Picture update

The Helgoth's prep for the egg dropThe egg droppers (Cub scouts, American Heritage girls and some parents) "Bombs away" This is the highest drop. Where RA's broke. DG's broke on the first drop. (Fantastic idea, bad mechanics -- we needed to tie it tighter.)CertificatesEgg Drop? I thought we got to play.Me (yes a picture of me) handing out badges and awards to the Pioneer/Patriots (the level I lead for Jr/Sr high girls. Imagine we working with that age level)

RA receiving her necklace for attendance, completion of different sections, and bible memorization.

RA's American Heritage Girl troop at an awards day.

DG and Daddy went to see the Harlem Globetrotters with the Cub Scouts. The kids got to sit court side during warm ups.

I wish you could see this better. It is a snowy owl. It was at a barn about 40 minutes from us. Usually (oosually as PG would say) they don't come any farther south than Canada. This is also an adult male which is very rare to see.

"Me ride jaff"

So as you know we went to the Children's Museum last week. Two nights after PG - the two year old- wakes up in the middle of the night. He wanted me to rock him. I was holding him and he looks at me and says, "Me ride jaff! Tars spin round." It took me a second but I figured it out.

"Yes PG, you rode a giraffe at the museum and the star spun around on the ceiling."

"No, me ride jaff!!! (angrily)"

"Oh you want to ride the giraffe, now?"

"yah!"

"PG, the museum is sleeping, now." It was 2AM. "We will go again a different day."

"Otay Mommy."


So today we went to the children's museum.

Time for a new post

So I thought it was time to post again (although I think Beth is the only one who reads this).
Last week we took a field trip with the Co-Op group to Traders Point Dairy. The kids loved it and learned some new things. Like: when they fed the calves out of a plastic tub with lots of nipples attached, the calves headbutted the plastic tub to try to get the milk to come faster (my mom says, "Oh like cats when they push there paws against their mothers", I'm think "CATS? what about my children?")
And the dairy had free range chickens (Fr. Dominic, I'm still waiting for that homily) and DG asked how they got more chickens if they collected the eggs (He found it interesting that they let the chickens lay eggs wherever they wanted). They told him if they didn't collect a lot of the eggs, there would be no where to walk because there would be chickens everywhere.
We also learned we like Chocolate milk straight from the dairy. I think RA was looking for the chocolate cow.
Oh, and they liked that they learned we aren't born to eat candy and cows aren't born to eat grain. Cows are born to eat grass. But I think cow pies that come from grain fed cows are far better than cow"pies" that come from grass fed cows! Yuck!!!