Some Fun

We had some random outings. This one was with a neighbor. Right after Christopher started school, I was trying to keep Mark and Anna entertained. There is a great little (mostly flat) trail that the kids enjoyed not too far from the temple. It took all of an hour to complete the loop, but that was about right for them. Anna enjoying the outdoors. She has a lot of tomboy in her because of having two older brothers, but there is never any doubt that she is a princess as well!

There was a monarch festival at which they released a monarch every 10 minutes. My kids chased after this one, but fortunately left it alone and only observed.

They had lots and lots of chrysalises (how is that plural?) and we even saw some emerging.

They put on some silly show with these adults who dressed up and told about the life cycle.

And then there was this. Christopher was very upset that he had to be the chrysalis as he thought it was the most boring. We got a milkweed plant for free while we were there and they thoroughly inspected it to make sure there were no monarch eggs on it. We don't have a yard, but we do have a balcony, so we put it out there and low and behold, a few weeks later we had monarch caterpillars eating our plant. I would like to think that maybe a monarch came and landed and laid its eggs there and that they weren't overlooked. We watched them get nice and fat and Christopher even took them in to school as they were learning about life cycles of butterflies at the time. Then, one day we saw a trail of their droppings and assumed they were off to build their cocoons. We never knew where they went, but we are hoping that we helped with some monarch butterflies out there!

We have had a lot of rainy weekends and this one was one of the first ones, but we ventured out anyways to an Agricultural Farm about 45 minutes from our home and heard a bluegrass concert and rode on the tractor. It was really easygoing and a lot of fun.