School & Cooking

I tried to take more pictures this week of some fun school stuff we did!

On Wednesday we talked a little about the continent of Europe and worked on the puzzle.  I mentioned that Papa went to Europe when I was little and Madilynn said, "How did you know?"and "Did he have to leave really early?"  also brought up some funny conversations about his missing the ship at one of the stops and Madilynn concluded..."Papa needed to look at his watch!"  So funny!

We went outside for Science and explored the yard with the magnifying glass. 

She drew her discoveries in her science notebook:

Thursday afternoon I decided I had to do something with all the apples we still had from the orchard.  I made these clusters as a visual to me of how many pies or tarts I could make.  I ended up peeling and cooking the apples in cinnamon, sugar, and spice then freezing them in the right amount for a pie.  It was fun, hope it works...

Having snack on Thursday afternoon...

Just wanted a couple of pictures of what snack time is like right now at these ages!

Then while I cooked the apples they were off to play dress up...Eva too!

She's taking a couple of steps here and there I think mostly when I'm not looking - ha!

I also made these creamy rosemary potatoes from the Pioneer Woman cookbook for supper - yum!

We've decided Friday is our cooking/baking day together.  This week we decided to use up some more of those apples and make apple turnovers for breakfast!

We used a recipe from Madilynn's cookbook that was pretty simple and she could even read it!

Mixing up the icing...

Elizabeth helped me make scrambled eggs...(I'm glad that shaker was about empty cause she ended up dunking it in the eggs!)

and whisking...

the results??

Madilynn said, "Best Breakfast ever!" yea success!!

They all loved it and ate it all!

Apple Turnover a.k.a. mini apple pie

Later that morning I caught Eva with the library bag (with a couple of books in it) up on her shoulder and trying to open the door...guess she was ready to go!

Elizabeth so beautiful in her new (used to be Madilynn's) sparkle shirt!  She is so big!