We’ve lived in this house for over six years, and tonight I saw something I’ve never seen here before—a hummingbird. I walked by our dining room window, and there it was hanging out in the impatiens. The hummingbird flew away quickly, but I took a moment to thank God for sending what I like to think of as a love note. A while later it returned, and this time Aaron, Kayla and Madeline saw it, too.
Pictures from the Amazing Dow Gardens
We’ve had the opportunity this year to explore the incredible Dow Gardens. They are located a little over half-an-hour away in Midland, Michigan. This makes for a great evening getaway–which we took advantage of tonight. We took two cameras along and got a variety of nice pictures. Just click each thumbnail for the full picture. Enjoy 🙂
Flaxseeds anyone?
Today at lunch Kayla was picking the flaxseeds off the crust of her bread when she said, “mmm, Mommy, these are so good. What are these?” I explained that they are flaxseeds, that they’re super healthy and that they can even help your skin not to itch so much. Motivated by my speech, Kayla was eager to try some plain, so I poured some on her plate from a container in the fridge. Madeline wanted the same. I lost count of how many times the girls said, “may I have more flaxseeds please?”
Birthday Cake
I didn’t intend to make my own belated birthday cake this year. It just sort of happened.
Each week Kayla picks a recipe from her Sesame Street cookbook. We make a shopping list, purchase the ingredients and then spend some time cooking together. It’s great fun for me, and good practice for my little cook! So far we’ve made sweet recipes instead of nutritious side dishes—like cool cucumber soup and golden zucchini coins. That’s what you get when you let the lil’ chef choose!
The recipe Kayla picked last week was “Elmo’s Hooray, It’s My Birthday Chocolate Cake.” As we were making the cake, Kayla said it should be for my birthday, since mine was the most recent birthday in our family.
So, hooray, it was my birthday last week! We even had enough candles.
(On a side note, I had a terrific birthday last Monday. Aaron, the girls and I went out to dinner, had ice cream and walked to one of our favorite parks. It was a perfect birthday.)
First Day of School
Tuesday was our first official day of school, though it wasn’t much different than most days this summer! Learning together is the norm for us, but it’s always fun to make a big deal out of the start of school in September. Carrying on our tradition we started last year, we camped in our tent (in our yard) Monday night. Once again, it was a perfect night for camping!
Tuesday morning we enjoyed blueberry pancakes for breakfast and then had Bible time together (complete with musical instruments for our praise song). Next we did chores before moving on to the rest of our school time. We recited the pledge of allegiance, and let me tell you, hearing a two-year-old saying the pledge was flat-out adorable! I wish I had videotaped it.
Here’s our first day of school picture:
Kayla used the camera for the first time and took a picture of me, the teacher:
Next was gym class outside—racing, jumping, galloping, throwing, kicking balls, doing somersaults, etc. We played a little wiffleball, but I think Daddy makes a better teacher when it comes to playing ball.
We wrapped up the school morning by building towers with the stacking cubes and practicing numbers, shapes and animals. Madeline said this was her favorite part.
In the afternoon Kayla and I did a reading lesson together, working on words with the short-o vowel sound. She’s turning into quite the little reader!
In the evening, while Aaron was at the men’s prayer service, we had a play date with some good friends at Jameson Park. It was a wonderful, fun-filled day.
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