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| The new playground!! It is gorgeous :0) |
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| Another angle |
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| Josie, Tess & Bri loved the creek & mud the most - somehow all my pictures are taken outside! I guess it was just so nice I never made it back inside ;0) The big girls - 4 or 5 eight year olds spent most of their time in there dressing up & painting! |
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| Bri, Alona, Tess & Gigi cooking up something yummy! We had a lot of visitors, too, which was so fun! |
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| Silas observes the cooking action |
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| Miss Jamie & Gigi playing a fun garden game |
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| Silas & Zach working hard on their drawings |
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| Ezra building a cool block town! |
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| Ben works on his block town - the tongue helps ;0) |
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| Isaac is "fixing the pipes in my bathroom so my house won't flood"! |
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| Ahhhh, a quiet corner to curl up with a good book |
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| Rachel gets all the animals ready for the flood! (maybe the pipes were really leaking - good thing Isaac was working on it!) |
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| Isaac working with tangrams |
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| Ben exploring various textures in playdough |
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| Ruth must think I'm really really old!! |
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| Silas adds the final touches to the pipes - while Ruth read the owner's manual ;0) |
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| Do I look funny through that prism?? |
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| Another mud day! |
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| Josie found a lovely feather for her hair, and is making a delicious pot of stone soup on this chilly day....good day for bikes, though....see them all lined up behind her? |
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| We have a great mud puddle creek for water! |
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| Jamie is full of awesome riddles - and Ella, Rachel & Zach LOVE them!! |
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| No Playschool last week - time to pick up Abbie from the airport! |
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| She survived New Zealand AND Montana - Josie (& all of us!) are SO glad to have her home again :0) Her next stop is Michigan next month to do some midwifery apprenticeship! |
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| The boys loved these water beads as pretend food |
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| Perfect weather last week for bike day & mud kitchen! |
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| The creek had just enough water to supply the kitchen ;0) |
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| Painting with water is always easy fun! |
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| Animals moving into their new home! |
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| Building a maze for Ruby May (Rachel's guinea pig!) |
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| 2 x 2! But, was there a train track in the Noah's Ark story?? :0) |
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| Isaac figured out the logic puzzle - Miss Jamie offered her assistance! |
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| The boys building swords with the new workbench |
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| Tissue paper collage like Eric Carle (we read The Little Seed today) |
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| Starting work on "Pharoah's Temple" |
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| Zach working on a big wooden sword! |
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| Light table play - so easy! It's just a plastic bin w/ twinkle lights inside...we also put some water beads on top & those were really a hit :0) Dollar Tree find.... |
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| Kian adds a few finishing touches |
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| And, the sword fight! Fortunately it was short & no one lost any limbs - I think they decided about the time I did that it wasn't a good idea ;0) |
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| Funny girls with their saran wrap heads! |
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| "Frozen" play - they all seemed to know just what to do - except Josie & Ben! Guess we're a bit behind the times ;0) |
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| Everyone is sleeping - at least 4 or 5 of them! Ella is directing the show! |
