This week we ate popcorn, peas, pretzels, pudding, pears, pineapple, and potatoes. We practiced on bikes and scooters and Plasma cars. We did planting projects and painting projects. We wore pajamas and heard Puccini music. We all worked on a parables project that might be put on a poster!
Jacob and I visited the pet store and saw puppies:
We saw beautiful beds of pansies in Parksville:
We went to the sandcastle competition in Parksville and saw this guy:
And had a quick play at the playground where Daddy and Mads pretended to be pilots:
Jacob and I made parrots:
And popped into this store (try saying it 5 times, fast!):
Dinner at Nana and Grandad's was at a pretty pink table:
And we ate pizza, pina coladas, and pavlova for dessert:
Mads and I played a game of Payday:
We read more "P" books:
Nana (Patricia Plunkett) posed for a picture next to the perennial peacock display in Parksville on Pym Street:
Madison recently has made the shift from markers to loving pencil crayons for colouring:
Running Mads back and forth to horse camp meant we had to gas up at Petro-Can:
We went to the 4-H barn and the kids pet alpacas, sheep, goats, a donkey, a calf, and a bunny:
While there, we saw pigs of the pink variety...
...and the pot-bellied variety:
Jacob shocked Mads and I when he said "Mom, look a plow, take a picture of me in front of it!" For a while now, he has protested at having his photo taken!
The barn also displayed our provincial flag:
Nana shared these flower pictures with us (petunias, primulas, and poppies):
She also saved tomatoes for Mads and Jacob to pick:
This week was our "Picnic Week". We had a picnic every day! First picnic was rained out so it was indoors, picnics 2-4 were at playgrounds, and the last picnic was at Piper's Lagoon:
After all of those picnics, our family heirloom picnic blanket needed washing:
Jacob wore his pirate shirt:
We painted plant pots:
And tried our hand at plaster of paris:
Jacob played Playful Patterns at church:
This is what happens when Playmobil vehicles meet big sister's Playmobil horse barn:
While Mads was at camp, we took Jacob here:
Mads tried out Nana's pogo stick:
I tried to get us in to meet a community policeman but had to settle for a picture of the patrol car:
With our hot weather, it has been nice to cool off in the wading pools:
I wrote a bunch of postcards and the kids helped me mail them:
We made (sweet) potato pancakes:
We picked up Madison's pottery from last week's camp:
Our best pals here in Nanaimo moved away this week, and we gave them some presents:
One of the mama's gifts was from here:
Madison did her very best printing on some prodigal son activities at church:
Meet Pteranodon, Jacob's prized possession:
I used puff pastry while making a new blueberry turnover recipe:
Also made pumpkin cheese pie:
What would "P" week be without mention and a photo of Puppy, the beloved stuffie of Jacob:
Jacob and Daddy did puzzles:
Jacob enjoyed doing these ones on his own, though, with just a little bit of help:
This week was jam-packed, as you can see. If we had another week of "P", we would have liked to visit a few provincial parks (one of which is Petroglyph Park), go to the post office, see a show at the Port Theatre, take a ferry to Protection Island, eat peanut butter or potstickers, build something with popsicle sticks, play with play-dough, perhaps attempt paper mache, do a puppet show, eat out at Pita Pit or Penny's Palapa, and watch some "P" movies - "Pit Pony", "Peter Pan", "Prince and the Pauper", or "Pete's Dragon", perhaps?
