Tuesday, September 27, 2011

home schooling is cool: LA county fair + beach

i know some of you may not agree with me, but home schooling is cool. let me tell you why. home schooling is cool because we are just now starting our fourth week and we have already been to a handful of super rad places. we've visited the LA county fair, been on a couple of fun hikes, visited the natural history museum and an apple orchard. take a look at our trip to the fair and one of our beach hikes...

the fair


this little fella loved the building full of collections (aka cars) and spent a lot of time drooling over them.

but, the dinosaur exhibit...that's another story.

he did not like it and pretty much latched onto the mister through the whole thing.

i'm not kidding when i say latched. look at the grip around the mister's neck.

however, these two little girls were not afraid one bit.

my little miss even got to go on stage to identify a real dinosaur bone.

they dressed up as knights.

of course, this was on the mister's watch because my germ-a-phobic tendencies would not have allowed them to put on those hats.

first thing i thought of when i saw them dressed up was lice. yes, i am a germ-a-phobe! thankfully, my kiddo's came home lice free and the mister was spared.

woods beach

we walked through a cool tunnel



climbed up on the rocks

made necklaces out of sea grass and cool shells

jumped off of rocks

and played in the shore break.

i love these little adventures because it just makes reading, writing and arithmetic a little more bearable throughout our week.

cool right? stay tuned and i will show you some of the other fun places we have been to real soon.

4 comments:

Maria said...

home schooloing sounds RAD! I would have totally tagged along to the apple orchard...please let me know where you went? My pumpkin patch tour begins this weekend...where do you guys go?

Greta said...

So funny about the hats.
When we were kids, my mom never let us try on hats anywhere---because of lice.
So as soon as my kids put on those hats, all I could think of was what my mom would say.
I knew she'd be so grossed out.
And I prayed for no lice.
Love that beach. Where is it?
Love from,
Grets

mygirl said...

maria, we went to riley's farm in oak glen and i think they are open to the public on the weekends. it is so much fun and a great little day trip. as far as pumpkin patches go we pretty much just stay local, but if you find any awesome ones let me know, i would love to hop on the pumpkin patch tour:)

greta, seriously i was praying the whole time they were on their heads. i even told jeff if they get it, he's on lice duty - gosh, i'm so bad! the beach is in laguna off of diamond street. really small secluded little beach where jeff's brother goes snorkling.

Genn said...

hi christina!
fun, looks like your kiddos love their adventures with you.
the picture of your husband at the beach with the rocks in the background is a neat shot.
i love riley's farm! we are going in two weeks and hoping to get a cute family xmas pic too. :)
have a good week!

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