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Getting Back to Normal

April 19, 2013 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

I arrived home Sunday afternoon with the four children who went with me to America, and it is so good to be back!  I don’t know if I’ll get around to posting any pictures of the trip or not; I haven’t even looked at them yet.  Just to let you know we’re all still alive and well, here are a few pictures from this week.  Baby got sick on the way home; as we crossed the equator, he started vomiting.  Two days later he finally got well, just in time for all the rest of us, except Gayle, to come down with it.  Now, I think we’re all well–sure hope so!  We did manage to get a week’s worth of school done this week, and Monday, before the plague hit in force, we did some harvesting.

This evening–nearly bedtime, and the boys are having fun playing games with each other.

An aunt sent these fire truck sets to the little boys. They love them! Thank you much–you know who you are.

Monday was our only sunny day since we got home. The boys got all our pumpkins harvested for the year. I had them wash them and lay them out in the sun to cure. Now it’s raining–we should have put them under cover!

The boys found this “horse mushroom” yesterday–about 10 inches in diameter! It’s edible, so we had it for supper.Today for Science, I read about magnets to the littler boys.  There were a few experiments to do, and they had fun playing with the magnets.  One of the bigger boys discovered something fun he could make the magnets do–see this quick video!  Grandma, this is especially for you.  For some reason, the arrow you usually click to watch a youTube video isn’t showing up for me, but if you click on the video it’ll start playing.

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Boys, Homeschooling, Video

Napenape

December 25, 2012 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

Today was Christmas Day.  We didn’t have anyone to spend the day with, so we decided to go to a beach we hadn’t been to before.  Napenape (pronounced nappy-nap) is just south of the Hurunui River.  It is a beautiful beach!  It always amazes us how different each beach is from all others.  We thoroughly enjoyed spending time there and relaxing this afternoon.

Looking down the hill, across the Hurunui River towards Cheviot (on the other side of the hills)

Hills on the way to the sea

The beach road at Napenape

Napenape beach

We had a picnic for lunch

The boys found this baby shag

On the way to the end of the beach, the boys climbed this little hill. The day was quite misty at first.

This cliff marked the end of the beach we could walk today! The tide was near high.

Baby loved the rocky beach!

About to grab the camera (and taste it!)

Gayle and some of the boys climbed the cliff

We played tic-tac-toe

The mist cleared shortly before we left

On the way out, we stopped so the boys could investigate a spring

They said the spring water tasted good.

 

Filed Under: Away From Home Tagged With: Canterbury, Napenape, Ocean, Video

Another Musical Baby!

December 8, 2012 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

Every one of our children has loved singing and music, and it looks as though this baby is no exception!  One of the children found a CD they hadn’t listened to in awhile, yesterday, and put it in the CD player.  It was Eduard Klassen, playing hymns on the Paraguayan folk harp, which is very beautiful music.  Baby loved it–see his reaction below!

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Baby, Nathan, Video

Dead Boring Concert

November 10, 2012 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

The annual Dead Boring (homeschool writing group) concert was on October 13th this year.  I’ve finally managed to get the videos I took of our children’s contribution uploaded to YouTube so I can put them on here.  Enjoy!

 

 

Filed Under: Away From Home Tagged With: Dead Boring Concert, Video

He’s Crawling

September 16, 2012 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

Baby is crawling already!  He’s been getting around for a few weeks already, pulling himself along on his tummy by his arms, but today he’s nearly given that up in favor of crawling the normal way.  This is the earliest we’ve had one crawling–he is 5 months and 22 days,  about 3 days earlier than our previous earliest.  Looks like a busy life ahead, if this is any indication.

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Baby, Nathan, Video

Music

September 3, 2012 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

Last evening I came into the living room and found Gayle and the two youngest at the piano.  The second-youngest had told his daddy that he wanted to sing him “a beautiful song”.  Totally spontaneously, he was singing, “Jesus is on the cross” and playing the piano to accompany himself.  It was so sweet that I grabbed the camera to record the scene!  The blurry places in the video are just because the light was dim.

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Children, Joseph, Video

Shags

August 29, 2012 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

After our hike around the Kaikoura Peninsula Sunday, when we were waiting for Gayle to bring the van back around to pick us up, the children who were with me, and I, were quite amused by the sounds of the shags going to bed in the tree above us.  A shag is a large bird that lives along the coast; I think they eat fish.  They sleep in trees, and when each one comes in for the night they apparently have to discuss the day!  The sounds they make are so funny that I tried to capture them in this video so you can enjoy it, too.

Filed Under: Away From Home Tagged With: Birds, Canterbury, Kaikoura, Video

Baby is Talking!

July 1, 2012 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

Our baby is really trying to communicate now.  He turned three months old last week, and is getting more fun every day.  His coos are more of a growl right now.  The other morning I got a video of him, and tonight I actually found time to share it here!  So glad for the occasional Sunday that we come home from church before 5:00!

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Baby, Nathan, Video

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