a week in a flash

Has a whole week gone by since I popped in with a blog post?  I'll just jump back in.

We've been reading about dinosaurs, Caddie Woodlawn, more Berentsain Bears, and oodles of picture books. We've been watching Bill Nye, the Science Guy (brains and ocean exploration), the Frozen Planet series, The Electric Company, and various YouTube explorations. We've been listening to My Bonnie Light Horseman (being the sixth book of the saucy Bloody Jack series), Alice in Wonderland, free from storynory, and vintage children's album, both our own and free from kiddierecords.

 growing indoors now that the outdoor growing season is pretty much over in these parts

 enjoying a new thrift store find, Bazaar

 digging

 finger knitting 

 making art at the Children's Hospital....

while Camille gets up close and personal with her bones and her blood

 Camille has been having mysterious pain in one of her legs for quite awhile now, but it doesn't appear to be anything too serious.

 learning how to eat with chopsticks

 decoding

 learning how to iron and press seams

I am in the process of altering an old-fashioned dress pattern to make an old-fashioned night gown for Camille's upcoming play.

 fun with facepaint

We've also hung out with fun local friends, had a sleep over (Camille), had fun with city friends at Aldo Leopold Nature Center (that will be its own blog post, methinks), baked cranberry maple cheesecake squares, fed the chickens, and danced in the living room.  As my sweet Sylvia would say, it was a rockin' good week.