Unbelievably late "U"

Ugh, so unmotivated... until now! Our "U" weeks were quiet. We met people who went to university, Youtubed "Under the Umbrella Tree" videos, sat on upholstery, drove on Uplands Road, walked uphill, felt uncomfortable, understanding, and unhappy, saw a U-Haul truck, unpacked from our trip, untied and unlocked things, saw people who wore uniforms, wore underwear, turned our house upside-down to be painted, Warren continued to be an uncle, and I continued to be an umpire between the kiddos.

Not much to do for Sabbath school for "U" week, so we learned about some undersea creatures:


'Tis the rainy season, so we used our umbrellas a lot:

We went to the beach and found a branch shaped like a "U":

A shell shaped like a "U":

And a rock with a "U" pattern in it:

Madison and Nana made an umbrella:

A ukelele:

A unicycle:

A "U":

Nana helped Madison and Jacob to create these unusual creations using items from under the sea:

They also created this unique boat:

Driving one day, the kids and I saw this truck, with a "District of Ucluelet" image on it:

And we colored. Oh, did we color. We colored ukari monkeys, umbrella birds, and urials:

Unicorns:

The universe:

(Sea) urchins:

Umbrellas:

And ukeleles and unicycles:

We visited the Nanaimo Museum where we toured the new coal mining exhibit, learning how it was to work underground:

We parked in an underground parkade:

Had fun playing UNO:

Madison and Jacob made universe "U" paper plate crafts:

At the beginning of the 2 weeks, I printed this UPS coloring book for Jacob and he worked everyday on it until it was finished:

We baked (pineapple) upside-down cake:

In our travels, we drove by these places:

And finally, we used utensils while baking and cooking in the kitchen:

Tuckered out "T"

After we got home from our Topeka trip, I was slammed with a wicked cold that had me down all week (and I am still not recovered from). Thus, this week was quieter than usual, and we spent every day around the house. We ate tuna and tomatoes, turkey and toast. We tried to log on a TY toy that Madison was given named "Totally Troy".

We pulled out the tangrams:

Madison went back to art class and continues to learn about this artist:

The kids chose tattoos to put on:

Madsy and I began a new book series to read together:

We did TONS of "T" colouring pages:

It took a lot of teamwork to create this treasure:

Warren was so happy to get home to his beloved tea:

Since I was sick, he grabbed a few groceries from our favourite food store:

The kids and I played with a new magnetic time book:

They created a tissue paper "T" paper plate craft for our wall collection:

Madison and Jacob played with Lego for hours and hours this week (I was so thankful for that). At one point, we decided to build the Titanic, but halfway through, J. claimed the pieces to make a different boat so this is as far as we got:

The kids (and friends) used tools while playing one of their favourite games called "Fix-It":

We played with a new spinning top:

Despite the rain on Saturday, we drove up to Top Bridge Park, walked the trails and crossed the towering suspension bridge:

One of our quiet activities was making a totem pole craft:

The Tower of Babel was our Sabbath school activity theme last week (forgot to post pic):

Madison and Jacob turned J's favourite truck into a tow truck:

Throughout the week, Jacob kept on adding more trees to his "tree forest":

We did a new-to-us tree puzzle:

Madsy and I played Trouble:

Jacob created a truck using tissue paper:

This week for Sabbath school, our theme was The Twelve Disciples:

Jacob loves colouring right now, so he coloured an extra picture:

We played Twister:

And tried the letter version that we found at a thrift store:

There were so many more things that were on our list to do this week, but with getting back from our trip, and my being so sick, we just didn't. We were going to visit a train station, walk on train tracks, visit real totem poles, and go to Tiger Lily Farm. I also wanted to get the kids out on our trampoline and tie-dye some t-shirts.