An afternoon at the arboretum

Rob was not the only one at the arboretum today with his camera... We spent the day with the Dutch family - celebrating our very good friend Sebastian's third birthday. We enjoyed our day walking to the arboretum and then hanging out with them at their house. Juliette and Sebastian are the little ones I get to babysit every Friday afternoon, while mama Bianca goes to the Waldorf teacher training. I love the Friday afternoons spent at their house, away from all my chores and finished with homeschooling for the week, enjoying just being with the four children.

I'm excited about the week ahead - we start new circle activities tomorrow, we present Lucy with her recorder and start lessons this week, and keep working on math with the introduction of greater than/less than and working on her fairy tale verse book. I also want to do nature walks every day we can to our little secret garden. Lucy agreed this would be a good idea after she and I visited it on Saturday. We've got to establish our daily outdoor adventure habit now before the cold and rain really set in for good... Plus it is a great time of year for collecting nature's treasures - pine cones, chestnuts, leaves, acorns.