March

March snow. It leaves as quickly as it comes, and it's nice and wet so we can make anything! 

The flannel story board as we do our annual read-through of Mark for lent. Can you tell which story is represented in each picture?

The first co-op family retreat! Lots of gaga ball, and a nice date-hike on the cliffs (sounds like a murder mystery in the making...) while the kids were busy playing with friends and other adults were around to keep an eye out!

Is someone hibernating in there?!

Daniel left for a conference in Boston right after the retreat. He stopped by this Make Way for Ducklings park and saw some cool buildings - the east coast buildings are much older than in the midwest!

The children have enjoyed and done well in their piano lessons with Ms. Tanya. They practice each morning for 5 minutes after they brush their teeth and wash their breakfast bowl. 

Hard at work!

Daniel's favorite thing about March: Maple sap boiling! He and the kids built this wood stove with the neighbor's bricks and mud cement:

A spring hike at French Park:

Spring Break visit to the Science Museum - race a famous athlete!

Daniel's other favorite part of March: the birthdays! The chickens are 1, and he is 45!! Mama had a brilliant idea: chick-shaped peeps for the hens' birthday cake!

Emperor Frederick Barbarosa is Papa's hen

Frida's hen is Lyla, the little French one

Rooster, the Austrolorp, belongs to Lukas

Robin the Easter Egger (Auricana/Americana) used to
be the shared-ownership chicken. She was given to
Mama after Agatha Christie, her Buff Orpington, died.

Theo named Dot for the one dot she had
 on top of her head as a day-old chick.
Now she's covered in them! 

A birthday walk - see how we match the kissing trees?!