The Joys of Life: July 2008

Catching Up

So I have been behind on my blogging lately so I'll try to catch up here briefly. I'm posting some pictures of Jonathan's flowers. He planted snapdragons and morning glories this year. The morning glories are not blooming yet but the snapdragons are.

Snapdragons

More Snapdragons and Jonathan's bean plant. He actually got several green beans this year off of that plant. Maybe about ten and it is still blooming.

The morning glories, you'll have to turn your head sideways. I did not have have time to fix the picture.

We also did another nature center program last Wednesday, the river romp in the Little Harpeth River. Actually it was more like a stream. Anyway we got wet and saw a lot of creatures including snakes which I was not happy about. But it was a baby snake and the boys enjoyed getting to touch it. I'm learning not to scream and run like a little girl when I see snakes these days. I'm raising boys and learning to endure all things boyish. What was amazing to me was that my boys managed to get completely wet because they both slipped on rocks and fell in. No one elses kids got as wet as mine. Oh well, they had fun and learned about watersheds and conservation and recycling and not polluting the streams and rivers they get their drinking water from. I learned alot too. Today we go to the ocean in motion program to learn how the ocean affects and affected Tennessee. They said prepare to get wet and dirty so I can only imagine what we are in store for. I'll try to remember the camera this time.

Flying High

A couple of weeks ago we went to a nature center program about model airplanes. Jonathan was very excited. It was fun and we learned a lot. There is a group of retired gentlemen who make and fly their model airplanes on a daily basis. We also learned that this can be an expensive hobby, but that did not stop Jonathan's interest. I told him when he gets a little older we will talk about it. Nicholas enjoyed looking at the planes, but it did not hold his interest long.

And Away We Go

So Jonathan decided he wanted to make an airplane. He asked his Grammy to bring him some boxes from work and voila he is flying. Nicholas is the co-pilot. He has cool flying goggles on in the last picture. Don't you just love the imagination of children. Oh Grammy helped him build it too.