From Fall to Winter

He is following in his brother and sister's footsteps with the love of sticks; oh wait, that's pretty much every kid.

They were carefully pulling some needles from the tree for a collection.

Floating the milkweed pod.

More cranberry cutting.

Balancing and weighing all at once. That food scale has seen better days.

Inchimals!

Modeling clay; great for all ages!

We were spoiled with some unseasonably warm weather.

Closet flashlight coloring.

Abe and his first finger painting experience. 

He was tentative at first but warmed up to it quickly enough.

Sir Knight, Tavin, making his own helmet.

"Hi!"

Bar soap "whittling."

The pasta, bean and rice sensory bin; we hadn't played with this since before Abe.

He couldn't get enough of the sensory bin play.

These two crack me up; they are fun to observe when they're in their own little worlds.

A little fun in the late afternoon sun.

Little artists.

A Cranberry Thanksgiving! We got together with our CM Nature group again; I read aloud the book Cranberry Thanksgiving and then we conducted experiments with the cranberries as well as strung them with popcorn.

The first snow! Abe wasn't a fan. I'm sorry little guy.

 Tavin was quite fond of the snow.

 Matilda thought it was a bit of alright.

 Baking, baking, always baking. Making muffins.

 Chopping apples for apple pie.

 Sampling the lemons for the lemon cookies.

 We are going to miss this cupboard when we move. I'm sure we will find many fun and exciting things about our new home but we do have fond memories playing in the kitchen cupboards here. Bittersweet.

Pumpkins and More!

Overdue blog posts coming your way!

Way back in October we went to That Pickin Patch for our Halloween pumpkins.

Not a true pumpkin patch but let's face it, that farm equipment in the background was fun to see close up and I bet you've never been to a pumpkin patch with it's own dog in a tree.

Making cut-out cookies with Abe and Matilda. Abe had his own ingredients to mix.

Matilda mixed the real ingredients for a little while...

 ...and cut out the dough.

 Playing with the balance scale.

 Chopping up some sausage for a breakfast casserole.

Cutting some cranberries for cranberry bread.

 Glitter glue creations.

We went on a guided tour at the Music Museum with our CM Nature group.

 Fun at the park after our museum trip.

 Carving and decorating our pumpkins. Ted was a good sport as he did most of the work.

 Painting pumpkins is a little more our speed.

Ms. Frizzle, Batman and Elsa. What a combination!

 Abraham the Dragon!

 The dragon attacking Batman!

 Group photo with our CM Nature group; we had a costume party.

 Little Bo Peep sharing a story.