Oh those crazy Van Bredas!

Thursday May 24

What we did today:

• French
• Grammar
• Math: Dividing fractions by fractions (so fun!)
• Spelling/ DEAR/ Book Reports
• Library
• Social Studies: Working on Presentations about where our everyday products come from

Homework: Grammar pp. 95-98
Math: p. 224 #1-6 15-18 p. 225 #1,2, 3-19 odd
Book Reports: May Book Report: Read one book (approved by me), and complete numbers 4, 14, 29, and 2 of your choice from 39-53

Judah Judah the Jumping Bean

More van Bredas

Sleeping Faces

Surprised Faces

Tongue Faces

Serious Faces

Silly Faces

Beautiful Ladies

Happy birthday Nadine!

Tuesday's Storm- A Tour Around Our Block

Tuesday's Storm in Stratford- A Tour Around Our Block

Super Nadine!

Reuben on the Wii

We rented a Wii this weekend, and Reuben got quite good at it! In this game, he got 5 spares in a row and then a strike! He beat me by 26 points.
I beat him the next 5 games.

Here's the rest!

More to come later....

Darren!

Darren with the flash...

Darren without the flash

Another beautiful addition to the Family van Breda! Way to go, Marya and Eric!

Judah takes a stroll.

Batman's True Love?

Every wonder why Batman doesn't have an enduring love interest? Spider-man has Mary Jane, Superman has Lois, Green Lantern had Carol, and on and on.

Reuben has been growing in his seemingly insatiable hunger for super-heroes, and we recently picked up a bag of them at Value Village. Among them were a couple of Batmans (Batmen?) and a large-sized Wolverine. It didn't take long for one of the Batmans (resplendent in a yellow and black costume) to notice this large and very manly man. Perhaps it was the similar ears. Perhaps it was the colours. Perhaps it was sympathy for Wolverine and the claws missing on his left hand. Perhaps it was just one of those beautiful mysteries.

Regardless, by this afternoon, not 24 hours after receiving these action figures, Reuben had these two walking hand in hand, was asking Sarah "Mommy, do you think that Batman would cry if he loved somebody?" And by bedtime, Wolverine and Batman were tucked in nicely together.

Scrapbooking!

Rained In

So Brian and I headed to Sarnia yesterday afternoon to spend some time with Shanna, who is in Ontario for a week from BC. This morning right after church it started raining, and, since the temperature was -5, it proved to be quite messy - and it is continuing to be messy. So, we're camping out here overnight again and I'll go to work at noon tomorrow - no sense in attempting to make a slippery 5 hour drive just to be at work on time in the morning!

A Happy Birthday Weekend

My Cool Backyard Sledding Hill

The Snow Continues.... 8:38am

Walking home from girl's night last night I went through snow that was half way up my knees - it was pretty fabulous (but would have been even more fabulous if I had've had winter boots...). The ironic thing is that Redeemer closed yesterday at noon and is still closed today - so if I wasn't taking my vacation this week, I still wouldn't be at work anyway!

The Snow Begins... 8:29am

The weather people say that we're supposed to get from 30-50cm in the next 24 hours here in Hamilton... And apparently the snow that's coming down right now isn't even the "big storm" that we're supposed to get - that's supposed to move in between 2 and 4 this afternoon. I expect that the school will be canceled tomorrow, which makes me a little sad since I'm on holidays this week...