Friday Five

Can we all say it? FOUR more weeks of school! FOUR more weeks! Can't wait!

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Jack has decided he also needs his shot, so we can go out and do things. He told me he wants to be like his brothers.

He also wants to go to Target.

I can totally understand his desire there. It has been forever since they've been there.

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It looks like Jack will earn a trophy for his reading! They had the option of earning 60 points for a small trophy, 80 points for a medium trophy, and 100 points for a large trophy. He got himself to the medium trophy. He has 1 week to see if he can make it to the large trophy! It might be a challenge, but he is going to try. You can do it Jack!

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Let's see...Jason has been building some cardboard weapons this week. He spent lots of time planning and executing his plans. They have moveable parts and everything! This is cool stuff for 13 year old boys.

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Shawn has decided he is in to baking, or more accurately, watching me do the baking while he tells me what to do. He is interested in it, but doesn't want to get messy. He'd much prefer I do the messy part. LOL. Anyway, last weekend was brownies. This weekend, we'll be working on banana cupcakes. Yum!

This Week's Garden Update

We had lots of growth and some invaders this week.

corn

tomatoes - almost time to stake them!

Flowers - still can't remember the kind. We're going to be surprised!

carrots up front, beans in the middle,
radishes close to the net, and lettuce under the net

Poor lettuce that had a caterpillar problem

Look at that radish!

cucumber

We had a bunch of cabbage butterfly caterpillars eating all of our lettuce. We managed to get them all off and put a net on as many of the plants as we could. This is a quandary - here we are butterfly/caterpillar lovers in the milkweed, yet we are clearly not lovers of the caterpillars in the lettuce. What to do, what to do? lol

Way Back Wednesday

One of my all time favorite pictures of Jack - this week in 2014.

Chrysalis

We have quite a few chrysalises outside now. This one was one we got to watch being formed.

 

Waiting

This kid was hanging out, so he could go outside with his dad.

He is so GROWN all of a sudden. Le sigh.

Doing Okay

Well, the boys did relatively okay with their shots. The next day, Shawn had a bit of a headache. He said his head was bugging him in the same place my head bugged me after my shots. Tylenol seemed to take care of it enough to get him through the day.

Both of the boys were a bit grumpy the next day, also. 

Fingers crossed that their next doses go just as easily!

Doing Our Part

Keeping themselves and others healthy. I'm so proud of both of them!

We went to CVS to get their vaccines. Jack also went and was THRILLED that a store was open. lol. We may no longer be able to say we can't go to stores because they are all close. Darn. LOL

They each got to pick out a little something from the store as a bonus, too. :)