A friend from Dance Class

 Zoe went to meet her friend for a play date. Since the wind got back we went to her friends house. There they played dress-up.

I think they tried on every outfit she had! LOL!

Pretend Play in Our New House

Somehow kids figure out how to use the entire house as a play area. As you can see here there are a couple of things being played in the living room. Austyn has left his army toys all over in front of the fire place. They then proceeded to play famous people with the stuffed animals. They are famous hockey players and other stuffed animals are asking for their autographs and pictures. Other games they have played since we've lived here are house, hospital, and zoo with the stuffed animals.

Here Zoe is posing with one of the stuffed animals while Austyn takes a picture with his camera.

Children's Library

 We took the train downtown to the Children's Library. In the process I got lost underground twice and found local people to be overly helpful and friendly. People I asked for direction went out of their way to make sure that I was going where I wanted to go. Once there the kids gravitated to the computers.

 The library wasn't as large as I had imagined but it was still very impressive.Walking up you see the book shelves with the windows and a fish tank. You can see this in the background of the picture above.

 There are child sized tables and chairs. There is a toddler area that is a bit more private and has couches. 

We spent most of our day here because there was so much to do.

 There are many puzzles, a puppet theater for the kids and one that the librarians use to do puppet shows. Here Zoe is learning how to lace a shoe.

 Austyn spent much of his time playing a computer game on history and then he played with this wall puzzle and right beside him (forgot to get a picture of it) there is a glass, magnetic, boat table. He really enjoyed that.

This train is in the toddler section. Once the babies left Zoe went right to the train and spent a long time arranging and moving the trains around. We attended a drop-in story time. The kids really enjoyed that. There were less children than I expected to be there.

It was the first time that we've been to the library and the kids spent hardly any time looking at books.

Tea Party

Zoe has started to get really into playing tea party. This is her tea party on the floor. She likes to use water and make deserts with play dough. She claims that cleaning it up is fun also since she can pretend that the tea party has been canceled.

Our Tent!

 

  

The kids wanted me to make a tent for them. We couldn't find our tent. We thought we'd put it up in the basement. Instead I got some large sheets and rearranged the furniture in the living room so that the tent could be over the couches. The kids loved it. They played in there all day. I put it up a couple of times since and they love it. We even did some history reading inside the tent. Once Zoe and I fell asleep in there and woke up with our two cats snuggled beside us. In the above picture they each have their favourite stuffed animal with them. Austyn's in his room and Zoe is in hers. Some of the time Austyn had another blanket in between the two rooms. LOL! 

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child." -George Santayana