Sunday, October 28, 2012

It's a car of course!




"Gamma, Gamma, what's that?" "It's a flannel board Cubby."  I guess even with digital computer programs and Pinterest, etc., sometimes the old fashioned toys are still the best. Cubby stayed occupied for a long time (in 6 year old terms) manipulating shapes on the flannel board. He didn't have enough circles for wheels. He picked the fabric, a few snips and done!  It's a car of course!




Claire is busy in the kitchen making chocolate kiss peanut butter cookies. One of her co-workers has found a new job and they are having a good-bye celebration. Claire's gotten quite the reputation as the Betty Crocker of the group and these cookies were a special request




We had a sign-up event last week for students to choose their dorms for next year and I was unable to attend the last block exchange.  After conferring with JanG., we figured out the proportions for the leaf blocks to go with my pansies. Here are a couple in progress.  The flower blocks are scattered (as they would be in nature) and not aligned in rows.  My next challenge is to figure out how to get the blocks together with the least amount of set-in seams.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Now We are Six

Saturday morning, it was off to the Fiddle Scouts, a newly created music program by The Ten Pound Fiddle.  Kids get hands on opportunities to learn about instruments and music. This month's program was on drums. What 6 year old doesn't like drums? Cubby did ask to leave after about the first 10 minutes of warm up songs but when they split the group into ages 6 and over and he got to go with the big kids, it was so long Gamma Gamma. 

 
Next month's program is about Ukuleles and one of Cubby's favorite people is going to be the "Scout Master". 

Yep, he had a birthday this month. Still haven't quite gotten rid of the training wheels. I'm sure next spring we'll just have to go for it!  Still time to enjoy a few more beautiful Michigan fall days.