Here's a photo I took of Nora this morning before school.
She has has this home reader book "Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore" at home for over a week now! Not because it was hard as in "difficult" to read, but it was hard for her to give it up. ;)
I think she really liked reading it b/c the story followed in a rhyme pattern.
I'm sure she will do great on her test today at school. ;)
Well what do you know - I did get a few photos! I just love the one of Paul Thomas above! He laughed and giggled as that butterfly moved off the paper and onto his legs.
"Ooough it ickles! It ickles me!"
Before the release they discouraged handling the butterflies - but it was too hard to resist! Nora was as careful as could be with the one she held. She thought it was funny when I told her that it was a lot like her in the mornings waking up for school... "ooooh I'm so tired, I feel so lazy... I don't want to get up..." because these butterflies had been in those envelopes and in a refrigerator all night..
and guess who else was feeling lazy. Olivia found a comfy spot in a chair just her size! These would be neat to have at home to replace our patio furniture that was stolen last winter.
Below Nora shows us the Bumble Bee goggles to show how bees see multiple images of just one item. She knew all about it - since her Kindergarten class had just visited the botanical garden on a field trip on Tuesday of this week. They also brought out the owl for us to see.
In the kid zone garden sitting area they had a Tic-Tac-Toe game made form a 12" tile with grid lines marked on it and dark and light stones to use as the "X" and "O" markers. What a neat idea!
PaPaw & MaMaw you need one of these for your house!!!
I'm so glad we took some time to walk around after the butterfly release. The kids really enjoyed it! Oh and they had watering cans for anyone who wanted to use them for watering the flowers and Nora and Paul Thomas sure more than happy to lend a helpful hand to give lots of drinks to lots of plants and flowers!
I don't remember seeing Olivia use the watering can... if she did I never got a photo of it on my camera. Instead she was happy digging till her heart's content here in their sandbox like pit. Instead of sand it had very small gravel. Smaller than pea gravel.
the only thing that would have made this better - would have been if David could have joined us. Maybe he will next year on Earth day - guess I better send him an Outlook appointment for it now so it will be on his schedule for 2011 and he not book anything else that afternoon ;)
Nora was talking about it again this morning as I got her ready for school and telling me about the Star Gazing party that her friends John Paul, & Caitlin went to and was a little disappointed that she didn't get to go.
"Momma I want to go to Shangri La EVERYday! or at least EVERY Saturday!!! Pleeeeeease!"
which might be a good idea for their upcoming Birthday - with what money they receive we could buy a Family Membership and visit as often as we like and also take family there when they come to town for a visit ;)
To see all of the photos I took in larger format CLICK HERE.
Did everyone have a Happy Earth Day yesterday??? The kids and I went to the botanical garden here in town where they each got to help release 1 of 300+ butterflies! It was so fun!
Do you see us??? I'm the one above wearing the back shirt :P and those are my twins behind our friends son holding the butterfly in his palm. I love that little knobby knee of Paul Thomas...and look how much higher up Olivia's knee cap is than his!
above photo shows Nora on the far left wearing the plaid school uniform and with the back of her head facing the camera :P
I love these shoes in the window and the little feet they fit.
I love that just one medium sized wash load and all of Nora's School uniforms are clean for the week ;) I ♥ school uniforms!
I love Cheesy Chicken Crescent and Aunt Nell's Garden Green Beans for supper.
I love it b/c it's a guaranteed meal that I know Nora will eat ALL of! ;) and I love doing our made up "Happy Dance" song after supper.
I love helping out long distance friends by the simple task of making just one quilt block to be used to make that person a quilt.
I love hearing Nora tell me all about their field trip to the botanical garden and how excited she got when she talked about the BIG Bee Hive.
Oh and I love how finding a leftover "sucker from the bank" and giving it to her for no reason, can totally make me The World's Bestest Mommy. ;)
I love that so many friends and family have shared hand-me-down clothes and shoes for my kids and I love that I can load them up and take them to other friends to share the BLESSINGS!
and speaking of Blessings... I love that all of my children know how to pray and do so freely anytime they feel the need. My prayer for each of them is to continuously grow closer to their Father and to have an ever growing desire to honor, obey and glorify Him as they look for their calling on what it is He wants for them in their lives.
I love watching the little ones explore new things. Like roller skating.
OH and I love these curls!
and I la,la,love it when David arrives home before dark!!!
and one last photo to share with you... I love that Nora now reads to us each night ;)
a very unusual colored moth? or bug? I've never seen anything like this before have you?
and when we went to the mailbox we found a post card from Mimi that she sent to Nora during her recent visit to Washington, DC. ;)
Thanks Mimi!
