Saturday Morning Music

Super late...we've had a doozie of a week or so...

Trapped Indoors (Kinda) Activity #3: Entomology 101

Remember this?

Here is the result...

"g" =grasshoppers. Our discussion based on their different colors!  They all came from the same backyard but different places depending on what is/isn't growing there...CAMO!

Great writing...the time and patience that this took from a highly gifted gross motor kid is evident! What a perfect way to work on fine motor skills and more closely observe the pine beetle!

Trapped Indoors Activity #2: Fort Building

Over the past few weeks we have experienced days where it is best to stay indoors due to smoke from nearby forest fires. Here is one of the favorite ways to pass time...build it, fish from it, hunt from it, read in it, cuddle in it...destroy it...rebuild it...

Thankfully the fires are nearly all contained!
Squirrel Creek Fire
Arapaho Fire
High Park Fire

Boys Who Will Change the World

"Giving Hearts"

Darling, (Lego-Loving) Boys

Cape Buddies at Lego Club

Vanism

Mom, can I sleep with my new dead scorpions?


Cuddly new gift from Auntie Anna

Vanism

I'm workin' on something to make Isabelle fly...it's a rocket launcher! Mom, you know a way I can sharpen it?

Poor dog...she's already neurotic enough...

The Big Clean-Out--Trapped Indoors Activity #1

Van's room is that of a hoarder with two hoarding parents....we cleaned out in a major way this evening. He was willing to part with a couple things. The full bag and box that I took out were done more sneakily but it's doubtful that he will even notice.  Here is a list of odd/interesting items that we found...


-corroded battery
-3 disassembled flashlights
-all of my missing hair-ties
-rocks, rocks, maybe 40 rocks
-3 pine cones, one from California that is round
-sticks
-a fork
-49 cents
-8 toilet paper rolls
-screws...wonder what they came out of...
-shriveled carrot
-baby rattle, wooden, memories of a baby
-John Deere tractor catalogs...12 or so
-2 dead moths (Van: NO, YOU CAN'T THROW THEM AWAY........I'M SAVING THOSE LIKE IN THE INSECT MUSEUM!)
-compass
-variety of whistles
-matches

Oh the things he could dream up with all of that...