Owls

We did some owl pictures yesterday after looking at lots of pictures of real owls. The kids sketched them out first then did water color or crayon to color them in. I thought they turned out great! I didn't think that Faithy would actually want to do it with us, but she was very excited to do her own big owl picture. :)

Snow Day!

It finally snowed here today! The kids were SO excited to wake up and see flurries out the window....

It wasn't much, but it was the first we've seen so far this season. 

It barely covered the ground, but there was enough to make some snow angels!

It was here and gone again quickly, but hopefully we'll see some more soon.

Flowers in Korea!

A few days ago we went to a little flower market for a field trip with some other homeschool friends...It was probably the BEST smelling place in Korea that I've been to so far. The market was on the 3rd floor and as soon as we walked into the elevator we could smell the sweet flowers. :) It was amazing after just coming in from outside where all you smell is kimchi and fertilizer most of the time! LOL!

Right away the kids had their noses in the flowers!

Me and the crew... I am so blessed. :) We came home with a ton of flowers that we got for amazingly cheap prices to decorated our Thanksgiving table. 

Joy and her sweet friend Kayden...

On the way home we saw 'Batman's Lair!' LOL! Who knew he had a place in Korea?! :)

More Fun With Leaves!

After collecting all of our beautiful leaves, we had to think of something to do with them all!

My little ones are always picking up 'treasures' outside...leaves...rocks...sticks...(the occasional bug) and wanting to save them in the house. I don't care much for piles of these things all over inside the house, so my compromise is that if we bring them in, we have to create with them! So we decided to make some beautiful leaf collages and some fun leaf 'people' too!

I had to add these pictures because I find it so interesting watching my children's skills develop and Faith Elaina (3 1/2) has yet to favor one hand when she writes. I snapped a series of pictures as she was writing her name because I noticed she was switching hands between every letter...

I'm trying not to influence her one way or the other, and I think it's so amazing to watch the process as each child figures it out. It'll be interesting to see what she chooses in the end! :)

I love to ask the kids to tell me about their creations and sometimes write what they tell me on them. This one Faith told me "Three leaves are walking in the sunshine."  :)

Joshua made some cute leaf 'people' too.  :)

Leaf Hunt

Let me start by saying I MISS MY CAMERA!!!  :(  Daddy is having to use it for work for the next couple of weeks...I've been without it for a few days now and using a little point and shoot...and Oh! How I miss my other one! But I'm not going to let it keep me from blogging....  :)

So today, after spending most of the day letting a little one recover from a touch of the flu we desperately needed to get out of the house. This evening we went for a leaf hunt and enjoyed some time at the park. I made a printable that I'm sharing over at www.theprintableshare.com for a 'Leaf Hunt'. I had my preschooler in mind when I made it but all the kids enjoyed it and playing in the leaves.

On their 'Leaf Hunt' pages they had to look for 1 BIG leaf, 3 small leaves, 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 orange and 1 brown. I was surprised that the big kids wanted to do it too, it was certainly too easy for them but they enjoyed it.  :) And thankfully, even though we are late into the Autumn season already, we still managed to find some nice colorful leaves around. 

We started by coloring the leaves on our pages and talking with Faith about what we were going to be looking for. Samuel had one too and just colored all over it...he was happy to be doing what the big kids were doing though.  :)

When it came time for 'hunting', the kids found what they needed for each block and checked it off when they had found it. For my orderly, list loving Joshua, he really enjoyed checking things off his page! :)

Faithy (feeling much better than she did at 3:00 this morning) helped me sort some of our leaves by size and she placed them into rows on the bench.

It ended up being a fun activity (that I hope some of you will enjoy also) and was a great break out of the house that my little crew...missing their Daddy...needed. And I've got no complaints about this amazing fall weather we're having, what a blessing it is to me!

Making Wishes

Beautiful weather in November, 'wishing flowers' everywhere...it was a happy day for this little girl enjoying a bit of God's creation.   :)

I'm thankful for my sweet 3 year old who can make me slow down and see wonder in the simple things, even the seemingly ugly....turns beautiful in her eyes. :)

She told me she was "wishing for a tiny unicorn..."