Cookies

All Sammy need to make cookies was the excuse of a visitor..... She found the recipe on the internet and did it all herself.  The only evidence I found when I came home from the airport was the mice!

Bats

by Ben

• Bats are good
• Put in a bat house to get rid of them maybe going in your house
• Bats are not birds
• The ears of a bat are extremely sensitive to sound
• Bats are not blind as most people believe

Final Fact: Bats are extremely creepy when they are in the living room in the middle of the night and your dad is out of town and you are sleeping in the living room and your mom is too much of a spaz to do anything about them as they fly around your living room screaming while your three cats try to catch them.

Nature Museum up North

We had a great time at the Nature Museum in Monshire with Miss Tressa yesterday!  The kids enjoyed the outdoor water exploration and the nature trails.

YeeHaw!

 

Found us a new swimmin' hole at the river.  It is fine!

BTW.. the rapids aren't too deep and the current where we go is pretty gentle.  Maisie pointed out as she shot out of the rapid "Wow, Mother Nature made a great water slide".  I couldn't agree more!

Blueberries!

The best part of July in Vt is not the fourth like we thought, it is blueberries!  The kids have gone picking with me twice and we've picked about fifteen pounds.  Let's hear it for child labor!

Maisie's Art Camp

Maisie has been having her own art camp

Here she is with her drawing that she had the Polly Pockets pose for - I guess she does have the creative gene after all!

One Week at Summer Camp

You wouldn't believe the fun Ben and Sam had at just a week of summer camp.  In only a few hours a day they came home with enough happiness to last weeks!  Lots of crafts, good old fashioned games, and stilt walking. 

The kids practiced walking on stilts all over MSA and then walked to school and back which is up (and then back down) a pretty steep hill.  The loved the reactions they got from everyone who saw them out walking although Sam asked me why teens swore so much .  When I asked her what she meant she said everytime a teenager saw them they did a double take and yelled "Holy ****"!  I told her not to take it personally it was simply shock and awe and that teenagers sometimes have a hard time expressing themselves. :-)