Top Five Memories for the Week

(This was an unusually memory making week.)

5. Trip to the Zoo. Our zoo is just opening a new exhibit this year with....lions!  Every child under the age of ten is absolutely thrilled. The weather is also perfect. This is a recipe for disaster and misery in terms of zoo experience for me. Thankfully, last Friday it was pouring, pouring rain....until 3:00 when the sun came out. So we rushed up for the last few hours of zoo time. Not only did we get to see the lions with only a handful of other people. We got to enjoy the new park and bear almost all to ourselves. 

 4. One of the many things I love about where we live is that we are so darn close to the mountains. Yesterday the temperatures were heating up so we took a ten minute drive from our house to a picnic site in the canyon and let the kids go crazy. They climbed rocks, threw rocks and got dirty. I got to enjoy the mountain air and scenery and relax. Pretty much a perfect recipe for success in our family.

 3. Today the local historic farm near our house had a community fair. There was a petting zoo, wool spinning (spinning of wool? spinning wool into yarn? yarn spinning?) tractor climb on cows to milk and bees hives to observe. Going with friends made it so my kids were in heaven (despite Nathan's expression).

 2. Also today (it was a busy one) Savannah had her end of year recite for Let's Play Music. Savannah has learned to read notes (all the way to eighth and sixteenth notes!) and can identify all the notes on the key board. She can play a C scale and as well as play and identify the dominant chords in music theory. The program she is in is really incredible in the level of skill it teaches kids at such a young age, and Savannah has done such an amazing job learning it all. She works hard practicing and performed so well today. She stayed focused and had her timing perfect. I am so very proud of her!

1. Last but not least is a fun moment from last Sunday. At church the girls got an M & M game to play with their mothers. You take turns picking out an M&M and, depending on the color, you ask each other different questions. (i.e. If you pick a yellow, ask "What is something you like about me?, red "What do you like doing with me?") The question for brown  M&Ms was, "What question would you like to ask me?" Abbie mostly asked questions about what college was like.

Savannah...

Savannah asked the following for her two brown M&Ms.

"Mom, how come peregrine falcon's eat other birds?"

"Mom, how come animals still are afraid of people even if they are not protecting their babies?"

Umm........I guess if you have questions that are really pressing on your mind, this was the perfect opportunity to address them.