Our Friday!

On Friday we had a busy day! We all biked to school and brought K there then headed home. We packed up the car and got ready and once K was done we headed out right away. We went to Springridge Farms about 1 hour from here. It was great!

When we got there we split up! I went with 2 baskets to the picking area and the kids and Arnold went to the kids area. They had a blast playing around. About 1 hour or so later they hit up the bathrooms and came to meet me with the picking. It worked out well. Arnold went and picked up 2 more baskets for the boys and they had a blast picking strawberries. I think K was so surprised that you could eat the berries while standing in the field!

Once we finished up there the kids went back to the play area and I went to the car with the berries. I got to look through their gift area and it was BEAUTIFUL!!! I loved it. I stopped at the kids area to see if they were hungry and got in line (just in time) and picked up something for Arnold and I to share and 2 'sand pail' lunches for the kids. They mucked up my sandwich so I got a free strawberry blossom... SOOOOOO good.

Ok now enjoy all the photos:






























(Me WAY into the field)






















The boys in the field:


































Back in the play area:












The tour the boys went on (while I got food ready):






























My Strawberry Blossom... SOOOOOOOOO good:










The sign outside the bathrooms:




Once we got home from the strawberry farm we had supper and Arnold went to floor hockey and I got the kids ready. We headed out to the "show park" and got to see a movie. Here's the photos I got from that day:













We got home from the movie around 11:30pm or so. It was a LONG day! But soo much fun!

A Peak at the Zoo!

Our crazy weekend started on Thursday with Arnold taking the day off of work so that he could go to the class trip to the zoo. Here are a few photos from the zoo with the kids:

















They had a blast!

Our New Family Thing

Since Saturday last week we started to do some walking. Every night I wanted to get out so while the weather was nice we walked to the park down the road. Tomorrow night is movie night there so it's now the "Show Park".

It has worked out that we go for our walks right after Supper. We even had the C&C group come with us on Monday. It wasn't a long time there but walking is better than nothing.

Wednesday night we didn't get to go (Kids Klub) but we have managed all the other nights.

I took a few photos on the way there and home from the park:












(this house was bought a few weeks ago, gutted and now this!)





















I tried for a while to get these photos! I could never focus on him while he was moving so I 'fudged' the next two photos:





This one however I'm not sure how I did it but I *LOVE* it!!












As you can see we are trying to teach Q how to ride a bike. Right now we are focusing on steering! We have manged to get him to bike on his own home (if you help him with what foot to push on). We are getting there slowly. Hopefully in a few weeks we should have it down pat!


Funny Story:

A few weeks ago I went for a run and passed the grave yard and saw a bunch of stones and the area in front of them looking like this:



At first glance I had to laugh. It looked like the people who had passed away had 'escaped'. haha! I later came to find out (about 1 week later) that they were done to look like this:






Today we are Strawberry picking so we will see how much energy we have. But I have to say, the best strawberry ever was last night's first berry off the plant here at the house. I took some time last week working on making flower baskets for the front of the house, and it included 2 strawberry plants. I LOVE them! I'm getting some berries. The best (and first) was last night and it tasted perfect! Here's some photos of it:






This is K's favourite thing! It measures water from the rain fall. We got it a few weeks ago at a community thing. It's so cool! He checks it ALL the time!




The best Strawberry EVER!


My hopeful strawberry!

I'll post photos of strawberry picking as soon as I can.

Q's ST Week #8 - Last one!

Today was the last ST for Q this session. We have now started our 2 months off. Sometime in August/Sept 2010 we will be getting a call for our new assessment!

Our homework for today's session was to bring in a bag with some 'toys' for the ST to talk about with Q. We put it in Q's "Bulk Barn" bag, so that brought on some work play! Q pulled out his toys. Which included a "hammer", "camera", "elephant", "glasses" and a "doctor's/dentist's tool". He used all of his words and came out with things like "I have a ______". I was happy with it.

Right after this they played with the balloons. There were 4 today. One had on it "hearts", another had a number "two" and a different one had the number "one" on it as well as the last one had animals on it (we didn't get that far but I think storks with babies, elephants and bears). They "pumped" up the "air" in the "balloon" and talk about how each of the main thins on the balloon were getting "bigger" or "big" and eventually they "take balloon off", and "let it go!". It was fun for them!

Q and his ST went to the kitchen and got a glass of water. Q is having issues with his saliva building up in his mouth and forgets to swallow! So today they had a cup and practice feeling the swallow in their throats and how to do it without liquid. This is something they want us to work on this summer.

Then they read a book about "mess" in the "house" and the "mud" tracks all over the place. Eventually it was found out that "Daddy" made the "mess".

Once the book was over they played a matching game. Q's not the best at it and was really 'dancing' around today but that's ok. He did just fine.

We headed out with a letter with some things to work on this summer and a good luck! I'm hoping our assessment in August shows our hard work paying off!!!!

GOGGLES!!

The boys started their 2nd round of swimming lessons. I'm super excited that they love it so much! They are total fish when in the water. I have had the joy of bringing them every single Thursday for lessons and watching them improve and have a blast! This week Arnold is blessed with staying home (It's Kylers Zoo trip at school) and will bringing the boys to their swimming lessons. I'm not sure what makes the boys more excited... having their dad there or getting to change in the BOYS bathroom!!! It's so cool!

Last week we went and bought some new 'bathing suit shirts' and while we were there I couldn't resist the cute goggles I found. I figured if they used them for swimming lessons I could supply them with their own.

I didn't get any photos of them with their goggles on last Thursday but I managed to snag a few of them in the tub trying them out.

Check out my fish!

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