This was a week where I took very few photos!! We read our next Story of the World Chapter on New Zealand, the Maori peoples, and British taking control. We only have one more chapter left in SOTW, and then we do our final projects!
Emmet and Avery want their own garden space. Avery already had a small bed (to the left) from last year and this weekend we will plant it full with things. Emmet's we found as a free shipping crate and added compost this week. He also will plant it out this weekend. They envisioned a tunnel between the two beds with veggies growing over it on a trellis. I will try my best to create this vision with them!
Co-op had one day at a water plark, playing baseball and keeping cool in the splash pad! The second day I joined them on a short hike and mostly playing in the creek day at Jones Creek. We found crawdads and little fish and identified so many plants.
We go to play my favorite of our new games this week! It was quite silly, simple, and used quite a bit of memory work and math! They boys thought it was weird that the instructions only said "she" and never "he" when referring to players, and we all agreed it wasn't very inclusive, but they enjoyed it and want to play again WHILE drinking tea!
Turkey chick update! We have 10, they are all happy and thriving!
Michael decided one day to craft his own homemade fishing pole, and so the other brothers followed suit! They made hooks with paper clips, and also made rings along the pole for the line to run through with paper clips. We haven't been able to go try them in the water, but they made paper origami fish and try to catch them off the porch, haha. This was all inspired by a show we have been watching where people are dropped in remote, difficult to live areas with only 10 items. Whomever lasts the longest wins money, but the boys are SO fastened by the homemade shelters, fishing and hunting tools, and how these people are finding ways to survive. I am turned off, as several of the first to go home ate something that didn't agree with them and they showed "wonderful" video of them all being violently ill, one of the only things that makes me sick to my stomach is watching or hearing someone else throw up. Yuck. However, I enjoy the boys are interested and they all want to have a "survive" day and go build their own forts out of small trees and branches. Emmet asked "Mommy can we do that?" and I said YES! Totally the reason we bought property!
We played more board games, D the Amazing Nanny brought some new fun ones which I forgot to write down the names of, as well as helped facilitate a Pokemon card trading and playing day.
Have a wonderful week
The Dillmans
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