Call Day #20, 9/30/13

Claire is spending a few days at Nanny and Papa's so Eleanor and I got some special time together today.  We are reading a book this week about sheep, so we made a shepherd's pie.  Eleanor helps cook.

Mashing potatoes.

 I declared it "movie and pajama day."  Eleanor thought that was a great idea.  We watched the Little House on the Prairie movie.  It was much longer than I thought it would be, but it was really good.  She learned plenty about what it was like to be a pioneer moving to unsettled land.

Jedi baby.  Light saber from birthday party this weekend.

I had promised Eleanor playground time after we did a bit of schoolwork.  We went to a nearby private school since I'd been told they didn't mind sharing their playground after hours.  Turns out there were still lots of people around.  So, we did our schoolwork on an unused grassy spot far from the playground.

Next, we went to the local public school whose playground she had spotted as we drove past last week.  It wasn't busy.  She loved swinging around on this thing.

And we played a geography game!  I'd name a state and she'd run to it.  She kept asking for hard ones since I usually start with the ones she knows already.  It was fun to see she could readily identify the states where our last two books of the week took place, Kansas and Michigan.  Love her exuberance in running around!