Ottawa

Arts & Crafts

Motivation for coming to the museum - riding the motorcycle

Selling veg to my sis

Sledding on the river

Beavertails ... to be continued in the car .. too cold to eat outside!

Pizza Delivery

Here's a boy who makes pizza 'all by myself!'

The Help - Starring Chippy

He insisted in vacuuming all by himself, so finally I relented.  He vacuumed for about an hour and did the entire downstairs!! 

The Artist - Starring Chippy

This boy is just loving drawing and colouring right now.  I'm sure labelling is not required, but I will label them anyway...

The only way we helped was by suggesting adding a nose or mouth etc. to Chippette's pictures.  The boat he did all by himself without us even around!

Mais-o

This is the picture that was on the door at the Big House.

Maisie ... and he even tried writing her name down the side.

A Boat

Blue Feet

Annual blue feet / hand pictures.  I was surprised that Chippy had as much fun as he did.  I was pretty strict with the rules during this, and he still did a great job!

Chippy's Breakfast

Creating a Monster

I am creating a monster!  I found an app for Chippy to try and he loves it!  He needed a little help to get started and then he was able to navigate through counting, choosing colours and shapes, and playing concentration.  Interestingly, he created a strategy to concentration all by himself - he'd choose the first card and then the card after.  If that didn't match, he'd choose the first card and then the card second over.  He continued like that until he found a match.  Pretty smart for a little kid!

Now I just have to train him to keep grubby fingers off the iPad!

Mickey Mouse

This boy drew a picture of Mickey Mouse at Disney World and Brenda posted it on the door of the big house!