Fall at our house...

Visit with cousins...

We had a lovely visit with cousins at their beautiful woodsy home this afternoon. Kids had fun swimming in their pool with a friendly frog. :)

Farm Fest 2014

Play-Doh Princess

I walked in to see L proudly wearing the Play-Doh princess crown her big sister made for her today... We will probably be washing/combing play-doh out of those curls for a while! 

Bird News

We were excited to see a Pileated Woodpecker today! He was so busy eating bugs out of an old stump that he let me sneak up and take a bunch of great pictures! :)  J looked him up in the bird book and she said, "it's a boy because of the extra red stripe on his face". :)

Spring time RipStiking

Poems K is memorizing this cold week:

Stars

How countlessly they congregate
O'er our tumultuous snow,
Which flows in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow!--

As if with keenness for our fate,
Our faltering few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at dawn,--

And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.

by Robert Frost

A Patch of Old Snow

There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.

It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I've forgotten --
If I ever read it.

by Robert Frost