Day Fifteen – Future Scientists Wear Pink
Today we finally went on our bug hunt! Isabelle and I have been reading bookd about insects and arachnids, making lists of facts that we are learning, and doing some fun :bug” art projects. It’s been fun to learn together, and of course, Emily is right there for it all, so she’s picking up some new vocabulary, too. So, today, we went looking for bugs to study with our hand lenses. I gave each girl a bug box from the dollar store. Each one came with a little net, a hand lens and a tweezers. It took us a while, but we found a couple of good bugs for each box.
It was fun to see how each of the girls could observe the insects and nature while we were on our adventure. Isabelle quickly realized that it was easier to catch things close to the ground so she started pulling weeds back and looking underneath. Emily was all about how fast the bugs could move, and the different ways they move. Surprisingly, neither one of them was squeamish about trying to catch them. Surprisingly, neither was I.
On the way back home we stopped at our neighbor’s house to check out the tadpoles frogs that her boys caught last week. We had read about insect life cycles, so seeing these teeny tiny frogs that had once been tadpoles helped us make a great connection. I just love this picture of Emily studying the frogs so intently.
Somehow, she looks so grownup! She commented, “They jump with them teeny tiny little legs!”
Our other brush with nature today was a bird that got stuck in our garage. It was just a baby robin and it couldn’t find it’s way out. I tried to shoo it out but decided that it might be a better job for daddy. A very protective mama bird hovered near the garage door all afternoon which made it tough to be outside.
In other news – I FINALLY started cleaning out my bedroom closet, a job that’s been on my list every day this summer and just hasn’t been accomplished. I have more to do, but I made some excellent progress. It feels good to have started. I tried to work out, again, tonight. Like Wednesday, my workout was cut short. The gym closes at 8:00 (I thought it was 9:00) so I only got in about 40 minutes. Better than nothing, I guess, but I was annoyed. I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I miss it when I don’t go. Maybe that means I’ll be able to stick with it!
Day Nine – Barely
I just hit “publish” on the last post. If you are reading this…excuse the typos in the last post. I’m going to go back and edit tomorrow. I wanted to make sure it got in before midnight, and I just don’t feel like doing it now.
I thought I’d try to post multiple pictures in a post, as long as I have the camera hooked up and ready to go. So, these are a few shots from the last few days. 
Friday’s activity…making banana milkshakes.
Silliness at McDonald’s. Play-dough!
Sixty-two Days 
