"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: