We found this cool new playground that we are calling "The Tree Park" close to home. It is very close to the Bow River and Fish Creek Park in a newer community in Calgary. We enjoyed the equipment itself and the kids caught a grasshopper on their own for the first time!
We got an amazing haul of tomatoes from the ONE tomato plant in my garden this year. We counted over 70 from one picking and we had already enjoyed over 30. There were also at least 40 that were over ripe or had slug holes in them that we had to compost.
Playing with money and looking for money from different countries (turns out we have quite a lot of money from other countries!)
Lovely notes from Poppy.
One day Rowan asked if he could make a cake. I was so tired and could not get myself off the couch. The babies were both sleeping and I was taking advantage of that time to have a rest. Rowan got a cookbook and all of the ingredients. He put everything into the bowl as pictured above. Unfortunately he didn't know about creaming the shortening with the sugar, then beating in the eggs and cocoa, and so on. So it looked a bit like a strange soup. I promised I would help teach him to make a proper cake!
Rowan had a few days where he made each of us breakfast (including coffee for me). He made something different for each person as to their tastes and was so proud of himself.
Just playing at the park and loving the Fall colours.
Frozen yogurt at Devonian Gardens.
This is how my counter looks a lot of the time. Garden tomatoes waiting to be eaten and or cooked somehow, Rowan with his nose in a Dungeons and Dragons book (his new passion) recording statistics and creating characters, and other vegetables needing preparation.
Rowan and I enjoy a game of some sort when Poppy is at her ORFF music class. On this day we played some Scrabble!
Rowan is signed up for a class once a month at Patterson Springs Farm for their home school days. In October he learned about: Bringing in the Harvest including what to do to the garden in the Fall before it is put to sleep. Rowan takes the words of Lindsie and her mother, Louise, very seriously and gives me very clear directions after taking one of their classes. He also took a class in November: Bread, Butter, and Jam where he brought home a loaf of bread to bake, a cinnamon bun that he made, and some jam that they made in class. He learns so much from these classes and gets to see some of his friends most of the time. ind their own flour and make their own loaf of bread. We will also make butter from scratch and make jam using fruit from
Rowan also took a Drama class this Fall (see very below) so Poppy and I had some lovely coffee dates during that time. This was taken right before Halloween and she got many compliments while we were out.
Poppy took a dance class at our community centre in the Fall. It was a general class where they learned several different styles. She enjoyed it but was quite serious in learning and became somewhat overwhelmed by the girls who wouldn't listen or who got too close to her.
Rowan and Poppy had an original costume this year!
The Drama class at Evergreen Theatre. Rowan enjoyed the class as well and the final production was ok, but really fell short of the class as it was taught by the former Instructor.
Every year right before Remembrance Day we visit our Military Museum. On the day we chose to go there was a power outage. We waited for quite a while and decided to wander around outside as there is some military equipment on the grounds. Two of the fellows who work at the Museum were moving some of the tanks and letting the engines run, and they invited the kids to climb inside and see what it was like. It smelled very strongly of gas and was very small quarters for the number of soldiers who would have to sit inside. It was a good experience and the kids were thankful to get to see inside a real tank.
