The last 2 months recap

I can not believe its been 2 months since I blogged about whats been going on. Probably because sooo much has been going on that I haven't had time to blog.lol  SO let me think.... Landon started soccer and his season was pretty much a wash from all the crazy rain we got. Poor guy, but he still had a good time. He even got MVP at one of his games.  He also went door to door singing songs to raise money for relay for life as well as sold goodies at our garage sale. He raised a total of $38.00 and walked 4 miles at the actual event. We also went hiking to Charleston falls and collected bugs and rocks. More rocks than bugs made it home though.

catching a bug from dads shirt

more like a trickle than a fall really

I decided to take a different route with Homeschooling and go with a less academic aproach. we finished up with the letter j is for Jump doing a number of things from hopscotch to listening to the jump jump song. Thats when the caterpillars arrived. Some months back I had bought a clearanced butterfly habitat and thought it might be useful later. We placed the order and caterpillars arrived in the mail. Crazy what you can get by mail these days=)  Maddie called them yucky harry worms.lol  They were fun to watch grow and change into HUGE caterpilars, we had 5 total.

During the month we must have read Eric Carls The Very Hungry Caterpillar a hundred times. My favorite was using her hands to stamp her very own caterpillar. We watched a great time lapsed video early on to show Maddie that these would in fact become her beloved butterflies. All in all I think she got the idea, but was less than thrilled when they had to be released.

So the last couple months we have covered the butterfly life cycle and learned about gardens. In fact we planted strawberries and can pick our very own berries every week. Its been great-except when I catch a little person eating the green ones.