Slice of Heaven

Delight in the Everyday

This school year we significantly cut back our extracurricular activities. We made the decision (providentially) to scale back, and while Dennis' mom was with us this fall, we wouldn't have been able to function otherwise. However it has continued to be a blessing for our family, as we have not been running around every day and evening of the week for soccer, or coop, or swimming, and have been able to enjoy more leisure time as a family and on school without so much pressure! I know it won't always be this way, but it has been a nice break.

This week we got to go on our first field trip of the year, to a local plantation and working farm. Mostly we got to interact with the animals. The kids were given buckets of feed (bits of bread and veggie scraps) and were allowed in the pens with most of the animals and got to pet all of them. Leah enjoyed feeding the goats and the potbellied pigs:

Bay enjoyed running in circles with "Pickles" the pig, and he also found the farm cat. Bay was not too keen on feeding the animals, he didn't like touching the decaying veggie scraps!

Eric was not too excited about feeding the animals, but he had a good time anyways. It was a gorgeous fall day.

Eric, Bay, and friend, Elliott standing by the koi pond in the beautiful gardens surrounding the plantation house.

I had to take a picture of the boys one morning doing math. They looked to be concentrating so hard.

And like I said, more family time has meant more time to play games together. We just taught the kids "Mexican Train" in dominoes. It is one of Dennis' and my favorite games.



And lastly for today's post, Bay finally lost his front tooth that had turned gray when he busted it about 4 years ago! He was so excited to loose that tooth!