Disection kit

I was lucky enought to score a disection kit- complete w/ fish,frog, worm and crawfish and all the goods to disect them, from a friend who does home schooling. Although I WAS NOT excited to take part in the disection I knew Emma and John would be. Emma thought it was pretty cool to have all the stuff infront of her and really enjoyed the entire process. Not once did I see her flinch or get grossed out. She cut, pulled, poked and peeled away most of that fish within an hour. She lost me at "hey Dad what do you think is inside his eyeball"? John replied, "I don't know lets take it out!" BARF Im out of here. I told her she was going to make some girl in High School very happy in their biology class when she doesn't have to do any work on disection day.

A very producitive weekend

What a beautiful mild winter we have had so far. No snow, bearly cold enough to even get out the heavy winter jackets. This weather combined with very little rain gives us no excuses to stay inside on the weekends. We had a busy Saturday of household chores. John cleaned out and organized the garage. I got my hair colored and cut by Mom and then came home to work in the front yard. I filled up one yard waste bin with half of the raking from the front "hill" and left overs from the front flower bed. I cleaned out and organized the storage bins in the camper, we must have left 29 pines in a hurry cause it was a mess. Maggie and Emma had a blast playing outside on their bikes and with sidewalk chalk.

I teased Emma that she was finally becoming a "real" little kids because at Grandma's she discovered how fun it was to climb a tree,(and fall out of one) and when we got home she FINALLY decided to try her bike. She must have grown a lot over the summer cause her feet can finally hit the ground. She is much more comfortable with this and decided it was time to GOOOOO! John watched her as she drove down the road to the far culd e sac. I think it was fun for her to be by herself and pretend that no one was watching that she was just out for a nice ride on her bike all by herself. Which of course will not happen!! ha

Sunday morning was still beautiful, a light rain, but nothing to stop us. Emma, still excited about her bike riding skills, asked to go on a ride. So we loaded up the bikes and Mags cart and rode down to a trail by the river in downtown Puyallup by Mama Stortini's. We rode the entire trail and then popped out in a residential area. Rode for a few more blocks and stopped at Stewart Elementary to play on the toys for awhile. After about 20 mins we loaded everyone back up and headed back to the car. Round trip about 3 miles.It was a long ride for all of us, my legs were feeling it on the way back. But I was so proud of Emma for doing the entire thing by herself with little complaining. Maggie was pretty good too, but was getting kinda bored locked up in her bike cage. All in all it was a great weekend. I hope that we continue to be active and get out of the house with the girls. Its so much fun.