Unschooling Snapshots

Monday, January 17, 2011

chocolate factory tour

Free chocolate factory tour with free samples!

playing with reflections in the window

Maya in her Harry Potter glasses (we're going to Wizarding World of Harry Potter later this week).

Saturday, January 15, 2011

some pictures from this week

side-by-side online multiplayer gaming

making more paper toys

figuring out how many pages we need to read each day to finish Sorcerer's Stone before our trip

Some of Seth's paper kaiju toys

various things people made or have been looking at this week

making Harry Potter character plaster casts

I cleaned out Maya's closet this week and freed up an extra shelf, which she decorated

balancing hangers

Friday, January 7, 2011

this week, in no particular order

Entrance to a dollhouse Maya made for her Lalaloopsy miniature

Inside the dollhouse

Our friend Chooj's New Years' Day birthday party

Seth and Chooj

Maya and Hayes

Riley took some of his Christmas money to buy a second-hand airsoft gun from a friend.

Maya playing out stories with a mix of toys and her homemade paper doll characters

Highlights Magazine's Which Way USA: Florida puzzle/activity book and map. We'll be there for real in a couple of weeks!!!

Maya listening to music & working on a picture in the kitchen. In the background: Riley's Eiffel Tower model and work-in-progress K'Next roller coaster.

Climb-a-mountain-do-a-flip. I used to do this with Maya a lot when she was younger and overwhelmed -- she would hold my hands, walk up my legs, then flip over backwards. She loved it, and the hanging by her arms and being upside down seemed to help her re-center. I forget sometimes how much it helped. Here, I was getting really frustrated, but then remembered with Seth just before we both melted down!

Seth's photo of Matt and me laughing over a funny Facebook thread