Jonas' Art

We've known forever that Jonas has an eye for photography, and he absolutely loves taking pictures.  Sometimes I just give him the camera and tell him to take pictures so that he'll leave me alone.  Here are some of his recent ones.  It's convenient that he has such a willing model.













 

Jonas' Art: Lego Collection

Here we have a small collection of some of Jonas' lego photography.


















































 

Hiking The French Creek Trails

Back when it was still warm, we were doing a fair amount of hiking.  It's amazing how just being in nature can sometimes inspire the imagination in such a profound way.

 We went with Oma, Heidi and Rachel.  Indie, Shrapnel, Ringo and Star came along, too.  They sniffed out a lot of interested things for us.  Very helpful.



  During this particular hike, J & L were both describing their imaginary worlds to us.  It was fantastic.  Lavi and Heidi were fairies -in a wood nymph kind of way- and had to hide behind trees.



We had to be very quite because the giants might hear us and they'd be angry that we were in their woods without permission.  This led to frequent shushing from Lavinia.  



Jonas told us about the mermaids in the creek, and how to look in just the right way to see them.  He and Lavinia seemed to be the only ones who could do this properly.

 There were some bridges and wooden paths, and it turns out that trolls and noddalins (look like gnomes, act like bridge-trolls) lived under them. A good round of stomping let them know 
we were there, so not to worry. We saw what I thought was a caterpillar, but turned out to be a 
spy for the giants.  This was very bad, but we were able to run to the car fast enough, and got 
away safely.

First Post!

So this is the first post of our blog! YAY! It seems to be the hip thing for home/unshoolers to blog about their home/unschooling. Wanting not to be one-uped by all you fantastic overachieving super mamas, I'll have to start blogging.
I have nothing exceptional to blog today, so Ill just post some pictures of the kids doing want unschoolers do best - playing! (that is, of course, learning through play.)




Jonas dressed up as Puss-In-Boots, probably after watching shrek 2. It's amazing that a disney movie sparked such imaginetive play for him. Prior to this he'd rarely dressed up on his own, and only role played with lego guys.




Lavinia in a powdered wig. Not holding court or anything, just hanging out in it.



Building lego ships. This is pretty much what he does all day, or at least, it's all he wants to do.



Lavinia being cute and loving having her picture taken.



Jonas actually holding still long enough to take a picture.