This week was fun and busy! We started the week off by staying home, ha ha, and resting a bit. And then we ended the week with a lot of work and play!
Our co-op visited the Evergreen Aviation Museum this week. The boys enjoyed looked at all the planes, touring the Spruce Goose, and playing at the really cool play structure between the two museums. Emmet had his final makerspace class that evening, so him and Avery and I left to head to that: however, Michael wanted to be able to tour the space building and stayed with co-op. Another mom dropped him back off at home later that day. Emmet's last makerspace class was all about bicycle maintenance! He took his own bike and Blue, the instructor, helped them take apart, put back together, and give their bicycles a tune up! Emmet loved it!
We picked out a night sky puzzle at the gift shop! The boys also picked out some wooden buildable planes they are still working on.
The best play structure ever!
Emmet build a really cool lego plane after we went to the museum. He hung two strings from chairs, and his lego plane had pieces that clipped around the string, so he could fly his plane back and forth! We were all impressed!
I am encouraging journaling once a week again. I am mostly doing it to hold myself accountable to keep a journal of what is happening in the garden weekly. If we do it together maybe I will be able to keep up with it. lol! Avery drew a picture of us building our new greenhouse tunnel! (more on that in a bit).
Michael was practicing headstands that morning and journaled about it.
Working on those wooden buildable!
Puzzling over that puzzle! We made the mistake of starting it on our dining table, so we haven't eaten all week, LOL, just kidding, we push the puzzle around and eat on the edges. John, the boys dad, has sat for hours this last week helping Michael, and even my dad stopped by one day and sat down for a while. Puzzles are fun for everyone!
Over the weekend we had a farm volunteer day!! It was clear until people showed up, then rained on us the whole time! The group of pre teen boys below played with umbrellas, but we did get a little bit of begrudging work out of them too.
Michael helped John take down a 50 foot tunnel and put it back up, adding a second tunnel worth of parts, to create our new 92" growing greenhouse!! We will have tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, and even ginger growing in it this summer!
The boys helped lay cardboard down this side of the garden. Adult helpers then covered the cardboard in compost we made last year with veggie scraps, chicken coop bedding, and some weeds. We are not great at compost yet, still learning, so we are using it on plants in our orchard, or for mulching like this area to keep weeds down. Someday we will learn the fines of compost and be able to make it for our garden beds, but for now it would be too full of weed seeds to be useful!
We also read Story of the World, did our math and writing books three days, worked on our opinion writing pieces, and Avery did his reading lesson.
The boys also attended their roll play group Kids on Brooms and Michael went to his DnD group on Wesnesday. My brother comes once a month to lead our family DnD and that happened on Sunday!
We are re-reading the Harry Potter series (I am reading it aloud). We finished book one, watched the movie, and are now on to book two! Avery doesn't remember reading it the first time around and it has been fun making comparisons to the book and movie.
Have a wonderful week!
The Dillmans
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