Ten-o'clock, and all is...

well...it's not looking like THIS:

Hubby is the ONLY one asleep. There are three munchkins in various stages of having their PJ's off, playing together in Speedy's room. We still haven't found the right balance of nap/quiet time and bedtime. I'm not quite ready to sacrifice my quiet hour in the afternoon in exchange for an early bedtime, I guess. And bedtime is so sporadic around here, anyway, ranging from 8:30-10:00 (or later if there's a game or something.)

We found another caterpillar on the driveway Sunday--it looks similar to our Luna Moth from last year, (actually, I just looked at the old pictures, and it's not the same--cool, maybe we'll get to see a different kind this year!) and has already made a cocoon...so now we just have to wait till MAY. :)

As we were pulling out of the garage today, Princess asked, "How long are God's arms?"

My deeply theologically correct response: "As long as He needs them to be." It seemed to satisfy her for the time being.

I don't know where they come up with this! Maybe because we talk about God healing our owies; and Speedy did NOT want to go to the doctor with me today to have his leg checked out. "No, I want GOD to heal it!" (And maybe thinking about God touching them to heal it? Hence, how LONG would His arms have to be to do that?)

Oh, and I had to do my glucose-tolerance test today, so I had prepped Speedy that I had to drink a special drink and then wiat awhile and get some blood taken. Well, you know the nurse asks you to go to the bathroom in a cup every time. So you know Speedy asked me if that was my special drink...

Metamorphosis...Finally! **updated!

It's been a busy day. Our basement was leaking last night--it seeped in quite a bit. That gets a big ARRGH! :) Hubby estimated we've had a foot of rain. Not sure how accurate that is. We're hoping our polliwogs didn't get overflowed out of the fishpond! But, our pool in the back is full of tadpoles, as well, so there will be more to watch hopefully. The pool is as full as it's ever been. Anyway, Hubby thinks the basement leaked because the gutters were plugged with maple helicopters. ARRGH. We're drying things out.




In better news, one of our cocoons saw some action today! We thought maybe they were dead--they've been cocooned in a jar since September. We didn't get to see our Luna Moth emerging, but I looked out this afternoon and saw some big green wings in our jar, so of course we all ran out to see. It has crawled a stick out of the jar and seems to be letting its wings dry and such.


The moth came out of the brown, webby looking thing toward the bottom of the jar. In the pic below, you can kind of see the hole it came out of, below and between its wings. We're going to have a closer look at that cocoon once the moth is out of the way!

Princess drew me a butterfly picture afterward. :)
**I searched online and found out that Luna Moths don't have mouths! They don't eat--only live for a week to mate, then die. Very interesting. Ours was hanging out outside the screened-in porch for a couple days, then was gone.

Bee-youtiful

While at my parents' for Mother's Day, the kids got a bee lesson. Here they're looking at bees collecting pollen on the dandelions.
Close up. :)
Here's where the busy bees are flying back to their swarm inside the wall of a barn.
Here's one of the busy bees returning with golden pollen sacs full.
I think that having watched 'Bee Movie' this winter helped the kids know what they were seeing a little bit more. :)