Salmon Run? And Fluffies!

Apparently this time of year is good to see the salmon swim upstream so Baba suggested we go check it out.
Unfortunately we didn't see any fish.  But alhamdulillah we had a nice day out nonetheless.
And we also discovered some super cool plant. I have no idea what its called. But imagine a dandelion when it turns all white n fluffy and you can blow it out and watch the seeds peacefully fly away....[this is an essential part of childhood!]... Anyways this new found plant was a similar idea, except the fluffies were in a pocket thing, the seeds were bigger and probably hundreds of them, and the fluffy part felt like silk!  We had so much fun checking them out and blowing them away.  I would love to know more about these :) 

Subhanallah how Allah has created such diverse and beautiful things!

Pumpkin

I bought a pumpkin, we carved it, seeded it, cooked it, made puree out of it and then made cookies! It was fun and yummy.  Click here for the recipe we used.

Taking the seeds out.  Ibby did not want to get his hands dirty.

Ibby deciding he did not want to take part in this messy activity

The cooked pumpkin.  Once it was cooled, I peeled it and put it in my food processor

High Park

We recently went on a field trip to High Park. As always it was awesome mashaallah.  For anyone living in the Toronto area, I highly recommend them... take a look at their website - www.highparktoronto.com

They have programs all year round.

Looking for flowers

Putting leaves on our noses

First field trip for our newest addition

Looking at a tiny caterpillar

Leaves

We went on a walk last week and while Yusuf rode his bike, I collected a few leaves. The next day when they dried out, we put the leaves under a paper and then rubbed crayons over the paper to reveal the imprint of the leaf. After that we cut a hole in the middle of a paper plate and stuck the leaves on to make a autumn wreath.