Waterpark at Home

Since it's finally hot outside, today we got out what will be our primary form of summer entertainment, the pirate pool complete with water sprinkler cannons and blow up pirate hats, shields and swords.  I blew it up with a hand pump and it took forever but the kids loved it!



Tidbits

It's been a while since I've posted but I will try and catch everyone up.  Gavin is officially out of preschool!  Last week was his last week and it was a very busy one.  He had a water play day and a day he got to ride his bike around with his friends.  The ice cream truck even stopped by to celebrate!  Gavin made a book for his teacher that had a picture and sentence for all the things he enjoyed doing with her this year and we made oatmeal raison cookies for both his teacher and the intern who is in his class.

Gavin had some time to play with his knights (as always).  He's been setting up some fairly elaborate battles lately.  Here he had a battle between his Schleich knights and his Playmobil knights.

Austin enjoys the knights too!

I don't think we really posted anything about Mother's Day but I got a reorganized pantry!  We have a nice big pantry but the shelves where 24 inches deep so everything got shoved to the back and lost.  I've been asking for shelves that would be less deep and stretch around the sides in a 'L' shape and Steven built it for Mother's Day.  He did a great job and it works perfectly!  This weekend I got the change to paint it so now it is officially done!  Here are the pictures.  No more lost food here!

We have enjoyed Memorial Day!  Yesterday we went to the local air show and watched the airplanes.  This was the first year we took Austin and I wasn't sure how he would do with all the noise but he did really well and seemed to like watching the planes.  When we got home Dad grilled outside.

This morning we went to the Memorial Day parade and then we took naps and then we went to friends house for some pool and sprinkler fun (and more grilling!).  Dad and Gavin even got a little fishing in since they have a lake behind their house.

I'm not sure what this move was about.

We've still been reading.  We read about cicadas in our Christian Liberty Nature Reader since they have started making their appearance this week.  We also read about prairie animals. 

We are also reading two books that have short stories in them.  We read The Elephant Child by Rudyard Kipling and a Billy and Blaze story.  At night we are still reading Lightfoot.

Rock Pets

Gavin and Austin painted rock pets yesterday.  Gavin painted a frog and Austin painted a turtle.  Today we took our pictures with them and I sprayed them with clear arcylic spray paint so we can put them in the garden!

Gavin's was turning out so cute with all the pretty colors and then he did this:

Here's the finished project.

Today we played with Play-Doh.

Gavin always has a story to go with his creations.  He's more into imprints that creating things.

Austin loves the water table again this year.  Our art smock is coming in handy!

And, Austin got out the tunnel to play with!

We finished Charlotte's Web today at lunch.  Gavin wasn't at all bothered by the fact that Charlotte dies at the end.  I kind of thought he wouldn't be.

Last week we read through the Magic Tree House Book Good Morning Gorillas.  These books are okay.  The first books in the series are good and have a lot of factual information in the story but as the series goes on they get more and more irrelevant.

Yesterday we started Lightfoot:The Story of an Indian Boy by Katherine Shippen.  It's copyright date is 1950 and I can't find a picture of it but it's about a little boy growing up in an Iroquois village.