Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Winter Break







The cute mushroom ornament I made with Ethan's kindergarten class using an acorn top, cotton swab and part of a twig.

The coyote ornament Ethan and I made in ceramics class

Ethan's best friend from school, Rosa.  Still playing outside, in the dark, after a day of skiing.







The beginnings of the snow cave


Leif likes skiing in very small doses.  Most of the time he prefers to stay home, and we don't try to push it.  He's learning a year earlier than Ethan did.  Justin asked him last Saturday if he wanted to go skiing and Leif replied "no, I'll go on Wednesday."

We had a very quiet and fun winter break.  It snowed soft, fluffy snow almost every day and at one point we had almost 3 feet in our yard.  We had purchased a turkey from a neighbor and stocked up on milk, and had lots of root vegetables in the basement so we didn't need to leave the house except to ski.  We skied to the trails from our house, which was great.   A few days before Christmas we found an engorged tick on Sequoia who, luckily, had been vaccinated for Lyme disease.  We pulled it out and preserved it in alcohol.  Ethan got a microscope for Christmas so of course we looked at the engorged tick under the microscope.  Ethan was delighted with how disgusting it looked. 


Saturday, December 29, 2012

Woodstock Wassail





















We spent a day in Woodstock, VT for their annual Wassail Weekend.  Traditionally, a horse parade would ride through town in the night, and people would light the candles in their windows as they rode by.  Now they have a horse parade in town during the day.  The whole town celebrates with caroling, concerts, kids activities, craft fairs.  It was great fun.  Woodstock is a great town. 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Holidays


Ethan cut the tree this year, after Dad got it started.







Tree lighting at Jericho Center
Painting birch bark on Thanksgiving

Cider in apple mugs

Leif's friend, Poet


Prayer flags made from birch bark


I realized that my posts haven't been emailed to those who asked.  I had the wrong box checked.  But all should be working now.