Hope you had a wonderful Halloween!
Author Archives: Allyson
homemade play-do
We’ve been battling a cough around here (no flu thankfully… just an ugly-sounding cough). So a few weeks ago, Averhy missed several days of school even though she wasn’t sick enough to stay in bed all day – which means we had to get creative in keeping busy inside the house. One day we made […]
rainy day writing
One rainy day in September, Averhy sat down at the living room table and just began writing and drawing this… The translation: 3 Ducks 4 Chickens. I want to see a duck. There I seen a roosters. 5 Roosters. I see goats. 6 Goats. Pretty impressive for the first month of kindergarten, I think…
applesauce
A few weeks ago we visited Aunt Linda on a beautiful Sunday afternoon to make applesauce. The girls had a great time picking apples (and LOTS of red raspberries), helping peel and slice them with the apple-peeler-corer-slicer machine, and sampling the finished product. I think we’ll have to make this a fall tradition. Afterward, we […]
Averhy’s first day of kindergarten!
Of course, Averhy was up early and dressed before I even rolled out of bed… so she had plenty of time to watch a little PBS kids before we left for school! …and the girls dutifully cheesed it up for the camera, after which Eden decided to do a little running-dance-thing around Averhy to show […]
a fun visit to Grandi’s summer home in Canada… part 2
Next to Grandi’s house is a large hay field, and Eden liked picking flowers each time that we walked past it on our way to the beach. Toward the end of our week at Grandi’s house, we drove up to a quiet lake (through many giant potholes on the way) and also went to Bobo’s […]