climbing

soccer wrap up

This weekend the kids wraps up their soccer class. J got the ribbon of "most improved" since this is her first time taking soccer while Prime got the "most enthusiastic" ribbon. They have been playing lots of soccer in the back yard just for fun.

fall colors

We had a few mild days of fall and we tried to spend as much time outdoors as we can. One game we enjoyed playing was "meet a tree". The idea came from the book "Sharing nature with Children" by Joseph Cornell where you are taken (eyes closed) to meet your tree. Then you open your eyes and tried to find your tree among the trees. The hard part was trusting the kids to guide me but we found trees are really pretty unique...there was always something that distinguished a particular tree from the rest.

Exploring the trail; my rendition of fall.


What kinds of bug is that? There were so many on the oak tree and on the ground.

At our local cider mill.

Playing with leaves. We tried to catch the leaves too but that was harder than I thought. They fell to the ground super fast. We'll have to try it on a different day maybe.

monkeying around

The kids love monkey bars and quite good at it.

I love this picture of W. This kind of moving circles are tricky. We haven't figured out what the trick is.

making french toast

The kids love french toast so daddy made some for us over the weekend. It was so delicious that J asked daddy for his 'secret' recipe. After writing it down and watching daddy make it over the weekend, J declared early this morning she will make it herself! (that got daddy off the bed in a hurry so he can supervise. :))



I want more, Prime says and sis graciously shared some of hers and off to make some more.

Fun with pumpkin

A couple days ago, the kids drew on the pumpkin. J put hair on her pumpkin too.

It's pretty obvious to know who drew which face. :)

Then over the weekend they started carving or rather cutting. :) First, the kids were not excited over the prospect of carving the pumpkin mostly I think because they were scared to to use the knife but once they got started, daddy says they "couldn't stop". On the very first one, they even tried to drill but I don't think that worked well. Yesterday, I watched them carve this 2nd pumpkin (from our garden, hence the color) and they were both fierce carvers. The 2nd one had lot less scratches compared to the first one.



This is the first one they carved.

weekend (apple,pumpkin,and fuse beads)

apples, apples, and more apples.... We picked: gala, cortland, mutsu ("the best apple" says by a self-claimed "appleholic"), jonagolds and northern spy. I'm hoping to pick Fuji apple next but supposedly the next batch ready to be picked won't be end of November. Brrr!




I just had to post some silly pictures of Prime and his friend. While these two burned energy, J and the little one did fuse beads. The kids liked doing fuse beads so much they requested a bucket of their own and are doing it as I type. :)



Finished product from the weekend: J's and Prime's.