Friday, May 28, 2021

Friday Five

It's a 3 day weekend! Bring on the fun and mini break, please.

13 more days of school for the boys. 14 more for me. Yay!

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You can tell things are winding down with school for the boys. The teachers are all feeling a bit rushed to finish whatever they can before the end of the year. The big boys continue to plug away at their family life units. Jason is doing some research on colleges in his AVID class. Shawn's class is quite a few chapters in to a new novel. Jack's teacher is trying to do as much as she can with teaching them fractions. Busy, busy, busy.

And still, the boys are all doing well. I'm quite proud of how all of them are doing. I know they are all trying hard to do their work and get good grades.

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Jack continues to ask to go to a store on the regular. We are still trying to avoid public places as much as possible until everyone is vaccinated. We just don't want to take chances with their health. We will all be so excited when we are all vaccinated. (Although we will still take precautions for a long time to come.)

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Shawn, Jack, and dad have been going out each afternoon. They're doing all kinds of fun things, but mostly, I think they are just enjoying being outside. Jason even managed to go outside a few times this week, too. 

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Right now, we have 8 known chrysalises outside! We had one chrysalis accidentally get destroyed, which made us all sad. We still have lots of caterpillars in the milkweed, too. Yay!


Thursday, May 27, 2021

Garden Update

Everything had a growth spurt this week. :)

Our peppers are turning red.

The flowers (still can't remember the kind) is about to bloom!

Cucumbers

Corn is getting so tall! It is probably over 2 feet tall now!




Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Way Back Wednesday

This week's Way Back post is a re-run of a post I wrote way back on 5/29/2010. They are SO tiny!

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Listening to Their Momma Like Good Little Boys...

We got the boys' new lenses today. I spoke to both Shawn and Jason at length about NOT THROWING THEIR GLASSES WHEN THEY GET UPSET ALREADY!!! I carefully explained that throwing said glasses will scratch the lenses again, and we just can't be running to the store every few months to replace them. They listened to me closely and have agreed to take care of these, their third pair of lenses this year. They swore up and down that this would be the last set we'd have to get until their next eye exam in November.
Ahem.
So they thought.
And thought.
They were hard at work trying to figure out the best way to protect this round of lenses and keep their mother happy.
They did come up with an ingenious plan, I do have to say so myself.
Here is Jason modeling their new idea...

With a plan like this, there is no way the lenses will get scratched this time.

It is not, however, a perfect plan, and Jason has started to realize their thinking was a little short sighted in the last picture.

Hehe.

Seeing might be a problem!


Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Octopus

Jason working on his octopus art.





Monday, May 24, 2021

Lemon Pickers

Jack picks 'em. 


Shawn smells 'em to make sure they're good. lol





Sunday, May 23, 2021

It's Hammer Time!

These two were in heaven. Dad gave them hammers and a cinder block to break apart. I think they'd hammer cinder blocks apart every day if we had them!







Saturday, May 22, 2021

The Good Kind

Caterpillars that is.



The circles are chrysalises on the brick wall. That's
a new place to find them. We've found 3 there so far!






 
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