Monday
After school we did some yard work, pruning bushes and a tree. Bennett took one of the branches and called it his Christmas Tree and the flowers were ornaments.
Tuesday
Today was Daddy's last class and he was able to come home early! He'd already eaten dinner so he just sat with us while Bennett at. Bennett was very confused about why Daddy wasn't eating.
Wednesday
Nothing too exciting happened. Bennett played outside for a while and then when he came in he played Cootie with Daddy.
Thursday
Today we were discussing the various things in the shed- rakes, shovels, wheelbarrow, lawnmower, etc. I also mentioned that the Derby track was in the shed and Bennett remembered that it also had the "milk cow" track. (Last year Bennett's BlastCar was a milk carton that had a picture of a cow on it.)
Friday
It was raining so we couldn't go outside to play. Instead, when we got home, Bennett wanted to read books. He would go up to his room, get a book, bring it down to the living room, "read" it to himself, and then go back upstairs to repeat the process. He must have done this at least ten times.
Saturday
After soccer we headed off to Sturbridge. This time they were demonstrating cooking with catsup. In the 1830s catsup came in various varieties including tomato, walnut, mushroom, etc. One popular variety was similar to today's Worcestershire sauce.
Down at the farm Lance and Henry were hauling some firewood to the Sugar Camp so that it could dry out and be used next year. Bennett had a blast playing outside pretending to paint, etc. At one point he started to use the milk pails as his paint cans and Victoria gave him some tin dish pans to use instead since the wooden buckets are a pain to clean. I love that she was so accepting of his playing and giving him alternative materials.
When we went past the blacksmith shop Derek was working and Chris was able to talk with him about the hammer that he had made which we saw a month or two ago. Bennett played with all of the various display items and also went outside to make "hamburgers" in the wet sand.
That afternoon we were doing some yardwork and came across this giant spider. Any idea what kind it is?
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And finally, to wrap up the day we went over to Nana's house for dinner.
Sunday
The day started off with a visit to Mimi followed by grocery shopping. We got home in time for lunch and nap. While Bennett was napping I got all of the veggies planted in the garden and then when he woke up he helped spread some mulch.
We also had made the decision to remove one of our raised garden beds as it never did well in the location we had it, but there wasn't a better place to put it. But what to do with the dirt? Uncle Andrew and Aunt Gentry to the rescue! They were putting some raised beds in at their house so this would mean they wouldn't have to buy so much dirt.
On the drive over I tried explaining to Bennett that Aunt Gentry wouldn't be there because she was in Israel for work. But I quickly got flummoxed not knowing how to explain how far away that was.
I also mentioned that they would be getting chickens and that he would be able to name one. I asked him what he would want to call it and he said, "chickens". And then he told me that he would feed it leftovers. What kind of leftovers? "Leftover pie crust." (That's what he and Victoria fed the OSV chickens a few weeks ago.) He also said he would feed them leftover eggs (I clarified that they would have to be cooked first) and pudding.
Quotes from the week
We were looking for a light meter to determine how much sun certain areas of the yard/garden got. Chris was looking for one at Home Depot. Bennett heard Chris tell me that they didn't have any. "Maybe other people bought all of them. They'll have to get more and then you can get one."
While driving through Worcester on Saturday there was heavy traffic and a large truck driving near me. (I hate driving near trucks.) Bennett was chattering away and I commented that "I can't process."
"Mummy, what can't you process?"
Daddy explained that Bennett was talking too much and that there was the truck there, etc.
"You should tell the truck to get out of your way. Truck- Get out of Mummy's way!"
On Sunday, on the way back from Uncle Andrew's and Aunt Gentry's, Bennett saw another truck and again told it to get out of my way. And then there was a van that he saw pull in front of Daddy's truck. So Bennett proceeded to tell me the story of how he was saving Daddy from the van. And about how he threw him a rope to hold on to him so that he could get him away from the van.
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