bee's as well

i forgot to mention in the last post that we discovered a huge bee hive going on on the telephone pole out in front of our house. ugh.... the kids are fascinated,as kids tend to be and i am scared to deasth one or both will get stung. We gotta figure out something to do for that so that we dont have any disasters.

April 29 2010 Butterflys are ready to fly!

This am the butterflies are ready to fly on their own. All 5 survived the cacoon,the crysallis,the dog and two 5 yr olds. So this am,with laurel is tears,aas she was not wanting to give up her butterflies we took them out onto the front porch and let them go. They sat for a bit,i am sure a bit shocked by the whole experience and then off they went. laurel did get over the grief and Zak was fine the entire time. We talked about not wanting them to live their whole short life in acage,they needed to go fly and meet friends and so on. So away they went and off laurel went to school. She did make us promise that we would get some more to raise and let go. It was really a fun thing to do.

Daddy turns 65!!

Goodness gracious!! where have the years gone? Dad turned 65 today,April 28. We were busy as usual,school,activities and Zak not feeling great still kept us sorta close to home but we did take dad for a favorite Chinese lunch after we picked up laurel from school. We were advised that he had to have fish and noodles,good luck and longevity,as you know those Chinese are big into longevity. The deal is though that you have to eat fish and leave a piece on the plate,which will then brung more to you throughout the next year. The fish was so tasty that Stan could barely stand to leave any but he did,a very small piece.

Zakary loves his sister soooooooo much

As i was cleaning off a shelf,i came across this made by Zakary in November 2009. I just had to post it. These 2 are so very close,they mean the world to eachother and although they are normal siblings for sure,fight like siblings,argue like siblings,play like siblings,bottom line.....We are so lucky to have them and they aare so lucky to have eachother.

Baby Kate turns 1 april 2010

Baby kate turned 1 on April 23 but we celebrated today,the 24th with a bday oarty at her house with friends and family. So hard to believe that this little one,so sick and helpless at birth has become such a big,smart and healthy girl. And sooooooooooo cute.

Earth Day at Vallejo Charter school

Today was the Vallejo Charter School Earth Day celebration. Laurel's Kindergarten class plantede a tree in the school garden. each child got to help dig the hole to place the Dogwood tree into. Their were other activities that the kids could do including pulling up their own carrots from the school veggie garden,washing,eating and putting the stems into the school compost pile. It was a great day,the sun was out and all the kids and families were there.

April 24 2010

Just a nnote that our 5 little crysalis are now 5 butterfly and flying all over their cage. What a fun thing to watch,so neat to watch them come out of their Crysalis and now be a fluttering all over.

5 little crysallis

WE have 5 little crysallis who have just gone into their little home/farm cage where they will sit/hang carefully we hope until they open up and turn into beautiful butterflies. We are hoping that they will stay where they are to stay until the day they are to hatch. Its really been fun to watch the caterpillar(sp?) then turn into their crysallis and now they are just hanging around waiting.

April 18 2101 2.5 days following graft surgery

This morning Zakary woke up feeling good but by far with the worst swelling so far. He is in good spirits and happy and wanting to active but is tireing fairly easily. He was busy out in the yard with dad this am getting the side yard ready for corn and sun flowers,he and laurel played outdoors alot of the am and then he even wanted to go to Mandarin class. We are staying clse to home of course and eating soft but he is for sure getting braver,this eve was laasagne. I even was able to carefully brush huis teeth this afternoon after his bath. He did complain this am one time that his mouth hurt alot but didnt mask for medicine or give me any real indication of just how badley it hurt. he didnt want stay in or not eat and he was in a very good mood. So a bit of Tylenol again is all i have had to give him.