Building A Fort

  We had beautiful weather this week and the kids have been busy working on their new fort.

 They gathered a lot of sticks, made
a fire pit, and added a few log benches.

 A is sweeping out the fort and cleaning the rock stepping stones on the porch.  They have been adding special trinkets that they find in the woods.

We took a book and a picnic lunch one day, and they played hide and seek.

H decided this little tree was in the way of the door.  So he chopped it down...this took a while because the axe is quite dull...however, he didn't mind the work.  Then he had this grand idea to strip the log and make a flag pole.  He had cut up an old tee-shirt the day before and had written his name on the flag.

This was hours of joy..... 

Challenging herself to climb to the top of this fallen  tree.  She talked to herself the whole time saying, "you can do this, have courage"

Gathering a weed boquet...

They were tired after hours of play and H offered to carry A home.....until they got to a hill, then he told her how easy it was to run down hill and she could walk herself...