Dad's away, so the kids will play!

Adam flew to Calgary this weekend to visit his friends Chris and Monica, who just moved there in January. So, while he was away, I decided to do a few things with the kids that I don't always find the time to do.

Nahla loves to "science experiments" AKA putting a whole  bunch of stuff in a bowl to see what will happen. Today she discovered (without prompting) that baking soda and vinegar make a grand explosion! As you can see, she thought it was great, but Ty was a wee bit uncertain of what to think.

While at Rona picking up some new light bulbs, we say the beginning of the gardening stuff. We decided that it was time to plant our seeds. The kids each chose their favourites, and we started planting when we got home. They chose carrots, cucumber, spinach, green beans and we got a free thing of squash.

First, they poured the water on the pellets...

Apparently, Tyran got thirsty half way through!

Then we planted the seeds, marked them with coloured popsicle sticks, and covered them up to germinate in the window. I wonder how many will take? Hopefully not too many because we really don't have that much garden space!

Then, in the name of valentines, we made some gluten free pink heart cookies (coloured with beet powder). The kids love mixing, rolling, cutting and cooking.

We put little marshmallows in the center to give them a little extra pizazze!!

And, what is a weekend of fun without a romp at the dog park. Nahla pushed her doll in the doll stroller, while Tyran whined about not wanting to ride his strider, but also not wanting Nahla to ride it! Lexy ran and played, and was lucky enough to meet a husky friend to run with. Lucky her, she also got a play date with another husky friend later in the day.

Then, of course, I had to do some cleaning, cooking and re-organizing. This is my newest project! I am ever so proud of my spice rack. Last weekend I took the kids to IKEA to buy a whole lot of spice jars, and I slowly organized through the week. Today, we went ot RONA and bought some 2x4's to stagger them so that I can easily read the beautiful labels!!! Can you tell that I am excited?

It has been a great weekend, but I am so glad to be going to the airport to pick up Adam tomorrow morning so that we can finish off the family day long weekend with some true family fun...hopefully we will have some snow to play in!