Creativity in the sick house

Marlee and Gabriel had the Chickenpox for a little more than a week last week and could clear them both and Marlee could attend the coops again. Neither of them have felt sick and they have just wanted to leave the house and see their friends. Well finally we could and we had a great weekend with no one being sick! Until Sunday night... I was out with a friend and had dinner and did not see it until this morning, but now Noah has the Chickenpox!!! So we are back to stay in the house. At least I can let Marlee and Gabriel out because they are not contagious. 

Gabriel is sooo sweet with his baby brother and I am almost certain that Rafael is smiling deliberately :-)

This guy likes his new furry friends

Since no one really felt sick we have tried to be creative while being "looked" in the house :-) Apart from doing school work we have also baked, carved pumpkins and done arts and crafts.

One of the math books mormor brought

Marlee got a few of them, too

After the squirrels found our pumpkins...

Making Swedish Gotlandslimpa with fresh yeast

Since Marlee had the chicken pox when we went to the corn maze with mormor and morfar he got to go with pappa now when he was all well again. That gave me and Noah the chance to do something only the two of us, while Gabriel and Rafael were napping. It was so nice! We started building a monster truck that he got for his birthday from a friends.

We have finished building it by now but still need to paint it and put on stickers

Making fall trees with tissue paper (never through away tissue paper if you have kids!!)

Birch trees in the fall

Aunt Cindy and Uncle Danny came to visit us the other night and they brought bear and dear meat that they have caught themselves. We had bear chili for dinner which was very exciting! I could not really tell what it tasted like when being in the chili but it is supposed to be a little sweeter than beef.

Gabriel liked the bear chili and put some in his hair...

October 23 Rafael was 1 month old!! We got the monthly stickers as a gift, one for each month :-)

Is it just me or are they making the same face here!?

The whole gang!

Still no teeth...

We made it to the beach with friends yesterday!! So nice!!

I found this picture on facebook of the beach by us before and after the hurricane. Thought it was interesting.

This morning one of the chickens had escaped from our back yard, but it seemed to be missing home because she was waiting outside the fence when we found her :-)

Pic nic in the play room