Flat Nate & Buzz

Harvest time!!  we finally got some ripe eggplant and zucchini before the kids picked them.  We made vegetable lasagna for dinner.   You both liked it because it had lots of sauce and cheese!!

We went for one of our weekend hikes.  This time we went to Mendon Ponds to feed the birds.   Mendon Ponds was formed by glaciers and is now a nature preserve.

New York state usually has some really great Maple syrup.  This year there really wasn't much of a season for it since it got too warm too quickly, but here is a huge Sugar maple!

Mendon Ponds is a nature preserve, so although there is miles of hiking trails throughout it, they ask that you do not take plants, animals or other materials from the park, that you carry out what you carry in and respect the bird houses and nature education centers there are all around Mendon Ponds. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendon_Ponds_Park

 

Checking out the bacteria growing on the piece of wood in one of the education stations.

Here is one of the Chicka-a-dee's eating sunflower seeds from my hand.  We tried to get them to eat near you, but they weren't very cooperative.  This is the only one that we got to eat from our hands that day.  There's too many other natural sources of food for them to come to humans.

Sharon's Sensory garden has me wanting to make a sensory garden of our own.  A project for next Spring and Summer.  There are wind chimes, hand chimes, odorous plants, and small waterfall in the sensory garden.  The kids love the wind chimes the most.

This was picnic we went to for the play group that we belong to.  we had a great time.   there were two bounce houses, a playground, water balloons and TONS of snack food.  We are in the first row, sitting down, to the left of the middle.




Here we are at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.  We were having lunch in the cafeteria with some of our friends, when Izzy discovered you and wanted to play.  we played house, and fed you lunch and told you a story about an alligator that went to bed with Izzy.

Longwood gardens was fun.  We went for another great hike, IKEA and Please Touch Museum.  we almost lost you there, so we decided to leave you in the car.

We had a great time with you and taking you around to some fun places.  We hope you had a good time too!!