The Kids

The kids have been pretty neglected for the past couple of months.  But they have had some major happenings as well.  Ains got contacts.  She's doing great with them!  She has been swimming twice and loves that she can now see in the water.  Unfortunately for us she has to have one semi custom lense.  I'll will forever hate paying for new boxes of those.  But it's worth it.

She also finished reading all 7 Harry Potter books.  There has been a lot of Harry Potter talk around here lately.  Now she's excited to watch the movies.  If I have my way she won't get to see the last few for a few years.  We'll see who wins this battle.

Owen completed his big habitat project for second grade.  If it looks a little sparse it might be because Ainsley got nominated to help him make animals (yes they have to make animals for heavens sake!) and by the end of the evening we had a cactus, a snake, a broken bat, a frog, and an Easter Bunny.  As far as I know he will still be allowed to move on to the third grade.  We are all relieved. 

Owen has actually been doing really well in school lately.  Last week he was awarded "Pop Star" in his class and got to go eat popcorn with the principal.  He also was honored at breakfast of the champions for his first time ever.  Our school holds special breakfasts monthly to honor kids who have made accomplishments.  Teachers choose kids from their class to be honored each month.  And Owen go to go for his first time this year!

Emmie has been working really hard too.

I think she has spent the majority of her time with friends this month.  Either at her friends houses supervised, or at our house mostly unsupervised.  But all neighborhood children are alive and well.

Emmie also got to go to the zoo on a field trip.  (Technically Owen went to the zoo too, but I have a strict yearly zoo attendance policy so I didn't go with him).

This was however my most favorite trip to the zoo ever.  For two reasons.  The  monkeys were playing and going crazy in their cage and one of the monkeys peed from the top of the cage out onto the walkway.  It was a moment I will never forget.  And then the giraffes were fighting.  I don't know if they were actually fighting, but it sure looked like it!  They would swing their heads around and hit each other in the back with their heads.  It appeared to be very hard.  It was awesome.   The end.