Buh-bye "B"!

A little late on this one as my laptop is dying a slow and unpredictable death.

Yesterday marked the end of a full "B" 2 weeks.

As a recap to our fun, let's start with those I don't have photos of...

We blew bubbles outside, ate blueberries and bananas, bought something, went to Beban Pool, continued a bottle drive for a young man here with cancer (we have collected about 20 big garbage bags full!), played badminton, Mads rode her bike, we ate burgers, visited the bank, bought bug stamps from the post office, Jacob watched lots of "Bob the Builder" DVDs from the library, listened to music played on the banjo by our favourite librarian, Mads did a "bat" research project, we wrote an alliteration sentence for "B" and...

ate buttermilk pancakes with blueberry sauce and bananas on top:

Jacob did beading with Nana and made me a lovely necklace to wear "forever," he said:

Mads wore braids to church (keep in mind I took the pic at the very end of the day, and here she is bent over an intense game of "Boy-Girl"!):

the kids and I found an awesome old boat (called the Benjamin Daniel!) tucked back off of the road:

and as always, our life was led by the Bible:

"B" thus far.

Still playing catch-up. Here are a few of our "B" weeks' adventures thus far:

We had lunch at "Bagels N' More":

took the bus to the mall:

wore our boots a lot (January winter on the West Coast!):

made some bubble wrap "B"'s for a letter craft:

Mads went to a birthday party for one of her best buds:

went bowling as a family:

ate dinner at a "B" restaurant in town:

visited the beach:

walked the access to the beach that was 280 steps down, and the same back up:

baked banana muffins:

Mads wore butterfly hair clips:

...with her butterfly dress:

Jacob covered himself in body butter from the Body Shop:

and played with bowls of bubbles:

tried our hand at baking buttermilk bannock (not so tasty!):

we built block towers:

created beautiful "B" butterflies:

threaded buttons:

took a look at a book that had braille:

played tons of board games:

loved playing Boggle:

listened to Black Beauty on a read-a-long CD:

J. tried his hand at our new BINGO game:

read books, books, and more books:

continued watching the Black Stallion series:

and decorated our learning area with butterflies:

Backing up.

We should start at the beginning. Our adventure started in January with... where else? The letter "A".

During this 2 week period, we swam at an aquatic centre, Madison went to art class, we ate at ABC Family Restaurant, Warren built an awesome aircraft carrier out of Duplo, we watched an animal DVD ("Homeward Bound"), we visited an aquarium store:

baked applesauce muffins, and:

and apple pancakes and acorn squash, made an "A" alliteration sentence, read through some of our Arch book selection:

Madison made an alligator craft:

and did a coordinating alligator research project, she and Warren continued reading through the Animal Ark book series, had an alarm adventure at our local rec centre, began an "Animal World" science module, took a trip to the local airport:

and did "A" worksheets and crafts: