Author: Mom

Well this is not my first semester, it was my first on campus class. I asked Mom to walk with me to find the classroom. She said if she walked me she had to take a photo. I was willing.  I really enjoyed my first class! Chemistry is going to be so much fun. I sat in the near empty front row. So far it seems fairly straightforward.

Back to the grind. Well, I really enjoy it so I guess it isn’t the grind. I am learning a lot and at a pace that is perfect for me. I love the face-to-face science classes. I am taking college algebra online and flying through it. Psychology is another online class and I am LOVING it! 

The weather has been amazing lately. We enjoyed a rather long hike at Honeymoon Island State Park. We saw the big eagles nest. Hopefully they lay their eggs this year in the nest! 

School starts back up next week so we took a fun day at Busch Gardens. We watched the chimps gather their food pellets and scarf down huge handfuls. The sky buckets were open. We rode a few times. Mom tricked us into riding Stanley Falls Flume. We got soaked, especially Emmerson!  The bumper cars were open for the first time in ages. We rode 5 times! Apparently today was the day of being silly and blowing off steam before school ramps up! Begging Emmerson to ride Cobra’s Curse. He still refuses. What a perfect day! I came home and one of my super worms, Brooker, finally hatched from his Pupa. He will turn all black in the next week. 

We have been staying busy. We took a few weeks off of school between semesters at SPC. I learned how to install a doorbell and chime. Decorating my gingerbread house. Mom keeps finding funny images from the new doorbell camera. Presents all wrapped and Thunder is in charge of guarding them. We have been making lots of Christmas cookies. We used up some Wilton melting candy to decorate pretzels.  Cookies and Milk for Santa. The Elf pets also voyage back to the North Pole for the rest of the year.  Santa Came! The elves left, and left us with a mess of toilet paper all over the house! Grandma got a rather large bottle of coconut rum! Costco for the win! Thunder got a new race track, well E and I got it. Thunder thinks it is his! He lives to whack at the cars as they race by. We have to drive to avoid hitting him when he lays on the track. We spent some time hunting insects in the cooler weather. I am trying to make resin forms of dead insects. So far it is a learning process. Mom did have us do some 4-H work over break. We have got to get our project books completed. We attended the arts and cooking event for 4-H at Brooker Creek. We learned how to make some yummy treats. We enjoyed a trip to visit with Grandma and Grandpa in Venice. We got new scooters for Christmas and have been enjoying taking them to the parks and zipping around.