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We were heading home from preschool and saw a bunch of wild turkeys. I decided to make a U-turn so Nathan can take a closer look. Glad I had a decent camera phone but should probably keep a real camera around even on errands like picking up from school from now on. Glad that wild life is still so accessible after we moved away from the zoo.


The fact that this one got off the sidewalk gave me an excuse to slow down enough to take this photo.

Being Green with Orange Stuff

In an effort to reduce our carbon footprint - I tried to use up the pumpkins that both kids brought home instead of chucking them into the garbage --> landfill like I did in previous years. Incidentally, both kids' schools provided recipes in their newsletters so I adapted those to make these:


Omitting at least one cup of sugar from each recipe still gave the muffins and bread just the right amount of sweetness as the farm gave us sugar-pie pumpkins (a sweeter variety). I also added some ground flax and walnuts to the pumpkin bread to up the nutrition and the kids loved both creations. Don't forget to toast the seeds to make pumpkins seeds for a nutritious snack !

Pumpkin patch albums

Both kids went to the same pumpkin patch but with different schools on different days with a different parent. Being an actual preschool and not a daycare, Nathan's preschool requires parent participation on field trips. Basically a child doesn't get to attend a field trip if the parent can't come because they simply don't have enough teachers to watch the very young 3 yr-olds. So you can see Nathan's album has a lot more posed photos as Daddy only needed to watch one child; while Mommy, as a volunteer, was chaperoning a bunch of very active kids and took mostly candids.