October update

We've had another busy month! We went with some other homeschoolers to the butterfly exhibit at a local university and the kids had a blast. It wasn't as awesome as the one we went to in Rochester but this was lovely too.

The butterfly shown with Will really took a liking to him and sat on his hand for quite some time. People were going up to Will like he was a display and taking his picture with the butterfly.

Of course October includes a trip to the pumpkin patch. We picked out our pumpkins as well as took a hay ride through the pumpkin patch. I'm ashamed to admit we ran out of time for a fall nature walk on one of the lovely trails around our community. It just never happened - not that we weren't doing other things but it's disappointing anyway. It has been a beautiful fall - that is until it snowed 6 cm the other day. Yes, that's right. It's like it never left. Actually, it's warmed up since then and the snow's practically gone now. The paper claimed it's a "false winter". Whatever.

In other news, Will participated in his first Karate tournament and won a pretty cool 3rd place trophy. He had a good time and Zanna and I cheered him on!

The kids and I did manage to make leaf cookies this year. I cut out the shapes and the kids have a blast decorating them with sprinkles and stuff. They were yummy too!!

I've tried this month to tap into my creative juices and did a few fun things - I took a mixed media art class at a local art store and made 2 wall decorations for Christmas I'm looking forward to putting up. I've also done another "year in the life" scrapbook workshop - 2 nights, layouts per month done for me, tools, stamps, ink, etc provided and I leave with a scrapbook I just need to journal and put in a picture. Pretty slick, looks great, documents memories through the year. Works for me!!

I will have to do the Halloween update in the next one - I'm running out of time now.