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Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Saturday, September 4, 2010

September!!!!

You know autumn is near when pumpkin spice lattes are back!

I got my first one this morning...










We took a longer walk around town today- saw a squirrel eating-







Liv was afraid it was going to attack....








Ira showing off her favorite watermelon shirt...








We found a new park- very fun...









With a rubberized track...


































Liv said "bird! Wait for me!" then turned to me and said "mama where you put my wings, unwed to fly"








I love bridges.....


























Everything here is so clean! Even underneath the bridges- no
Litter, no grafitti, nada.... Crazy!







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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Nature walks and dinosaurs...

Liv woke up bright eyed way early... So while the rest of us caught up to her alertness, she played super why on the iPad.

She can correctly identify the entire alphabet in random order and she can choose the correct letter from sets of three.


Liv then made me a birthday cake...


Our first walk of the day- looking for signs of fall....





Collected some twigs for a craft we have planned....


After lunch- and an outfit change or two or three- We went on another walk.... More leaves...


Liv found a heart shaped red one!


Picked this flower from our patio....


Left it for our faeries.....


After looking at some other blogs, And seeing lots of people making tipi dwellings out of sticks and sheets- Ira said- we should use daddy's camera stand, then we don't need sticks or rope!"

So I pulled out an old blanket.... As I draped it, Ira said "no!!! They didn't use plain white! They put symbols on it!"







She added a unicorn, because we are the unicorn clan and she added mobsters to "scare away the evil spirits". I love it because it really showed that she was absorbing all that information from our roadtrip through Montana, South Dakota, etc.







She even added a painted horse...


And a tent for her animals


Liv did some drawing/coloring...


And then we read about dinosaurs...



Sunday, August 29, 2010

FAIRYLAND!!!

We have been looking forward to today all week!

We had plans to head to Fairyland in Oakland! So fun.

The walk through the park to get there... Live was running after birds yelling "wait for meeee! Wait for meeeeee!"





Ira wanted some acorns...





The entrance-


3 little pigs- Ira had her magic key- you turn the key and it tells you a story.


Liv!


The girls went on this ride alone!!!!


And this slide too-


In the belly of the whale...


Carousel for Ira! Luv was too small...





Giant sequoia...


Ira going down the rabbit hole...


Crooked house...





We came home and read our new book...


Then cuddled up to watch another dinosaur documentary...



Wednesday, August 25, 2010

We have been waiting a long time....



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For it to feel like summer! It's sooooo amazing here right now!!!!

We made iced tea....


We danced around to some music....


Set out pennies, honey, juice and a grape to lure some faeries to move in....

We made a new friend... and had races...


and chased grey squirrels...

dug in and inspected some dirt...
found butterflies in the rosemary...

found a caterpillar falling off it's leaf and helped it back up...





played in the sand....
picked flowers (with permission)
and created ways to make younger siblings work for their grapes...

look how careful and graceful my little liv is... she is up on one foot! and dont worry- i was near enough to grab her....
we built faerieland-






Then Ira added unicorn land.....


Now we are trying to figure out how to turn these two humungous heirloom tomatoes into dinner!


After dinner we walked to the park- Jared and Ira ran....