The kids were with Aunt Ellen today, so the only pics I took were of food. I think I’ll spice this post up with some oldies but goodies.
Pears.
Ava, age two, with a pair of pretzels boobs.
A bowl of shriveled stuff.
Maxine, shriveled.
A banana spinach smoothie, with a little too much spinach. Even for me.
Ava and too much green finger paint. Even for me.
After my morning meals wore off, I made my everything-but-the-kitchen-sink salad.
This morning’s run had a purpose: Go pick up the car.
The car was in the shop yesterday and was ready last night, but we didn’t get a chance to pick it up so I decided I’d just run down and get it this morning since it’s only 2+ miles away.
I disregarded the No iPod Left Behind Act and did a warm up loop though my neighborhood and then ran what I would call my 5K pace to the shop.
I got up this morning to do a little downward dog in the family room, only to discover a little outward skunk wandering around on the deck.
Take note that this picture was taken BEHIND the safety of a glass door.
I flew up the stairs to snag Ava out of bed. Wake my sleeping 5 year old on purpose? Am I insane? I knew she’d love it though and I didn’t want her to miss it. She’d have been up shortly anyway. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
Muggy but at least cool, I headed out this morning to run a comfortable 6.24 miles in 50 minutes. My legs felt pretty tired toward the end but nothing a little green juice couldn’t fix.
The star of today’s green sludge:
A beat up pear.
Thank you Heather for this fab idea!
Today’s concoction consisted a HUGE head of romain, cucumber, pear, lemon and ginger. Go ahead and call me a lettuce vampire, I love drinking the blood of plants!
It’s been one of those days.
What exactly does that sign mean you ask? No yelling.
Now don’t get me wrong, I try not to yell. But you might say that I’ve been known to raise my voice. Sometimes I yell more than or louder than I’d like to admit. But I promise that I DO TRY not to yell. Some days I’m more successful than others.
True or False? (Mouse over pictures for answers.)
T/F: Today’s lunch was consumed at the computer.
T/F: Greek yogurt and maple syrup make a great dessert.
T/F: I gave Maxine PB Cups today for no good reason.
Zak and Ava caught a catapitter caterpillar today.
Click here for a close up.
T/F: I invented this idea.
T/F: Grapes with seeds are cool.
T/F: Apples with cinnamon rock.
T/F: Ava picked 1000 green beans from our garden today.
Today’s homeschooling adventure was just that – quite the adventure!
We met up with a bunch of homeschooling families today for a Fossil Walk.
We took a 10 minute hike through this creek bed to make our way to the dig site.
Holy bedrock.
This was the first fossil we found, which explains why I took a picture of it. We “think” this was a part of a trilobite – an extinct marine creature that is only a mere 380 million years old. Finding pieces of a trilobite is common, finding a trilobite perfectly in tact is rare and would score you major archeology nerd points. No one hit the fossil jackpot today, but we had fun trying.
Exercise this morning is going to be in the form of a homeschooling adventure. My mom is coming to stay with Maxagirl while Ava and I take off on a little road trip.
I enjoyed my breakfast with staying power!
I ate while I packed our lunch
and started compiling the stuff we need to take with us today.
Nothing like eating breakfast when you’re tearing around the house like a mad woman. OK in truth I just walked around normally, but sometimes I like to call myself a mad woman. “Walking around the house like a mad woman” just doesn’t paint the same kind of picture.
I didn’t really intend for today to be a day full of experiments, but who doesn’t want to want to be a their own lab rat? I mean really.
We met our friends at the park and had a neat activity planned that all the kids loved, including mine.
Clear as mud, no?
We had a to walk around the playground and find the shapes drawn in the upper left corner of each box. Then the bottom two boxes were for any other shapes we found.
Cigarette butt? Ummm, I think that’s a tube? Yeah, draw a tube.
Party in the park!
We had fun at the park today with rulers and colored pencils learning about vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, and the different kind of shapes we can make with these lines. Good stuff.
Maxine wants to hear that last bit on “vertical lines” one more time though.
We worked on our balance and poise a bit too.
Running short on time, I threw everything portable I had into a bag before we ran out the door. We had a small lunch at the park, lets call this Lunch Part I.
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