From Sunday: photographing raindrops.

Update...we found a bow

- from my phone

Hairdo due jour

Side bun.

Volleyball

Double header. Won 6-0. All that serving practice paid off.

Restaurant pizza

Not homemade tonight.

Confused chicadee

 

Math homework

You should start to notice a pattern.

For emily

Not sure if you can see the numbers.  She has 7 in a square ( hop on one foot)  and the next row is 2 squares next to each other, a minus in one and and a 3 in the one beside it ( land on 2 feet) and then the next row (hop on one foot) is a square with a 4 in it.  Then she turns around and does it the other direction but does addition.  Make sense?
She has a few certain facts that will not stick in her head so we are trying every thing.

Edit:  This picture is actually 9-5=4.

Fact practice hopscotch

7-4=3

Serving practice

Homework

Quick picture of homework in progress. We are super busy with homework and sports and friends this year. 

First day pictures

Ok, here are the pictures you've all been waiting for.  My lesson from this is to be careful what time consuming traditions you start, because you'll be expected to repeat them.  I edited the wrong picure too, I have one of her holding up 3 fingers for 3rd grade, but I put the wrong one in.  I'll fix it next year.  Remember you can click on the pictures to view them larger.

Headed to 3rd grade

Fairy house by parker

This is Parker! No, No, No not in the picture, i'm typing. I bet your wondering "WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT?"

Well, it is a house for ME to live in! just kidding it's a house for my fairy garden, I painted it myself. Here is the front. I also decorated it by myself!

And here is the top. On the back of the house there are orange polka dots. You can see the stepping stones 

and that I took this picture on the stove! He! He! :0 :)

Taco recipe

Parker wanted me to post a picture of her taco invention.  It's Mexican rice, little bit of mashed potatoes, a lot of avocado all wrapped up in a "shell" of Canadian bacon.  Maybe she's channeling Julia Childs on her almost 100th birthday.  Bon appetit! 

Happy 4th

Parker decorated her bike and rode it in the neighborhood parade today.

Random pictures

Here are some pictures from around Memorial weekend.  Need to post them before I forget about them.

Driving the Jet Ski.  Notice that Bob's hands are behind him.  She could have done this for hours.

Fishing with Papa.  There was no catching.

First blackberry harvest.  There were many many more handfuls to come.

Pretty daylily.

Magic kingdom

Notice the stuffed animal is wearing a dress fashioned from a shopping bag.

...via Android phone

Leader hatches

I'm not sure if "hatches" is the right word.  I'm sure Parker knows, but if I ask her, she'll be hanging over my shoulder for the duration of this post, and then you won't have any words to read.  

A few days after Follower came out of his chrysalis, so did Leader.  He looks exactly like Follower, even though his chrysalis was green and not brown, so I guess he was either camouflaging himself, or he had just eaten a lot more parsley.  

Leader was a much friskier butterfly than Follower, so I don't have any pictures of him in captivity - I was afraid to open the lid.  He hatched first thing in the morning, but Parker insisted I keep him cooped up until after Bob go home to see him.  

Releasing Leader

He immediately flew up over the top of the roof, and I didn't get a good picture.  He looked just like his roommate though.  

Good closeup of Follower

Note to Aunt Norma - Thanks for noticing our Vitex - it is a Shoal Creek variety - we planted it last year and we are enjoying its color immensely this spring and summer!  It seems to bring out the color of all the other blooming plants. 

Another bird ID

These are some bird pics from the spring.  I had a lot of traffic here for a couple weeks when the cedar tree berries were just right.

This is some kind of woodpecker, right?


Him and his wife...

This might be a different bird.  They would hand upside down and get the berries at the ends of the branches.  

I loved this little guy.  Doesn't he look so fluffed up and cold?

He's noticed me.  Not amused by the attention I guess. 

Is this how a bird moons someone?

So lets see who ID's the woodpecker first.....my mom or my nephew.  On your mark, get set, go!