Well, it looks highly unlikely that'll I'll be able to blog this week. I brought along my old laptop so I could blog from the hotel but there's one problem...
It decided not to work when I got here to my dad's house. Something with the wireless. It works (partially) it is is plugged in but the hotel has wireless only. So, I'll probably not be able to update the blog until I get home Friday. Bummer!
If I'm not back, now you'll know why.
Have a great week!
...and through the woods to grandfather's house we go...
After I drag the sleeping bags and picnic stuff out of the attic...
After I pack up Josh's suitcase...
After I pack up everyone's toiletries...
After I pack up the camera, laptop, and everything else...
After I clean out the car...
After I stop by a friend's house to pick up something...
After I get gas...
After I grab some drinks, snacks, and lunch...
We're heading 2 1/2 hours south to Papa's house in Portland. We'll spend Saturday and Sunday with my father, my grandmother, and my aunt. My father went grocery shopping with the kids in mind, bless his heart. He bought hamburgers, corn dogs, dinosaur chicken nuggets, chips, watermelon, chocolate ice cream, chocolate milk, and oreos. Sound like a kids' menu?
On Monday, we'll be up early as I have to go into downtown Portland to meet someone to pick up our Portland Attractions Pass. Then we return to Papa's house to drive him to the hospital for a little outpatient surgery. Once we return him home to the comfort of his bed, we leave to check into the hotel and join our school group.
The kids are excited about staying in a hotel...with cable...with a pool. We'll probably eat and hit the pool. Tuesday we are going to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. I've heard great things about it. Tuesday night we'll eat in our room, hit the pool, watch cable, enjoy ourselves. Wednesday we are going to the Portland Zoo. Hopefully, it won't rain; the weather forecast says "few showers". Wednesday night will look like Tuesday's. Thursday we'll be going to the Oregon History Center. I called them and they said our visit is likely to be about two hours. Our group heads home while we head to the Portland Children's Museum. After that, we plan to go out for dinner before hitting the cable TV or pool. Friday we'll check out of our room (we're extending our stay a day) before heading over to the World Forestry Discovery Museum. After a couple of hours there, we'll head home. This is just my idea of a perfect trip...all play and no time to stop and breathe. So much fun!
I'll be blogging in the evenings, probably late, about the day's events. See you all in Portland!
Subway has finally issued a direct apology (vs. Scholastic doing it for them) and posted it on their website. I believe our cumulative response was successful in gaining Subway's attention.
On an interesting and related note, my husband has been in email contact with the CEO of a social media measurement company. The business of this company is to monitor social media (ie. blogs) to determine how the public views their clients. This is an important service in this day and age because, as you have seen, word spreads like wild fire through blogs. When we like something, we tell everyone about it and it enhances the company's sales. When we don't like something, we also tell everyone about it and it hurts the company's sales Monitoring what people are saying about a company allows that company to have an immediate and appropriate response to their customers. This CEO commented on my husband's blog with his expert opinion on how Subway handled this issue. The basic gist? Subway shot itself in the foot on this one in many ways.
Tonight I found an article written by Jeannie Fulbright titled Should I Take This Path. The article contains two sections, both of which spoke to me and reminded me of a longing that I often find in my heart.
In A Journey Worth Taking she speaks about how homeschooling allows us to spend significant amounts of time with our children. Because of the sheer contact hours we have with our children, we have a better understanding of them, what makes them tick, what they are thinking, what teachings they need. If our children were away from us for six hours a day at school, this understanding would be much harder to come by, perhaps even impossible. (I'm not saying that parents who chose public or private school don't understand their children, but I do believe that the depth of understanding I'm speaking of would be very difficult to come by without spending, literally, sixteen plus hours a day, every day, with them. It also gives us the necessary time to instill our beliefs and values in our children in such a way that the world's influences won't sway our children so easily. This is the reason many Christians chose to homeschool. It is just too easy for the values taught in school (either through the curricula, the teacher, or the peers) six hours a day to over-ride the parent's values taught a couple hours a day.
Another thing she mentions in this section is how things were in the pre-industrial world. How I long to return to the days where extending families lived together and communities worked side by side for the benefit of everyone in the community. I'm not talking about socialism here but rather grandfathers teaching their sons and grandsons the find art of being a good man and grandmothers passing down her knowledge and wisdom to her daughters and granddaughters. It takes time, a lot of time, to teach the fine art of caring for children, cooking, cleaning the home, being a good wife, being a godly woman, good social skills and manners, and other womanly arts to their daughters. If only my mother and grandmother had taught me these things, my life today would be so much different, better, less stressful, less frustrating, less broken. Life would be so much easier if family still existed in a healthy form and children learned from their elders. Instead, two things in modern life hurt us. One is that we send our children away to learn academics and values from someone else. The other is that dysfunctional families are the norm, rather than the exception, these days. Many of us are left to learn important lessons in life on our own after we reach adulthood. By homeschooling, it is my hope that I can teach my children the lessons that I am still learning so that they have less to learn (the hard way) when they reach adulthood.
The other section of her article, Doing Enough, reminded me not to make the mistake that I've been heading towards for next year. Finding out that my daughter is "gifted" sent me on a course of attempting to fill her time with more and harder academics. I felt that if it only took two hours a day to cover all of our topics, then I must not be doing enough even though two standardized tests prove that she is learning way more than enough. I needed to make the work harder so it would take her a "normal" amount of time to do it and give her more subjects to cover since she was capable. However, I forgot that by doing that, I would probably squash all joy of learning and prevent her from developing her God-given talents. So, I think I'll back off a little. Yes, I'll probably make her work a little harder next year. Yes, I'll probably add a formal subject or two. But no, I won't try to fill six hours a day with bookwork. Rather, I'll leave some time open to allow God to work with her to develop the gifts He has given her.
