Day 2 of Botany: Roots

Who would have thought that botany would be so incredibly entertaining?;) The kids really enjoyed learning about roots today....seriously! They each cut a radish to see the insides. We drew pictures of a whole radish and cross-sections. The best part? Using the radish to actually make the red and green colors on our pages! That seriously impressed all three of them. ;)

Egg drop from bedroom window

Today Joseph worked on his egg drop contraption for cub scout camp. Here is our trial run from today. The egg survived all four of our drops, but I won't do the reveal until after the real drop. I don't want to give away any secrets! :D

First day of Scout Camp

No pictures today, but we had our first day of cub scout camp. We had to leave the house at a time when the kids are not even normally up yet (7:30). That made for some sleepy campers this afternoon.
The kids had fun. The girls went with the "lil buddies" and Joseph and I were with a group of wolves and bears. Joseph refused to do two of his four activities today. He participated in a group painting and building a bird feeder, but he would not do flag football or bb guns.
Libby woke up crying this morning and cried until I dropped her off. Then she was fine all day. Until it was time to go home. Then she cried some more. She calmed down long enough to get bathed and convince me that she was OK to go see Kung Fu Panda before German dancing. Well, she made it through the movie and then promptly went to sleep at German dancing. When I picked her up to bring her home, she was very warm.
So, now I am wondering how we will work that out tomorrow. That was not part of the plan.

Summer Fun

Today when I got home from Super Target (where I spent $60, because $210 wasn't enough at the grocery store yesterday), I found the Slip N Slide set up and the kids were having a blast!

Botany and Balloons, part 2

While I was grocery shopping today, I picked up 200 water balloons. Do you know how difficult it is to fill up a bunch of water balloons?! Alex and I spent about 45 minutes and ended up with about 40 of them. The kids enjoyed them though and were ready to do more after the 30 seconds it took to explode the first batch. Perhaps another day!

Botany and Balloons

Today, the kids started their Botany unit. Since today was the introduction to what we are doing, they tasted different parts of plants. They had pepitas (seeds), radish (root), asparagus and broccoli stems (stems), spinach (leaves), marigolds (flowers), tomatoes, red bell pepper and cucumber (fruit). Libby was our most adventurous...she tried all of them! Actually, I told them that they all had to eat at least one little bite of each, but Joseph and Caroline were much more resistant and refused to even try a few things.

Libby enjoyed some of it so much, that she went back for more pepitas, spinach and cucumbers.

Oh, did I mention that I even provided Ranch vinaigrette spray to make it more palatable?

I guess it was inevitable

I have to be the last person on the earth that has all of the conveniences of the 21st century, but hasn't started a blog.

Will I be able to keep it up? I am not a writer. I think it must be why my 8 year old hates writing so much. I tend to be very sparse with words and would prefer to SAY what I am thinking than try to write it down.

But, I should have a way to document and remember what happens to us in our daily adventures, right?
Maybe someone could benefit from reading about what we do. Maybe my family might like to see our day. It's not everyone that has a kid in college, going through eye surgery and three more at home being homeschooled.

Except that right now we are pretty boring. Gas prices are high, so we are staying home more...very unusual for us, but I guess that is what made me think about the blog in the first place.

I guess this is a good way to upload a few pictures without boring my dear friends at Dallas Area Moms. :) The one today is a picture of Caroline at the pool.