This is Motherhood

This is motherhood.

I do a dinosaur maze...

...And my child claims my prize.

Welcome to Summer Reading! 

Scarecrow Festival

Last weekend we went to a Scarecrow Festival at the Gardens at Thanksgiving Point.

Lots of scarecrows were brought in by different people or organizations, a lot from different departments at Thanksgiving Point.  It was fun to see what people came up with.

As we walked down the hill, Jr. Jr. kept exclaiming, "Wow.  There are so many scarecrows.  Why are there so many scarecrows?"  We had to keep telling him, "It's because this is the Scarecrow Festival."
One of the scarecrows was advertising the upcoming Dia de Los Muertos celebration this coming Friday and Saturday (October 23-24) at the Show Barn.  I thought that was a clever way of advertising it.

They had other activities going on, though they had to take the bounce houses down because of the weather.

Burlap Maze

We also finally got our chance to check out the Temple of Artemis Garden, new because of the "Wonders of the World" this Summer.

Because of the drizzly rain, when we went home we had hot chocolate, grilled cheese sandwiches, and tomato bisque from a can.

It was a good family day.

Panda or Polar Bear?

International Polar Bear Day, February 27.  Nichole decided to be a polar bear trainer.  The boys were her polar bears.

 I printed out some polar bear mazes for the kids to do.

 

Jr. found and showed me a book with a polar bear in it.

Jr. also couldn't remember if it was panda or polar bear day.  He kept suggesting activities that had to do with pandas.  "No, we're not going to watch Kung Fu Panda.  It's Polar Bear Day, not Panda Day."

We did have fun with our celebrating... even if it wasn't Panda Day.