In the House

Every day, we usually play this little game called "Let's Do Something To Get Out of Our Crappy Apartment". Such things have included Unschooling Park Days, trips to the library, a Taste of Colorado, nature centers, a La Leche League meeting, climbing a mountain, touring the Celestial Seasonings tea factory, trips to Whole Foods, an Attachment Parenting playgroup, trips to the park, a social mom's group at the church, going to Pearl Street, etc.

But for the past couple of days we have been sticking around the house because Ocean has been looking like this:

We think it started because on the day that those fires near Boulder started (Labor Day), we happened to be in Boulder at a Boulder Creek Festival where I was doing this (I apologize for the small picture. It was taken with Vernon's phone):

First, she felt fine, but she was losing her voice. Then, her voice was completely gone and she was tired all day for a couple of days. She is better now, but we're pretty sure she was probably having some sort of reaction to inhaling that smoke.

So, we've been at home, doing stuff like this for the past couple of days:

Ezra has made some friends with some boys in our apartment complex who seem to be pretty nice, so he goes outside to play with them absolutely every time he sees them outside. Peace watches him:

Here's Vernon:

And Peace again: