Wednesday June 5 , 2013

Ethan has started back to Gymnastics.  I have no idea how he can do any of the stuff I see him and his class mates do - but they manage to do the twists, turns, jumps etc. with aplomb.
As the boys exited the gym, I noted that they were all very serious minded young men and quite good looking - the bunch of them.   Yep, I can see them at the Olympics some day - and every young woman in the world will drool over how handsome they are.....although I wonder just how many of these boys will stick it out to that level.  After all the whole gym smells like foot odor.  I guess if you want to be a gymnast, foot odor and chalk are part and parcel of your existence.

The new house has a vast garden of mint plants that have gone absolutely wild.  Jacob has lamented that the place looks really overgrown - and it does.  So this morning, the children and I went out to pull mint up by its roots.  We had a great time.  In the middle of this chore, the siren went off for the tornado warning system.  It is very loud and I doubt if anyone would not hear it.  The kids thought we should go to the basement, but the sky was clear blue and no cloud to be seen.  So I had them keep pulling mint out of the ground.  there was a large stand of sunflowers in the middle of it and those got pulled out as well.  Under the overgrowth, I found some strawberries growing.  I showed them to the children, and Lyla reached down and pulled it off the vine and then complained that it was not red, like the ones from the store.  We told her not to puck the strawberry but she would not listen.  I was totally surprised to find the strawberry plants.

there were a lot of ladybugs on the mint.  Two of them were mating and Oliver observed them and said, I guess they really like each other because one of them is hugging the other one.

For a break in the day, we went to "Lost in Fun" and the kids had a great time.  It is a play place where kids can be kids and no one gets excited about squealing, laughter, running, jumping, sliding etc.  Got a 15% discount for taking three with me, but the food there was VERY EXPENSIVE, so we did not eat there but rather came home to snack before going to pick up Sara from her last day of work and then take Ethan to Gymnastics.

I think the kids had a wonderful day.