After reunion, Mina came for a visit - her first for summer holidays!! We thoroughly enjoyed having the her over and we did lots of activities together.
Here Pepere is helping sort out a Marble Mania that Suzanne had dropped off earlier. It was fairly complicated but the instructions were clear so Mina portioned out the pieces and Pepere put them where they belonged.
We took Mina to the Ellis Bird Farm. Needless to say, her favorite part was the goats. There were two large females and four small ones and she was able to get them to eat grass
from her hand.
She used the sidewalk chalks creatively on the large patch of asphalt out back, read books and rode her bike as well. Pepere was preparing the poles needed for relocating the fence.
Mina and I had some crafting time as well. We made these bracelets using paperclips, beads and a metal charm. She worked diligently with her own idea and only needed a bit of help with the clasp.
We created these bottle cap necklaces as well. We started with a few left over bottle caps that were leftover from reunion. We experimented until we found a way to flatten them. It would seem that bottle caps that have actually been crimped onto a bottle are more difficult to flatten than those that have not. We persevered and managed to flatten a few. As you can see we kept a few as they were so we could fill them with interesting stuff. We printed words off the internet, added beads and bling and then filled them with clear dimensional paint. Once they were dry we added danglies and jump rings for attaching to the string.
Window clings!! These were created using the leftover from my project of applying window cling to the basement windows so we could leave the curtains open for the light without feeling like we were in a fish bowl. Worked very well!! I bought the rolls at the dollar store so it was also inexpensive. The leftover was about 5" wide and I thought they would make great window clings!! They do! We drew our images on quarter sheets of scrap bond paper, placed our small pieces of window cling material over it and coloured our images with Sharpie markers!! Worked perfectly!
Mina did a few free hand with a variety of themes. I was more structured with mine and outlined them with black for a more stained glass look!!
We did make one card and I started several serendipity pieces. The card got delivered to the kind neighbour that let us pick his nanking cherries and the serendipities are still on my desk - well dried by now.
Thursday night, Suzanne dropped off Kale. That gave them the opportunity to have a weekend off and the chance for Kale to spend some time with us as well. He played Duplos on the coffee table with Pepere quite a bit and was quite OK with playing the pick up game once it was time for bed.
Here they are both ready for bed having their bedtime snack. Pepere toasted the waffles and I cut them to specifications!! They waffles were soon gone and then it was off to bed. They slept well and were not up any morning before 8 am. Kale actually slept until after 11 am the first day so we just moved right into lunch.
Kale loved Pepere's trailer and liked climbing in and out of it. The kids played with the spray bottles and made bubbles too.
One evening Mina and Kale found some time to play together in the family room while we were preparing supper.
Kale enjoyed the park - especially learning to climb the rope ladder, playing Duplos and checking out Pepere's garage - especially the tools and the buckets!!
Sunday evening Suzanne came for them and decided to stay the night to avoid the weekend traffic. They next morning they did a good job of getting packed up and on the road.
It was a great visit! We did take the rest of the day off and had subs for supper!!
Therese
