And the Fun Times Continue

Nope, school did not dampen us taking opportunities to have fun.  We are just a little more timed when we do it!  We had a weekend filled with church related activities.  On Friday night, we went to the Akron RubberDucks Game with about 50 others from Salem.  It was a great night (required a hooded sweatshirt, even!).  The kids had a blast because their two friends, Ellie and Bailey, were there again with them this year.  So, it kept them awake, interested, and not whining all 10 innings!  Which is more than I can say for myself.  That extra inning led to a little complaining from me because frankly, I was exhausted after a five day week back to school!  But we made it and enjoyed the fireworks after the game.

    

The next night of that weekend, we had a Sunday school party at Lake Harmony.  Beautiful night to sit outside, and it is never too cold for kids to swim, right?  We had a smaller group than normal, but it was still a lot of fun to just hang out together. 

We biked to Ben and Steph’s house on Sunday night of that weekend, too.  It was so nice, we just couldn’t sit inside.  We got lucky that they were there when we arrived.  We talked for awhile and then invited them over for a popsicle.  It was just going to be Landen coming with us, but then the whole family biked back to our house with us!  It was a great time, and I am sure we looked like quite a spectacle!

This weekend – a three day weekend with Labor Day extending it for us – we spent Friday night at my parents’ house for supper with all the family (except Luke).  We headed to the Dariette for a “welcome back to school” ice cream treat.  It was good to connect with everyone again.  It was a later night, but so worth the time.  It was also a Friday night, so we didn’t have to wake up the next morning at a certain time.

Today (Saturday), we went with Grandma Yoh to the Museum of Natural History in Cleveland.  I hadn’t ever been before.  We got there around 10:30 and didn’t leave until about 3pm.  It was a neat place.  Some highlights included an earthquake simulator, Google earth map where we zoomed in our home and other fun places, the gem and jewels room,

dinosaur bones,

putting together a fossil,

 

earning from the live animal program about the great horned owl, box turtles, and opossums,

      

noticing an ancient fish … eating a hamburger???

and seeing the really neat live animal exhibits they have outdoors, which included “being” the animals in a few cases.   

    

We took some turns being the “i” in science as well.

    

The other fun thing that has been going on is that we are raising multiple caterpillars again this year.  This morning we missed the chrysalis formation because we had to leave for the museum.  I think had we waited an hour (or maybe two) we would have seen it happen.  I hope we get to see it for one of the two we have left.  There are also multiple caterpillars munching on our enormous milkweed plants that our outside our house as well.  Nature is so cool!