#53- Trip to the Bruce

As the days go by some afternoons are hard to fill up time, I've been rather zealous at this or so I thought, we invented a jungle gym out of our ladder, as you saw in the last post made a 'dirt-play-area', and recently tried this pinterest idea my sister sent which seemed ideal for the hot temperature, and zero cost!  Fill up a big container ith water, add plastic toys and some blue and green food colouring, let it freeze for a couple days, then bam! A cool ice sculpture for Isaac to try and chip away at to get his toys.    I only had a hammer and a flat end screw driver, so I hunkered down to show him how to chip away at the ice to get his toys, he was SOOO into this...but of course once I handed the tools over to Isaac, he tossed the screwdriver and just whammed it with a hammer and it immediently broke in half. The creators of this idea said this entertained their toddler for a WHOLE AFTERNOON, Isaac had the thing in smithereens in 15 minutes (which is still a  decent amount of time to keep his attention) Despite me showing him the different techniques of pouring water on it etc, the hammer just seemed the most obvious way to him.

Also went for a visit to see Eric's family, and my opa last weekend.

Green, gold, and blue

Ah, boys and girls, finger up his nose and barretts in her hair. 

Here's a few pics from that and also from other fun events of the month:)

Cousin Maleeah and Rosie

Birthday party for Darryl !

cottage and story time with Auntie Bethany

Ezra & Auntie Katrina (and baby #2!)

Date at the park! like old times, chocolate milk and grapes:)

My opa with the kids looking at pictures on his camera