Natural Attachment

as we continue on with catching up…

On Halloween Eve we went to the Children’s Museum for a puppet show and general fun

catching up part 3 is on its way…

What happened? I was here and then I went away. What has happened in over the last month and a half?

I have decided to take you on a magical media tour, but have broken it up over a few posts, so as to not break any browsers out there!

Let’s begin, shall we?

First, there was playing in the rain

Playing at Arsenal Park with our friend Keira

There were creative endeavors and some dancing on the table

We ‘indexed’ a city. This was especially fun, because if the streets were drawn close to the same width on each card, then you could mix them up and ‘rebuild’ the city in a new way every time.

catching up part 2 is on its way…

We went to the Andy Warhol Museum and the Weekend Art Factory in its basement. We played with Legos, made stained ‘glass’ pictures (loving E’s ’share the road’ sign on his), screen printed and had fun goofing off in the photo booth.

We bused across town for Oh Yeah! ice cream again…this time for breakfast (okay, so really it was late enough to be considered lunch)! On the walk over from our bus stop, I caught a picture of a friendly alien…he lives near Highland and Baum, right next to Abay. When we left Oh Yeah!, we decided to go eat tasty food at none other than Tasty!

The kiddo and I walked around downtown, visited Point State Park for the first time and walked around down by the river for about three hours.

There was watercolour painting at dusk in the driveway. William painted a robot, Elijah got abstract on a piece of cardboard and I painted an anglerfish.

E & I played at War Memorial Park (which had a creek, totally cool) with new radical unschooling friends! Afterwards he and I ate dinner downtown at the Backstage Bar by Katz Plaza and I had to take a picture of the sign that is posted.

Yesterday, we bus hopped to hang out with friends we haven’t seen in awhile. There was fighting, bickering and arguing, as to be expected. There were cars, planes and trains, as to be expected.

Elijah was more interested in the baby’s toys than anything else, I think! Well, actually, there was some scheming by the boys — they were making plans for a sleepover in the near future.

I got to see the adorable and yumm–ily sweet baby girl Banyan (and her mum, Courtney), who I got the pleasure of being midwife to at her birth.

There was crafting of sorts with Dore (he is sporting the best ever vest!), which consisted of using scissors, tape, markers and wooden trains. Poor guy is all blinded by my super bright flash

It was a happy day, if you subtract all the traffic we encountered when our friends drove us back home all the way across the city