Our Little Wonders: Cool and Breezy with a Hint of Fall

I love our new weather. LA was quite painfully hot and humid for us northern folk. Sam has finished assembling the trampoline and the children, in pants and long sleeves, are enjoying being "bounced by Daddy" at the moment. I am currently inside devouring homeschool books and websites and getting our curriculum all set and ordered for this year. I am taking a break to rest my brain and thought I'd give you all some pictures so you can play, Which Post Does that One Match With?, I put them out of order to give you a real challenge. Hope you didn't fall for that. Not enough brain power reserved for sequential posting is more like the truth. the real truth would be that I am simply not intelligent enough to post sequentially when posting this many pictures. And now .. I'll stop talking and let you get on with this fun new game, enjoy ;)

A Day at the Beach (or)

A Day at Home: due to threatening

weather that wasn't so threatening after all.

(notice the table just beyond jacob? that is the home of the 1000 piece puzzle

it is still living there only on a different table that doesn't

protrude quite as far into the kitchen. i wonder when it

will finish itself...)

You have most likely heard of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.

When your 8 year old draws a road and you find stickers of

various modes of transportation it quickly becomes;

Stick the Vehicle on the Road

(there were also airplanes in the sky but;

Stick the Various Mode of Transportation

on the Road or in the Sky, didn't quite have the

same ring to it.)

Let's hear it for the belly drummers. Coming soon to

a most reputable location near you. Sorry no sound, video

takes way too much battery when you are on your first day

of having a camera in a couple of months.

Where is the St. Bernard when you need it?

Oh the children will do just fine. Lick up quick before it's in his

nostrils guys. Eww yuck! Did I really just type that?

Who can't have fun with a little whip cream?

What a smile. What a sweet birthday boy.

The blueberry cake minus the blueberries. Who would do that?

Now that's some serious foliage. In case you are in need of your daily horticulture lesson

I will provide some scientific advice. Get the stuff early! And now for your lesson. Innocent, and quite pretty, in early spring this beautiful plant tells you it is rhubarb. Carefully preserve it's habitats (everywhere) while salivating over the jams and pies you will make upon harvest. Innocent observation; why in tarnation are my kids covered in cockleburs every time they venture anywhere out of the house? Innocent observation noted. Oh my friend, what looks and acts like rhubarb, does not smell, taste, nor grow like rhubarb. One smart Grandpa Lockhart later and we can't chop the stuff down fast enough! It's skunkweed my friends, skunkweed. What you say? Well it grows like mad, has roots at least 2 inches in diameter (and those are the small ones), and flowers beautifully. And then. Oh and then. Those beautiful flowers go and dry up on you and become what? Cockleburs. Everywhere. And boy do we have plenty of the gorgeous stuff. Because, of course, each bur has about a million little seeds just waiting for some time to nestle in and grow. No wonder "rhubarb" is growing all over our lawn, in every garden, and well just everywhere! Transplants are free for the taking.