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June 4, 2009

The Perfect Day

Filed under: Life,Photographs,Radical Unschooling,Unschlog — Tags: free range children, Oh Yeah! Ice Cream, park, Radical Unschooling, rain, Spak Brothers pizza, typical day, unschlog, Village Candy, War Memorial Park — michele james-parham @ 2:31 pm

In complete contrast to how our Tuesday went, yesterday was the perfect day. The only caveat, it’s not possible to repeat it everyday.

We started our day off by eating vegan pizza & seitan wings at Spak Brothers. Next, we topped it off with vegan ice cream goodness at Oh Yeah!. Then we found ourselves drenched like river rats at the War Memorial Park in Sewickley, PA. Man were we wet (and cold), but damn it was FUN!

running through the soggy field

having a ball in the rain

jumping in puddles

me & my soaked dreads crossing the bridge

E & I playing in the creek in the rain

completely soaked Elijah

headed back to the creek

E & William at the creek (loving the color saturation & blur on this)

my dirty, wet & blurry feet

E, mixing down a track with daddy while he stays warm & dries off

After getting completely soaked, cold and exploring a bit, we packed up and headed over to the old tyme candy & soda shop, Village Candy. There we bought far more sugar than 10 of us needed!

We came home, heated leftover pizza and gathered some other goodies (including new candy & soda) then sat around watching Kung Fu Panda.

It was a perfect day. Life is Good!

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April 18, 2009

Some Spring-i-ness & Such

Filed under: Life,Photographs,Radical Unschooling,Unschlog — Tags: free range children, Freedom, park, Radical Unschooling, rollie-pollies, typical day, unschlog — michele james-parham @ 2:26 pm

I finally got a picture of the Toothless Wonder up from awhile ago.

We’ve been doing some hanging out on the balcony enjoying each other’s company and nicer weather.

Finding the magic in ‘simple’ yet significant creatures…

Leaving our mark, if only temporarily…

We’ve been taking little walks here and there. Catching a breeze is always nice.

We’ve had a huge fascination with our shadows lately. Elijah has named his shadow, Friend.

We decided to check out the Andrew Bayne Memorial Park & Library in Bellevue, PA the other day. It is a really nice playground…the kind from my childhood, with ‘real’ toys made of metal and ‘real’ ground underneath them instead of that weird squishy stuff. The library is an old converted house (by converted I mean, loaded with bookshelves) and we can use our Carnegie Library cards there!

We had fun at the park kicking a ball around, blowing bubbles, watching some skateboarders and finding new friends. We also found out that merry-go-rounds can be dizzying.

Yay for Spring!

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September 7, 2008

Week in Review 3

Filed under: Life,Radical Unschooling,Unschlog — Tags: crafts, friends, ice cream, museum, park, Radical Unschooling, typical day, unschlog — michele james-parham @ 8:08 pm

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.

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