"K" week kookiness

Despite our worry that "K" would be a slow week, we have had lots of fun discovering "K" adventures! We have used our kettle, keys and knives, given (and received) kisses, played with a friend named Kaeden, cooked and baked in the kitchen, and increased our knowledge in different ways, as always.

We made key lime pie for dessert:

Discovered a kumquat:

Spied this guest towel in a relative's house:

Scored a box of Krispy Kreme donuts from a fundraising event:

They have since all been eaten and enjoyed:

Made Kool-Aid playdoh:

Driven many kilometers, as usual:

Bought a Kit Kat bar to share:

And Kinder Eggs, too:

Madison and Jacob made their "K" kernel craft:

We ate turkey keilbassa for lunch one day:

Read "K" books:

Ate THE.BEST.CEREAL.EVER:

Spied this little guy at Nana's house:

Mads and I found 2 awesome kaleidescope websites:

We made sandwiches on kaiser buns:

Warren and I drank some kahlua and milk after the kiddos were in bed:

Had chicken kabobs for dinner one night:

We jogged through "J"

A week late, here is what we got up to in our second week of "J":

We read jaguar books:

Madison went on a sleepover to her friend, Jaia's house:

We read books about Japan:

Warren and I went on a dinner date:

We read more "J" books:

Bought Jell-O pudding:

Finished off our jellybean puzzle:

And ate some jellybeans, too!:

Jacob worked on some jet pictures:

We saw our friend Jill:

Jacob snuggled with Grandad AKA John:

Madison was jumping for joy that she finished her whole Math workbook for Grade 2:

Her and I finished projects on Japan and jaguars:

She even practiced learning how to juggle:

We met friends at Jumping Jiminy's:

Jumping through "J"

So far in "J" weeks, Daddy jogged along Jinglepot Road, Mommy talked to Aunt Jo on the phone, we listened to the Jazz Putamayo for Kids CD, drank juice, listened to the song "I've Got the Joy Joy Joy Down in My Heart", Mads has done "J" worksheets, had a horse lesson with her teacher Jessica where she learned to jump Lyric (the horse), and we all ate jam sandwiches.

The youngest member of our family is of course, Jacob:

We tried (and didn't enjoy) jicama:

Mads continued to love joke books:

Our trampoline was set up again after winter and the kids loved jumping on it:

We stopped in at JYSK:

And a jewellry store:

Jacob rode on the jet at the park:

And made a jellyfish craft:

We worked on a new jellybean puzzle:

And watched some "J" DVDs from the library:

The kids made a jewelled "J" craft:

Mads and I learned how to jazz dance from a DVD (Jacob was on my back while I learned AND took this photo):

"I" ends.

For the rest of "I" week, we ate international foods (tacos, curry, lamb pitas); Madison's phonics book focused on inventors as a theme; we drove the Island Highway A LOT; and we...

Played "I Spy BINGO":

Mads did her projects on Iceland and iguanas:

We watched "instant insects" hatch:

Insects instantly emerged!

We drank iced tea:

Baked icebox cookies:

Jacob and I read these "I Spy" books:

Jacob was inventive with drawing train tracks for the train he had just cut and glued:

The kids glued inuksuk pictures, and Mads was wearing her insect t-shirt when she posed:

Mads and I played "Double Take" - a fun memory card game about insects:

We watched DVDs about insects:

Read books about them:

May 5 happened this week, so we found this book and talked about when a country gets their independence, and celebrates the date each year:

The kiddos turned into climbing imps:

Mads pulled her best imagination pose:

An interesting craft was sugar cube igloos:

Mads did a book report about the book "Ice Wreck":

We learned more about icebergs by making our own:

Here are the books Mads used for her research projects:

And more "I" library books. We had fun learning Italian words and seeing how similar many of them are to our English words:

Life on our Island was fun and full of learning as always!