in which they visit some interesting places and camp along the way

a trip we took back in early June:

 

 

A. especially enjoyed the Jr. Ranger programs at all the parks

 Carlsbad is a hundred caves of aMAzing:

 

 

the Carslbad flight program, where you wait for the bats to emerge at dusk is really fantastic.  Where else do you find a few hundred people from around the globe sitting in complete silence, waiting for wildlife to do its thing?

Guadalupe National Park:

 



El Capitan

White Sands National Monument:

White Sands was so cool, we decided to go back during the day time

 

It is very bright, and hot

 

the desert almost got the best of us 

 

but we made it home, safe and sound and dusty and tired.

 



Hammy Haiku

                                                   
                                                           




                                                        cute tiny fuzzball

                                                   gnaw gnaw gnaw on her cage bars

                                                        awake in the night

This Is Nibbles 2 (by L.)

                                              Isn't she CUTE!?!?!?

This Is Nibbles (by L.)

need & greed

After a recent conversation with another mom about attending to the needs of our small children, I did a little check-in with BR.

"BR, do you think you get enough attention?"
"No."
"You don't?  Do you want me to pay more attention to you?"
"Yes."
"How?"
"Give me money.  Really, I meant it.  Give me money."
 

6, 7, 8

year-end stuff

I had hoped to make a lovely montage with photos of what we've been doing all these weeks when I've been slacking on blogging.  This, however, makes much better reading.

At any rate, the kids just finished school, we had all kinds of end-of-year events to participate in, as well as the usual playing-in-the-mud kind of thing.




a neighbor lets us use her backyard to play in, to fish in her (hand-dug) pond,
and then feed the fishies to her chickens.  This is our kind of fun.

 

 



(I mostly skip out on the fishing part to do the reading-novel-part.)

 



 

 

class presentation for Kindergartners who were doing a unit on "Our Bodies, Our Selves"

 



explaining about stitches (on a pig's foot)





when the praying mantis egg hatched a hundred babies

more end-of-year stuff...



 

One of my favorite moments: when A. rushed out to grab a partner to swing
dance with and BR rushed forward to be picked

Field Day:

 



hip hop tutorial

 


(L's 3rd grade teacher)