Our homeschool coop went on a field trip to a local farm today.  The kids enjoyed petting the donkey, petting and feeding carrots to the goats, and feeding grapes to the chickens.  I learned that you can tell what color a chicken's eggs will be by looking at the color under it's ears.  We also enjoyed a picnic lunch on the farm.

Emma's Lemonade Stand

Emma had her first lemonade stand today (after asking to have one for a long time) in conjunction with our neighborhood yard sale.  She only made a few dollars but is donating some of it to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (http://www.alexslemonade.org/).  I am so proud of her.

Archeology Festival

We went to an archeology festival at Iron Hill Museum in Newark, DE on Sunday.  It was a bit cold but at least the rain held off until we left. 
Here are some pictures.

Playing old fashioned games.

                                                              Face painting

Making corn husk dolls.

 

One of several mystery boxes

                                                     Digging for treasure (probably the girls' favorite part)

                                                       Archery (Bob's favorite part)

This site is the home of the first one room school house in Delaware.  There is also a small natural history museum here.

Field trip to DEEC

Today the girls and I went on a field trip to the DEEC (Dupont Environmental Education Center)  in Wilmington, DE.  Emma got to make a letterbox book and stamp and then go searching for letter boxes (this was my first experience with letterboxing, to find out more about it go to letterboxing.org).  There is a nice boardwalk surrounding the wetlands there and although we only saw one Canada Goose, there are turtles, frogs, beavers, and many different birds that make their homes there.  We enjoyed the field trip and the weather was warm and sunny for it. 
They have other family programs at the DEEC (which we had never been too before) so hopefully we can check some of those out in the future.  And who knows, maybe we will start letterboxing so Emma can fill up more of her book!

Emma with her letterbox book.  She chose the name Talking Dog.

                                                   Getting their books stamped after finding a letterbox.

                       

                                                   The 2nd letterbox the kids found was in this beautiful area.