Kindergarten fun

Come along, join the fun. I have been going to the pumpkin farm for seven years now on one field trip or another.... and honestly, I'm not crying that this will be the last!! Imagine this: Thursday wind storm. Very cold. Power out. All night. Sleep in living room. Greg is gone. All four of us one one mattress on the floor. Still no power. No shower. No hot water. Flo is visiting. And guess what! It's field trip day!!

So thus we have our own pumpkin vine from now on, and here is the glory of the day! It was really fun (for everyone but me!!)

pumpkin fest

Happy fall!! We would like to share with you the story of our pumpkins.

Every year we do something new in our garden, and this year we decided to do pumpkins. We thought since we were gone all summer, we could at least enjoy them when we got back. But when we came back in August, we found all our pumpkins looked like this

And they would just shrivel up. Shrivel, shrivel, shrivel, week after week after week! Finally we thought something must certainly be wrong and we checked the internet. Low and behold, we found out that there is a bee shortage nowadays and if your pumpkins were shriveling, it was likley because they were not polinated. Then, we learned some amazing things.

Did you know that pumpkin vines have both male and female flowers? The male flowers (like the one above) are ripe and open for a few days, waiting for the female flowers to open up (for only like an hour in the early morning.) At just that time, a bee needs to come along spread the pollen from the male to the female. So with no bees, the flowers were not being polinated and our pumpkins were shriveling!

So anybody needs to grow pumpkins if you need a reproductive lesson. The kids got busy with watching the flowers, spreading the pollen at just the right time, and guess what!

WE GOT ONE PUMPKIN!! It is green and not quite ready for carving, so we went to the pumpkin farm and got a few more. But that's another blog!! -C

Happy Birthday Unco Wonnie!!

Hmmmm..... 39 years. For what shall I wish?

I shall wish for...... a home.

(just one please)

How about a table? For my wife's good food?

Maybe a precious kiddo..... or two.

Maybe a sista?

Who gives us cousins.

Yes! Those things would be nice!!

Party on!!!!

Three little pigs

My Kindergarten class is lots of fun. We do a drama of the three little pigs along with a song. It goes like this:

Little pig Little pig! Let me come in!!

Not by the hair of my chinnie-chin-chin!

So I'll huff! and I'll puff! And I'll blow your house in!!

(And you know the story, all the houses fall down except mine made out of bricks.)So all my friends came over to my house!! And we chase that wolf right outa town!

Soccer time

Soccer season has started! "We had an amazing game yesterday. We had 12 goals. I had five assists and an amazing moment at the end. The goalie was coming right up and I popped it right over his head for a goal! "

(That's how many goals the other team got.)

First Day of School

Here we are, ready to go!! The first day was cloudy and cold so we got to pack our lunches, backpacks AND bring our coats.

I have a new jacket, a new hairstyle with a braid down the middle, and I'm excited to be going into a new center! I spent the night before practicing my multiplication (because I didn't do any all summer) and the first part of the day I was kinda quiet, but by the end of the day I felt I'd been in my new class all year!!

I'm excited to be going back to school to see all my friends. And I love to work on spelling!!

Notice my fancy tie I decided to add at the last minute! Mom tried to get me to wear a nice shirt to go with it but I thought this looked just fine. It's my summer t-shirt from Gallaudet.

I am ready for Kindergarten!!

Ocean Shores

The weekend before school, we went to the Washington coast so that we could top off our summer and say we officially went from "Sea to Shining Sea"!!

We stayed at a friends guest house and they had a fish pond in the back yard. Our favorite thing was to go out and feed them.
And Shayna loved taking pictures, of course.

We had fun playing in the sand and water. A little too cold to go swimming, though.

God Bless America! We did it!!