Once again, I have no photos to share of me with my Daddy, but I did wish him a Happy Father's Day today. I took this picture last Sunday when we had lunch together.
My kids loved what their dad chose to do for Father's Day today...
(I think Rebekah was putting a rock in her mouth. 
Another fun Father's DayToday we hosted a small gathering that we called, "David's Kindergarten Show & Tell." I had the idea at the beginning of the school year, remembering the PTO Open House that we had when I was in elementary school. I don't know if it was more important to David or to me... probably me! I've done a lot of work this year!!!
I used the bar area to display David's
Language Arts/Reading, Handwriting, Science
Math & some holiday stuff
Folder from Dinosaurs A to Z class at our homeschool co-op
Artwork displayed on the back windows
Other little booklets he made throughout the year
Blue Crab in clay
Family looking at his work
Displacement of air
and a volcanic eruption.
(sorry, we were out of red dye)
David was also in charge of serving refreshments and even planned his own menu: mayo & cheese finger sandwiches, Fritos and blue corn chips. The dip was my idea.
Elizabeth was not to be left out!
We had her notebook of coloring pages on display
Ladybugs in clayWe have entered the season again. Many of my blog posts will be gardening related. I will try to take pictures of the kids, too. : )
2 small Roma tomatoes, several Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes, 4 heads of garlic (whoo-hoo - that's 100% because I planted 4 cloves last fall as a test crop!!!), and 3 eggs. I caught Blue Beard on the nest this afternoon, so unless she moved to a different box after I saw her, she laid the egg on the far left. It's kinda olive green. That means (I assume) the other Egger laid the blue-green one and I don't know who's laying brown. Haven't seen any others in the boxes.
Today was Dad's follow-up appointment with the surgeon. Everything is healing nicely. The kids stayed with Grana so we enjoyed the outing... and the quiet! We had a nice lunch together and he was willing to go with me to the Goodwill Super Store! (It's so hard to go to Goodwill with 3 kids!) And here is the find of the day:
Metallic pink, fur lined Princess boots with glittery flowers that light up!!! For $3.00!!! They're the size larger than her summer shoes, so they should be fine when winter gets here. She has already declared, "Mama, I love these boots!" I have a feeling we'll be seeing them before winter.
And what's not to love???
I looked for some longer dresses for her, but they didn't have many dresses. I did get some little shorts to put under her dresses, though, so she won't look quite so much like a go-go dancer... except for the boots!
Oh, there's talking. Constantly. And I've had a head & neck ache for 2 days now. So sorry, but I can't remember anything that's been said. Except that there was a lot said. I'm not kidding. A lot. And much of it was loud. Much louder than inside voices should be.
Rebekah got herself stuck in this position yesterday morning. Being the good mom that I am, I ran for my camera instead of helping her. Bad move, because after that she was fussy for a lot of the day. I'll have to move faster next time.
On another note, Dad's follow-up visit with his surgeon is today. Kids will go be loud at Grana's house & hopefully we'll get a good report from the dr.
Two eggs today! And they were in one of the nesting boxes! I put some grass clippings in yesterday for nesting materials.
Dad found another blue-green egg under the water barrels, but it was cracked. Fluff and Tom got the first bite of homegrown eggs. : \ That means 3 hens now laying! I'll leave them penned a little longer tomorrow and see if any more eggs show up... in the coop! Yesterday we talked about where the blue-green eggs came from, so today David asked what laid the brown egg? : ) Now he knows that chickens can lay all different colors of eggs!
Look what I found this morning!!!! I had one more cherry tomato but I dropped it & a chicken pecked it before I could pick it up. Just yesterday, Grana asked me if I'd gotten any eggs yet. I told her, "Any day now..."
So this is my first chicken egg!!! Here it is compared to a store-bought, large egg. So I'd guess it's about medium grade and it's blue-green, so it must have come from one of the Easter egger hens. We're just believing that Blue Beard laid the egg, because she's our favorite.
Elizabeth asked when it was going to hatch. I told her this one is not going to hatch, because we're going to eat it. She replied, "I don't want to eat that egg!"
Right now my tomatoes look terrible, but there is still lots of fruit waiting to turn red.
This is why my tomatoes look so bad. I found, picked off, and fed to the chickens at least 6 of these nasty things this week... each day larger than the ones I found the day before!
I spend a good amount of time each day out there looking for them because I've chosen to be pesticide free. I need to look up what the eggs look like. I've squashed a bunch of eggs this season but apparently I missed some!
Assorted peppers are doing well. Anaheim, poblano, jalapeno... respectively.
Finally grew a marigold from seed. Never got that to happen before.
Baby Cucumber:
Pinto & Black Beans:
Corn. I didn't know if this bed would be worth growing in because there's not really any soil in it. I guess we'll have to wait & see how the corn turns out.
Elizabeth with her gourd:
I suppose in the next week, I need to make sure my children have clothes on, have hair brushed, and then take some pictures of them!
David is in charge of letting the chickens out each day. He has discovered that roosters like to fight. heh heh...
