And here I am again..lol
I was reading some unschooling lists and saw that a few people had blogs on here and then I remebered that I thought I had a blog on here as well....lol...too funny.
I am using this as a way to share our going ons with our family and friends and a place to have all of our "stuff" documented in some way.
This week has been amazing...we have done so many cool things. We went on a 6 hr hike on the bike trails of oshawa where we saw so many cool things. Lots of different kinds of birds including the pileated woodpecker. Which is what the pic on the right is... it was so awesome to see! amazing...it took my breath away, I have never ever saw anything like it. We also saw some other kinds of hawks but we have to go back another day and watch them to figure out what it was. We also went snake hunting to no avail..THIS TIME...lol..last week we caught two garter snakes on our adventures. We also spent some time looking under logs to see what we could see. It found lots of cool creepy crawlies. We have spent the week also playing music together. The kids have gotten to singing along while I play guitar. Its nice to be good enough now that they can do that...Heather plays the harmonica right along ..its great! The kids have been playing outside alot with the neighbourhood kids and Tyler has met a few new friends that he has been playing basketball with in the back park. He really enjoys it. We bought a volleyball net as well this week, and putting it up today becuase Ashleigh said she wanted to learn to play and I have been wanting to play as well. It should be fun, were hoping to get it up today if something else doesnt come up.
Yesterday Tyler did some baking and made the most amazing Rasin bran muffins. He is reayll great at measurments and is able to now bake things completely on his own. He even washes his dishes! lol He also started yet another business yesterday. Another Lemon juice stand. He used his allowance money from last week and bought juice, cups and a juice jug and spent a n hour making a sign and organzing when he was going to do it all. He also added up how much it cost him and how much he would have to charge for each juice so that he could make a profit. He decided .50 cents a cup would give him a profit if he sold 10 cups per container. It was really cool listening to him come up with a business plan. He has also got the neighbourhood kids involved though I am not sure how is planning on paying them *smiles*
We watched and incrediable show yesterday on Canadian sharks. I didnt even know we have sharks in our waters...but we do. It was amazing to watch...Tyler really enjoyed it. Ashleigh is working hard on finishing a grade one math book she got or her birthday from her grandmother...she likes working with numbers. Its amazing to me that when she picked it up on her own she will spend hours doing it, but when we "did" school and I would sit her down to do math she would do 5 questions and have a melt down. Its GREAT to unschooling working for us. It took awhile to deschool, but I really think were coming through the other end. We have spent alot of time this week in the garden. Pulling weeds from the flower beds and planting our vegetable seeds for this season. The girls and I had a lengthy discussion yesterday while pulling weeds about the friends and the foes of the garden. We dug up a grub which started our conversation. We also talked about the parts of the plant and why plants need roots...which lead to a discussion on how plants get their food. It was a great discussion.
Tyler has been reading stuart little on his own this week and enjoying it. He is comparing it to the movies and finding that it is very different. We talked about that for a bit and how LOTR is alot different from the book and movies. Tyler has also been writing in his own journal which has been going really well....every night he writes out in point form what he did that day. Its great for him to be able to look back and see what he has done. He seems to enjoy it. Heather and Ashleigh have been playing alot together as well . Last night we watched the American Inventor, it was a great show and Tyler really enjoyed it.
Ashleigh has turned 6! which was a great adventure! we made a worm cake and had a family birthday party with her.
Here is Ash and Heather and THE cake!

It was a fun day and Ashleigh loved her cake. We also went to the zoo in the last two weeks, and are actully going again tommorow. We went while Ash was away at Grandma's and Grandpas. Tyler and Heather had a great time at the Mandrills.

We also went on a hike to the river where the kids built a boat first out of wood and string they found and then half a water barrel they found up river. It was very cool watching them try and get it to float and then with the rain barrel, getting in and trying to balance it. LOL..it was a great time that ended in soaked clothes and giggles. Heather mostly looked for worms.

All and all it has been a pretty great couple of weeks. we even went to dinner at grandma and papas walkers. Here we all are and cousin grayson.

Oliver is doing amazing. He is 11 pounds already and almost 7 weeks old. I cannot beleive how fast time goes. He is smiling and laughing and just being amazing. Were already getting almost a full nights sleep and were just so happy he is here in our family. Well I will sign off, and go get some housework done while Oliver sleeps. Be well all and I will update in a few days.

The Walkers