Happy Birthday to Grandma Pat!! Grandpa surprised Grandma with an additional month in Alabama for the winter!
Grandma Pat reading all of the cards that the kiddos made her while Auntie Holly was visiting:)
A walk in the orchard and a picture next to the bee hives!
Fun at the Big Park!
Sunnies
A monarch caterpillar munching on milkweed in our backyard.
Sigh. Poor Ayson "accidentally" let go of his balloon and we all watched it float away and disappear. Mommy was not happy and told Ayson that a bird might mistake the balloon for food, eat the balloon, then die. THEN Mommy would have to fine Ayson a TON of money for killing a bird! :)
Mommy's "office" on Tuesday afternoon! Visiting grassland restoration sites in Niagara County.
We also made time to visit the Stella Niagara Preserve along the Niagara River!
https://wnylc.org/land-protection/current-projects/stella-niagara-preserve/
"It was an important canoe landing site for the region’s Haudenosaunee who used the Niagara River for transport, trade and fishing. Known locally as the five-mile meadow, it is the very spot where the British landed in 1813 to capture Fort Niagara"
Sgraffito-style murals by Józef Sławiński
The landing
More Sgraffito-style murals in the Chapel
On Thursday, Grandma, Grandpa, and the kiddos visited Mommy at work:)
Thursday evening we went to the school to see Ayson's classroom and meet his teacher, Mrs Kolbeck.
Ayson's desk is the one Addie is touching.
The class schedule
Mrs Kolbeck sent Ayson a postcard telling him how excited she was for the start of the new school year!
Friday goodbye pictures for Grandma and Grandpa. Thanks for the visit Grandma and Grandpa AND for watching the kiddos for us during the week!!!!
Goodbye hugs
Kisses
Massive sunflower in our garden!!!
The bees on the sunflower are probably from the hives in the orchard :)
A monarch chrysalis!!!
Perspective...
Peppers are looking fabulous!
Yum!
Daddy and Ayson looking for a nut using the metal detector. Crazy Ayson went outside without a shirt on!
So Mommy helped him out by sharing her sweatshirt :)
Sunset
The first football game of the season. Ayson ran the ball ~ 40 yards down the field before going out of bounds.
A visit to Pratts Falls Saturday afternoon. Checking out the Touch Me Not crop :)
A carpet of Touch Me Nots!
Can you find all three monarch caterpillars in the below picture? One has just a head peaking over a leaf.
Black berries and wild cucumber
Apples!!!
JUST as we started our walk and were too far to turn around and go back to the truck, Ayson tells us that he is HUNGRY!!! So, that is why we foraged in the fields for berries and apples :)
Ayson lost another tooth on Sunday!!
Look closely! The chrysalis is starting to become clear and you can just make out some orange of the monarch butterfly wing!!!!
Stormy sky Sunday afternoon!
The bees LOVE the sunflowers!
Addie wore the leopard outfit all day and our little leopard was NOT happy that Mommy would not bounce with her anymore - notice the pout face!
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