(As portrayed by Mom & Dad)
Today we colored Easter eggs after nap time. I liked getting the color all over my hands.
I really only wanted to make pink, green and blue.
This one was white. then it was ORANGE!
My finished eggs.
Emmerson and I loading our eggs into the storage try for drying.
I was convinced that Emmerson had more than I did!!!
Aren’t they pretty! 🙂
After 17 long grueling hours in the car with just Mom and Emmerson we made ti to Ohio. We actually had a nice drive and sang lots of songs, watched a few movies and ate a LOT of snacks! The first evening we were here we just played in the mud and ran around the yard until we were exhausted. Mommy got some books and videos from the library and ran a few errands while we hung out with Grandma Susie and Great Grandma Barbara. After a good nights rest we were all raring to go. Mommy took us to the YMCA to play on the playground. Emmerson and I loved the cool bouncy see-saw type thing.
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They also had this long thing to climb across. Whenever you moved on it it shifted up or down. It was really hard at first but we both got the hang of it.
After getting cleaned up and having some down time we played in the yard again. This time we took the pine cones we collected yesterday and made some sort of soup!
It needed LOTS of moss and mud.
Emmerson is a good lab assistant. He is kind of like Igor in the Franny K Stein books…. except he talks a bit more! 🙂
Working hard digging worms and catching bugs. Worms are not as fun this year. I am kind of too grown up for them. Plus, I don’t like worm guts! EWWW!
I showed off the bugs I caught.
April fools! It was just dirt!
Maybe I can trick Grandma Susie now!
APRIL FOOLS!
I tried all day to trick people! I failed most of the time but got a few good ones… like accidently setting off Great Grandma’s LifeLine emergency button that calls 911!!! WOOPS! April fools, huh?
We went with a local homeschoolers group to Fort De Soto Park. We got there a bit early and ran around in the fields and got the lay of the land.
I found a cannon and thought that the inside of it was really neat.
I liked shouting as loud as I could into the cannon!
When everyone was there we started our tour. We learned all about how the land was when this was an active fort. We saw a video of how they loaded and fired the cannons. It was pretty amazing to know how much work went into firing the cannon ONCE!
I thought is was unny that they had so many different playing cards. Some of the displays had little tiny card and others had normal sized ones. I guess even in times of war you have to have some fun!
I eventually began to misbehave and Mommy & Daddy locked me into the jail!!! Not really!
Emmerson wanted nothing to do with the fort and found a neat tree to play around. It was cold out and we were not dressed right for the weather, hence Emmerson in shorts and a snow hat! It eventually warmed up and he refused to take it off, silly brother!
2 of the original 8 BIG cannons in the fort.
Everyone sitting around learning about the history of the fort. I was sitting very patiently until I saw some kids climbing the cannons.
Soon after all the kids (except a small handful) were climbing the cannons, even though they were told not to!
Mommy shuffled me to a different cannon so i was less tempted to climb and get in trouble. I had a nice time pretended I was going to turn it and fire it at invaders!
I tried to convince another boy to help me.
But he said the cannon wasn’t meant to move and gave up on me.
We had a nice time at the fort but were not pleased with several other parents values and parenting skills. We left a bit early and didn’t finish the fort. My behavior wasn’t the greatest but all in all considering what all was happening, I faired pretty well.