Children are endlessly amusing!

Here's a video that CJ took last night and put on his blog. Sorry to make you blog-hop but I don't think you'll mind.

The funny thing is that Nana had given Papa a Bop-It for Father's Day and Eric HATED it! H-A-T-E-D it. He tried so hard not to cry but he was clearly WAY anxious, chewing his shirt and looking at it nervously. When Papa "lost" and it went AAAWWWOAH! then Eric lost his cool and wanted nothing to do with it, couldn't even be in the room when others were playing it...we had a long gentle session of showing him that it was not a malicious toy. So yesterday when he came up to me making the "sss, stch, stch...puh puh" percussion sounds of the bop it game, I was a bit puzzled. But then he did a perfect "Bop It! AAAAWWWOAH!" and I laughed out loud. Let's go to the video, shall we?

Stillwater is VERY FAR AWAY.

...at least it seems far when we're riding bikes there.

On Monday night we packed the kiddoes and a snack in the Burley and took off for a long-distance bike trek to Stillwater's Teddy Bear Park. Most of the journey was on the Gateway Trail, which is lovely. Some of it was on a bike path along a county road, which was Super Steep Hills. Ugh. CJ towed the burley most of the way...70 pounds of cuteness gets mighty heavy after a while.
The Teddy Bear Park is a darling place to bring kids, and it was the perfect night for it. The weather was mild and the park wasn't too crowded.

OOPS Bee uploaded pictures to CJ's profile

Listening to the kids converse in the Burley was educational and entertaining. I'm glad I got to tow them for half the homeward bound trip. Just the right amount, and CJ tackled most of the hills!

When we got home I mapped it on Mapmyrun.com and found that we had biked 27.8 miles. wowzers. That counts as a workout.

We're going BUGGY around here!

Our Super Cool School Theme this month is BUGS.
Since we had a rainy day, we dug up some worms and watched them wriggle.

We colored and used lots of bug stamps to make Big Bug Pictures. We also did lacing cards with pictures of bugs, which Nana had found at a garage sale and are absolutely GORGEOUS.

Our work time activities were matching patterns on a butterfly, sequencing shapes to make a long long worm, and matching the name with a picture of different kinds of bugs.

For lunch we ate "caterpillars" (macaroni noodles) and "ladybugs" (carrot bodies and pepperoni wings).

We sang some buggy songs (beehive song, itsy bitsy spider) and made bug houses. As much fun as the bug activities were, I'm Very Ready for Summer Weather to Stay. We want to play outside!!!