Understood Betsy & Apple Crumble

If you’ve read Understood Betsy, you know there is a line in the book about Northern Spy apples. 🍎(When Gemma narrated this chapter, she called them “Ninja apples.”) This month, Trader Joe’s has a yummy apple crumble, and it’s made with...

How do you like them apples?😏

Mad Science Show at Library

Gemma playing the Meux Home piano

 Gemma got to play the Meux Home’s 100 year old piano. Some famous people have played that piano, including Ethel Barrymore.😉 

Camera Obscura

Several years ago, I bought Thames & Kosmos’s $100 Milestones of Science kit because it was 50% off. Gemma discovered it, and here she is with her first experiment from the box: a camera obscura. Instead of rubber bands and and glue, we simplified the experiment and taped everything. Also, we didn’t have tracing paper, but we did have a piece of a sewing pattern, which was perfect.

Year 2: A Drawing

“A prince playing fetch with his royal dog.”

Just for funsies...

I wish these onesies had been available when my daughter was an infant...

In Our Backyard

While I was cleaning out my classroom, my husband was watching our daughter do this.