Creating, Together

Forest wants to be just like his big sister. The other morning, I caught him climbing up a chair to sit next to her at the little table. She was making a hundreds chart. He wanted to color like he sees her doing so often. I snapped a few photos of them working together.

Both of our wee ones are growing so fast!

Heart Kitty

Our sweet, new-ish kitty Kona has a patch of brown fur on her chest that looks like a little heart.

We love our Kona kitty that Sienna picked out all by herself.

November-ish

Lately ...

It's been feeling quite November-ish. We've been thrifting to find treasures for Christmas. But, of course, we've found some new treasures for our little home and for the wee ones, too. 

And, we loved crunching in the Autumn leaves on a local hiking trail yesterday. It was a beautiful day for a hike. 

Our kitties are also working on fattening up for the long Winter ahead. I often find them at the food bowls together and thought it was very sweet, so I thought I'd share a photo of them together.   

Nikki McClure print, framed - $6.99 

John Holt book - $0.50 

Nature's Children - $0.50 

A red wool sweater for Forest - $4.99

Back of sweater 

A handmade sweater w/bear buttons for Forest - $4.99 

A new basket for seasonal books - $3.00 

A very old barn at the beginning of the hiking trail. 

Autumn trees 

A trail through a wet meadow. 

Sienna on the trail. 

Forest on the trail. 

A purple mushroom fit for a fairy to sit upon. 

Sienna's alder cones for the nature table. 

A banana slug. 

Fallen hornet's nest. 

Walking, together. 

Chai and Kona fattening up for Winter.

Happy Autumn!

Mama's Day

I must start off by saying that this blog post may be a little weepy, as I've been reflecting on my day a bit. That said, Forest and I started off our day by going to town to go shopping. We were just going to stop and get a few much needed items: milk, a bar of soap and apple butter. But, I thought why not go over to the Co-op and take a look at the wool mittens. Sienna and Forest are each in need of a new pair for Winter. After no luck with mittens or apple butter, I decided to go thrifting at a little shop nearby instead! Today was Mama's lucky day!

A sweet pair of peg angels to paint with Sienna - $0.49 each 

A vintage prairie dress for Mama (hopefully it will fit) - $6.99 

Four sweet, vintage, handmade placemats - $1.99 each

The other side!

I have to admit, I just love calico prints. I think it will always be my favorite type of fabric. 

And, I found David one of his Christmas gifts for $2.99! I can't wait to share it after Christmas, of course. Now, as I was waiting in line to pay the sweet, little old lady in front of me noticed the dress I was purchasing and told me it was so pretty and it was going to look beautiful on me. This made my day.

Then, I decided to try a Fair Trade shop we have in town for wool mittens. After we were out of the car, I realized it had gone out of business. So, we walked over to the yarn shop just to see if they might have any already made mittens for sale. Well, they didn't. But, we did meet another very sweet, old woman from the Czech Republic that was making a hat for her great granddaughter and she wanted to size Forest's head to get an idea of how much yarn she would need. The store owner was also so nice and invited me back and said she would help me knit the mittens myself (if I purchased my yarn there) for FREE! I'm sure I will go back soon. 

Anyway, all of these by chance meetings today really have me missing my own grandmother very much. I know she would have loved my babies and I wish she could have met them.   

Some other going-ons today. I thought I'd share a few photos of a few posters I put up that were from an old friend and our Mayflower project from yesterday. And of course, a few of my sweet, wee boy eating his lunch today.

 Butterflies!

 Birds!

Animal Tracks!

 The Mayflower. We were learning about what the Pilgrims took with them on the Mayflower. The little flaps show some of their provisions.

And, the sweetest, wee boy!

He loves applesauce and bratwurst. 

Love those chubby cheeks! 

 And, this silly face!

Happy November, friends!

Sienna's Finds

On Monday, me and the wee ones ventured out for a little thrifting in the afternoon. We went to both of our local shops. At the first shop the only find was made by Sienna. When we went to pay for it, the man at the register told her that she could have it for free. Lucky girl!

$0.25, but FREE! 

At the next shop, all finds were also made by Sienna. 

A movie for Forest (he already has the board book) - $0.50

Fairy picture frame - $1.99 

Antique Pilgrim doll - $1.99

She has been having fun introducing her Pilgrim doll to these dolls we found at a garage sale in the summer.

Summer Garage Sale dolls - $0.50 each

And today, is a very dreary, rainy day. We are spending our Thursday homeschool day learning about the Mayflower together. We will share some of our learnings soon!

Halloween Festivities!

This Halloween was quite busy for our little family. We went to a Halloween party hosted by one of Sienna's friends the Friday before, carved pumpkins together on Saturday and went trick-or-treating on Halloween. Phew! Just looking at all those festivities makes me tired.

Sienna and Daddy carving Sienna's pumpkin first! 

Halloween Night! Getting ready to go trick-or-treating with her black kitty, Forest. 

Our pumpkins this year! Sienna decorated the little one for Forest with a marker. The pumpkin next to it was Sienna's from our pea patch (Forest's died) and Sienna designed the face on a piece of paper for David to carve.

The next pumpkin was Sienna's from the farm (she also designed this face for Daddy to carve), then Mama's kitty face and last, Daddy's jack-o-lantern.