This winter has seemed to be never-ending and [...]
