Monday, June 8, 2009

Giving Barnaby his Lesson

Middle Creek Montessori School

Last weekend, we headed out the the Middle Creek Montessori school's Spring Fling & Fundraiser. This is the school we chose for Madigan last winter, she starts September 1st. In our minds, it was the only one for her. It's on 8 acres or so (can't remember really how many, but I think I'm close) and has an ice rank, rabbits, 2 goats, a sheep and chickens. The outdoor area is amazing (should have taken photos of that).
Here's is Madigan's classroom. There was 3 to choose from, but we just loved this one.Madigan had a blast walking around and checking out each "lesson". She's very excited about her new school. She'll be going 3 half days a week to start.
There's a turtle in the classroom (all above mentioned animals are outside).




It turns out we know quite a few families that go to Middle Creek- that's alwasy nice to know going into it.

Ice Cream

Back a few weeks ago when we thought Summer was finally here, we ate lots of ice cream. Oh, how she loves her ice cream....




Saturday, June 6, 2009

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

First Camping Trip 2009

We took the holiday weekend to go camping. We only went one night, but it was perfect. The weather was nice and the sun was out. The Nelson family joined us. Beckett and Walker are 4 and 5 (almost 5 and 6) and they're very nice to Madigan. We camped near Quake Lake and headed into Yellowstone for a few hours after lunch. Madigan asked over and over to see animals-which we did-bison, elk, Canadian geese, etc. We also saw a moose and baby moose just a few campsites over from ours!


This was the first time we saw bison swimming/crossing a river. It was pretty cool.
Madigan dug the geysers, especially when we figured out we had the Ergo carrier to put her in.


Baby bison!

Madigan helping unload the van. She asked over and over to go camping when we left the campspot. And on the way home she kept saying she wanted to go camping again. We don't bring any toys, but she finds stuff to do in the woods herself. She's a fabulous camper!

Reading the tools catalog