Park Day

The children worked hard from 9:30-12:00 in order for us to be able to go to the park and meet with 4 other families.  The original idea for the meeting was to try and organize a book club for boys starting about 4th grade.  (There is a girls only book club here - which we have not attended.)  Luckily there was another Mom who felt the same as I  - why don't we include the girls.  So the compromise was to do the same book but we would separate the kids.  The older boys would have a book discussion.  The girls, aged 7-9, will have more of a crafty project and a little discussion pertaining to the book.  Oh yeah, we plan on going through the entire Narnia series.   There will be two younger boys aged 7 that we figured could start out just playing with each other.  If that doesn't work we might be able to do some things with them.  I was thinking of having them draw some pictures about the book that we will be discussing.  We shall see because we have decided to wait until September to begin.  I know why are we meeting now?!  Well we weren't too sure as to when we could begin but since we are finishing out the year it just made sense to wait.  I could see starting if we were not doing a series, this way get the boys used to a discussion because Stephen in the only boy who has ever done a book club.  But we came up with another idea, let's meet periodically throughout the summer for all to feel comfortable with each other!   Happy Day for Stephen, he met someone his own age!!!

So this park has a creek that is way cool.  I saw that the Fish and Game stocks it with trout and you are able to fish here.  I think we need to get some fishing licenses and bring back the fishing poles and have some fun soon!  Here are some photos:

This is where we Mom's sat.  But we were moving around a lot

as we were making sure the children we not floating down river.

This is how steep the bank was.  We thought sitting close

would allow us to see the kids. Not so much.

Stephen enjoying his time.

Picture upstream

Joshua exercising great caution.  View is downstream.

Abigail picking worms out of creek!  My nature girl!