Fall is here... why's it 90 outside?

Sorry to miss a week again.  We took a trip to visit Grandma and Grandpa for Icy's birthday.

This is Icy using some of her new birthday presents. 

 Her new fox robe, her new fox mug and her new tablet.   She was so happy to visit and celebrate with her family.  After we got home from the trip she got her blue streaks she's been dying for (pun intended).

Yeah I know you can't really tell, but there are two shocking blue stripes in there.  For anyone concerned, we used Manic Panic which is a vegan semi-permanent hair dye so nothing chemically or permanent.

Speaking of hair, the other day the girls all sat down to curl their hair.  They lost patience a little too fast though and the curls all fell out immediately. 

They made quite a cute bunch though.  Ro-bear only got a couple curlers because her hair is naturally curly and well, we ran out of curlers in the package.



 The girls have been going to science club every chance we get.  This month was super hero science.  The girls had a blast doing experiments and talking about super heroes.  That's one of their favorite subjects in the whole world and even Ro-bear jumped in yapping away. 

 Here are some random clay figures that's Icy made recently.  Sadly the purple cat got squished under the couch and the rainbow got cracked.  We tried to fix him, but it just didn't really work out.  I'm very glad we got pictures of them before they bit the dust.  She worked really hard on them. 

 Icy had a diorama she was supposed to work on for science class.  She had to two weeks to work on the project, and she started off pretty well.  She drew the random Mr. Octopus above, but erased him for some serious work.  Below is a picture of our notes and some pictures we drew for ideas.  That lovely sea dragon in the center was all Icy. It's my favorite up there.  My second favorite was my octopus, but the flash makes it impossible to see.  Oh well.

 

 

 This is the picture she doodled for a model for the shoe box.  Sadly, the air dry clay was not working, it wasn't exactly dried out, but was crumbly when you worked with it.  I'm not sure what was wrong with it.  So she decided to make the animals out of paper... then got distracted building the cat a cat house out of boxes with a scratching post and doors and a window etc.  Finally I told her to just draw me a lovely picture of a coral reef and tell daddy something she learned about the coral reef environment.

Every Thursday Icy and I go to Urban Ninja class and Daddy spends time with the other girls.  I came home yesterday to see Daddy spending time with all the girls.  He had two little girls and a kitty girl in his lap.  The kitty girl looked so happy sitting there I had to take a picture. 

Things have been both busy and slow for us right now.  We joined a girl scout troop and have been getting used to the idea of going to meetings on top of everything else we do.  Then we've gotten in a nice swing with school work, except for the occasional day when we're still working at 4:30 in the afternoon... that day was the day that the AC was out and we spent a few hours in the morning waiting on the repair man.  Then after he came we spent another hour outside talking to him and asking him questions about the AC.  Sadly we still had some stuff to do when he left and we had PE to go to etc.  We made it though. 

I hope you are having a wonderful fall so far (yes I know it just started).  Our neighbor's tree is changing already and we heard some geese flying south.  I hope the weather will soon fall into place and all will be lovely and fall.  

After Much Hiatus

Icy (or L-bug) just turned ten.  So hard to believe she's getting so grown up already.  We had a very eventful day.  We'd done a small party with her friends at the park on Saturday and had such a good time.  The weather was perfect and even being Labor Day weekend it wasn't overly crowded. Then we had cake with family on Sunday.  Tuesday was her actual birthday so we went out to dinner and went window shopping for her birthday money.  She chose to save it for now, so we'll see.

Boo has been fighting some tummy issues lately.  She ended up going to a GI dr who found out she had a parasite and it caused some lactose intolerance.  The dr. said it should clear up now that the parasite is gone, but so far it is still acting up.  She does a great job avoiding milk and ice cream and even yogurt, but cheese is her one weakness. While at her last visit she was playing with blocks and said look mom me made hulk.  She'd put a Y and a V together to make a person then realized it was green and purple just like the Hulk.  It was

We took a trip to the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio last month with my family.  The girls seemed to enjoy everything except there was just too much to see and do.  Out of four hangers we saw one and a half if I had to guess.   Ro-bear started freaking out anytime we walked under a plane.  No idea why, but she wasn't happy about that.  She liked walking through the presidential planes though. 





A few weeks ago we went to the Farmer's Market and there were pallets of strawberries and buckets of peaches so we bought some to make jam.  Sadly we got sidetracked and had to start the next day and half the fruit seemed rotten at that point.  We did still get plenty of jams canned and ready and the chickens liked the scraps. 

We also took a trip to the Ripley's Aquarium last month.  We had a blast.  Even though Ro-bear got tired of looking at fish all the time.  Luckily we were about to the penguins and they don't count as fish.

We saw two rainbows that day and it was Grandma's birthday too so we sent her a picture of a rainbow.  There was a WWII exhibit at the aquarium as well, we enjoyed it a great deal.  We hit a mirror maze and Ripley's Believe it Or Not as well.  The younger girls didn't like it because it was too scary, but Icy and us grown ups had fun looking around. 

Aside from taking more field trips this year, I'm wanting to do more crafts together with the girls.  We bought some little craft kits online and each Friday we pick one to do together.  We've made a 3d puzzle, wooden tents, origami etc.  The hardest thing so far is finding crafts that are good for a wide range of ages.  4-10 is a hard range to find something that everyone can do and enjoy doing.  We tried to make wooden covered wagons today, but the directions were very unclear and Daddy is going to help us tomorrow.  The girls are also working on sewing together.  The younger girls do lacing and Icy does hand sewing.  She got a little machine for her birthday she's still working on figuring it out. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you're having a good September so far.  I'll leave you with this random but cute picture of Boo from the other day.

Come back soon! Bye.