September seems eons ago now, but I'm determined to catch up to December by the new year. It was a decent month, full of celebrations, though now the Delta variant had hit so we were back to more precautions. We celebrated the Chinese Mid-Autumn holiday with some traditional foods, but with a slight twist on the traditional mooncake. I also took Naomi and Isaac out to see the moon. My camera doesn't take great moon photos, but it was very pretty. We also celebrated our church's two-year anniversary and Pluto's birthday.
Isaac also had his next field trip to the apple farm. The kids just stormed through, but he really put effort into picking good apples and did a great job. It was fun, but the hard part about going with a large group (we went with a subset of one of our homeschool groups) is you have to wait on latecomers and then try to socialize with one eye on the kids. And if something comes up, you feel committed or obligated to go anyway because you signed up for a spot. It's totally worth it to do once in a while, but I honestly prefer going with a small group or alone and often spontaneously, especially if I know M will be working from home and can help Lucas in case of emergency.
Reverse order photos:
Isaac doesn't usually like online learning, but he does like Sheppard Software for geography.
Naomi on her first field trip in ages. The nice thing about masks is she doesn't mind photos as much.
Homemade jap chae. Love my Pampered Chef Rapid Prep Mandoline! If you want to buy one from my site, let me know!
Magic School Bus Science Kits are so great. We just finished dinosaurs and weather.
Isaac finally big enough to cross this bar bridge
Some random stuff I made--steak and curly fries, I think some fish, and beef and noodles. Having starved so often as a child due to poverty, it's something to see how much our family eats.
Church anniversary dinner
We had all kinds of tacos--yum!
Manny did the Scripture reading
Pluto again being a good sport (or oblivious)
Taking Naomi out to the Taiwanese breakfast shop
Pluto goes into bags and then flips them upright. So cute. Also makes for easy transport sometimes.
Isaac did an excellent job with picking
It was an organic dry apple farm, so the apples grow without lots of water and of course don't have wax and look a little different.
Isaac picking a pear here
Getting our instructions. No educational spiel this time, I think because the group was running late.
Isaac with the pumpkins. Literally a weird flex, but okay.
Love my boy. Also love the cap from my friend.
Isaac ready to go
Happy first birthday, Pluto! You sure fluffed up!
Birthday presents!
Jupiter and Saturn in "close" proximity
Naomi looked like she was standing on a path. This was in the parking lot of her elementary school.
Isaac playing with his boomerang with the Harvest Moon in front of us
Harvest Moon
Mid-Autumn dinner: Lion's heads, crab, honey walnut shrimp (pre-made), and leftover bean curd and pork
Moon pastries instead of mooncakes are less expensive and just as good, if not better (the "moon" is a baked egg yolk).
