Pictures: The Park, Ducks and China

Today was a great day. After the kids got all their book work finished we headed to the park. It was a amazing spring day.. although a little cool for me :) .. The kids had a great time. It was fun to see and hear them playing and pretending. "Hurry .. quick... get on! we are fixing to take off!!!" .. "now we are blasting off!" ... and as they climb down onto the ground.. "oh cool.. look . we are on a completly different planet!".. OH the joys of imagination!
Take a minute and see the pics I snapped while we were there.. below i will talk a bit about the rest of our day :)
Arent they the sweetest! AND YES Trixy LOVED going down the slide.


These next three shots I call "Just hanging around" :)





Is it Easter Already? The kids found this egg close to the shore. Sure seems moma duck didnt pick a very good spot.
Catherine took this pic of me and Trixy. It was fine weather if you were running around the playground but for me.. if its not in the 80s its cold..
See the little baby ducks? OH it reminded me of "Make Way for Ducklings"
Getting ready to feed the ducks.
The boys in my new 1950's? round chair waiting with excitment for their show to come on.

After the park,, and before T.V.. we watched a great DVD called "Destination China" If you have seen "Globe Trekker" on TV .. this is that show.. It was wonderful! We got to visit the Silk Road and see a temple fair celebrating the end of silk harvest, a Chinese Opera with a mask changing dancer, saw noodles being made in the market place, an acrobatic school, several markets and all different foods. We learned about the temples they have, and how they worship a god of money (they have many gods like the ancient Greeks and Romans), we floated down the Yangzi River, and watched as they played a domino type game that is the national game of China. The ancient capital of China, Xi'an and the Terra Cotta Soldiers were the last on the trip. There were two words I tried to skip over..not that they were "bad" words.. just something I would like to wait awhile before I explain) .. I also skipped over the part about Chinese Medicines.. they saw the pics but I fastforwarded it through the words.. I like to preview most DVDs like this before I show them but didnt have time for that today. If you are have or are studying China.. check this out at your library.. its GREAT.

After the DVD we read "The Warlords Puppeteers" by Virgina Walton Pilegard Illustrated by Nicolas Debon. Tomorrow we will make our own puppets.. and I will encourage the kids to try to work up a play... usually little encouragement is needed for that :)

We also reviewed some scripture and sang with our Seeds of Praise CD, played dressup, read books on our own and just had one of those GREAT homeschooling days!