Well this month was busy. We did lots of fun things so far this summer. July has turned out to be busy too, so that’s why I’m just getting around to blogging. Lets see. I took some cute pictures of the kids…well, more acurately I took lots of pictures of the kids and each one of those pictures has a kid that looks cute in it…maybe even two!
First things first, congradulations to Isabelle as she graduated kindergarten (see isabellesworld) and thus summer for us began! The kids wanted to have a sleepover in Preston’s tent…it was more like a couple of hours in the tent together and then if we wanted them to sleep and stop aruging about who was touching who, they had to end up in their own beds. We tried that a couple of times with the same result. We watched Austin a few times and we made crayons.
We started a project with some friends and we grew butterflies. It was cool in the beginning, but then it got gross pretty quick then a bit nerve racking at the end as I was trying to keep them all alive, but it was a great learning tool and the kids enjoyed it. We started out with 10 caterpillars and in the end we ended up with 8 or 9 butterflies( We already can’t remember). Not bad odds. Anyhow we grew them and watched them and hatched them and let them go. You know me and bugs…I couldn’t even look at certain points because they gave me the eebee-geebees! Well releasing them was super fun. Lily was not interested, but Austin was. I put a simple syrup on the kids fingers and they hung around for quite awhile on their fingers…there was an incident though. When they had finally turned into butterflies i was trying to put some oranges in there cage without letting them escape and as I was zipping them up, in came the Tiny Tornado… lily knocked the cage upside down and there was a butterfly casualty. One of the butterfly’s wings ended up broken..it got lodged under and orange and the moisture permanently defected it’s wing. It didn’t fly very well as a result. But in any case it was fun and the kids really enjoyed it, especially Isabelle who named her bugs.
We also celebrated Flag day. We learned about the flag, sang “The Star Spangled Banner” planned a BBQ for dinner, ate home made red, white and blue popsicles and of course had burritos for lunch…what? They were on an American flag plate!!
We learend about coconut and coconut palms. We made a craft and then busted one open…they kids didn’t seem to like them very much and it was very hard to peel the flesh from the husk…glad we can just go to the store and buy it pre done…my dried coconut tasted exactly like the fresh and it was much easier to eat. we tasted the flesh and the coconut water as well as some dried fresh coconut and some sweetened shredded coconut I had…the kids liked the sugar coated stuff…go figure.
We also had a 1st Day of Summer party. We had crafts, a story, a potluck and water play and a waterballon fight. The kids had a fun time!
I, of course made some stuff this month. I made Isabelle’s teacher a framed monogram out of crayons as well as a reuseable monogramed bag to put it in with a note as a goodbye/thank you gift. I made Lily a dress out of an old onsie and some butterfly fabric. Isabelle got a new pink skirt with floral details. Lily got a pair of her old jeans turned into a new skirt. Isabelle got a new green dress with floral detail and Lily got a pink one in the same pattern, though Isabelle’s is my favorite because she loves to wear it and it cost me 82 cents! My friend who has a new business had an idea, but can’t sew…not that I know how to sew or anything…so she described a towel idea and I sewed her a sample..we’ll see if it ever goes into production. Preston Loved it…I’ll have to make him his own soon.
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