So, thank you Jeannie, for reminding me why I'm homeschooling and sharing your wisdom with me so that I don't make that big mistake next year.
It was interesting to see that Subway's contest website has corrected the spelling errors that we (as in homeschoolers) noticed so quickly. There are no more bastkets and Untied States now.
On a more serious note...
Apparently, Scholastic (who is also a sponsor of this contest) has posted a public apology on several homeschool forums. While they include Subway in their apology, it is not apparent that Subway has, themselves, apologized. American Thinker covers the full story of the contest, the backlash, the apology, and a previous blunder made by Subway with a similar backlash.
Another thing homeschoolers can do...
I printed the contest page and highlighted the home school exclusion clause and took it to them. The woman I spoke with agreed that it was unfair to exclude homeschooled kids. She wants to let her regional manager and owner know about the contest and its exclusion, the response to it in in the homeschool community, and how it could hurt their business. Perhaps if Subway corporate received pressure from their franchise owners they'll change their practices.
So, it might be a good idea to visit your local Subways and let them know what's going on.
We headed up to the Museum of Flight yesterday. While I've been there before (about 13 years ago), my family had not. We chose yesterday for several reasons: the Cascadian Warbirds were going to be there, a restored B-17 Bomber was going to be there, and we wanted to see their space exhibit to go along with the astronomy unit study we are finishing up
We arrived early hoping the arrival of the Cascadian Warbirds would be interesting. They were arriving at 9am and would be landing at Boeing Field. This turned out to be a bad choice for us for several reasons. The Warbirds came in one at a time with fairly long intervals in between, making it rather boring for the kids. In addition to that, it was sunny and a bit too warm. We thought to go into the museum rather than wait out the rest of the planes but found out it didn't open until 10am so we were stuck waiting nearly an hour for the museum to open.
Once we were finally able to enter the museum, it was much more interesting. We headed straight for the space exhibit where we found both actual artifacts and mock-ups.
This cosmonaut is sporting a suit similar to the one Yuri Gagarin wore on his trip to space as the first man in space. This rare suit is one of nine used by the Vostok cosmonauts; and one of two in the U.S. The model sits in an ejection seat which was made from parts of seven ejection seats manufactured in 1960. According to the sign, the Russian cosmonauts parachuted down to land unlike their American counterparts who land in the water. The orange color of the suit was to assist in locating the cosmonaut and came with an inflatable rubber collar to keep their heads above water should they land in water.
This giant, rusty ball is an actual satellite that went up into space. It is a Resurs-500 F-1 capsule called the Zvezda Kolumba and was launched into space in 1992. Also in this part of the exhibit was a mock up of Sputnik and many other exhibits about anything from x-planes to the space shuttle.
Near the back of this exhibit area, we found some of old computer terminals from Mission Control. I believe I read a sign that said these were actual computers terminals from long ago.
Then we found a second space exhibit area where we saw this: a model of an Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle from 1971. It allowed the astronauts to explore up to six miles away from their landing site. Six miles was determined to be the maximum distance they could go and still have enough life-support to hike it back to the landing site should the rover fail. Here, Scott and Josh, are checking it out.
Another cool find in this room were simulators. Here are photos of Mika, Sammy, and Josh trying to land the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center. All three crashed landed every attempt. Scott crashed the lunar module on another simulator.
We also saw this model of Sojourner. According to the nearby sign, operating this remote control vehicle took lots of patience. Instructions from Earth took 11 minutes to reach it and then it only moved two feet per minute.
Other interesting things in this part of the exhibit were an actual moon rock, a model of the Apollo Soyuz capsule with an open door and dummy inside (it was a TIGHT fit), an exhibit showing both American and Russian space food, and a mock up of a space station lab that you could walk through. Of course, there were many more things in there, as well.
The museum has a kids zone with more interactive, hands on activities. In the zone, we found two hanglider simulators, a couple of tiny (but real) airplanes to sit in, and activities teaching the kids about roll, pitch, and yaw. Outside the zone, we found a family craft area where we made these space station models.
On our way out of the kids zone, we found this photo opportunity. Here's Mika as an astronaut on a space walk. I wonder if she's looking at an oncoming meteorite or something. She looks awfully worried, doesn't she.
Sammy thought space walking was pretty cool too.
After the space exhibit, we looked around the Great Gallery, a six story monstrosity of a room. It houses 39 full-size historical planes, including a Blue Angel and the M-21 Blackbird (that's the big one in the center of the photo). To the bottom right of the photo, you'll see a light blue section; that's an exhibit showing historical flight attendant uniforms. Some of the uniforms were quite colorful. Another interesting part of this room was the front portion of an United Airlines plane (737,747?) that you could walk in. You could sit in the seats and view a video or view the cockpit through Plexiglas.
The Great Gallery also housed these cockpits that you could sit in. Sammy and Josh are sitting in a Northrop F/A-18L Hornet mock-up. Mika is in a Blackbird's nose section which was recovered from a take-off crash in 1968.
The museum also gives kids the opportunity to learn about air traffic control in this control tower mock-up overlooking Boeing Field's landing strips. The hallway leading up to the control tour is full of stations with written information and phones you can listen to. In the control tour, you find more information stations. Sammy spent his time yelling at the imaginary person on the other end of the phone while the parents chuckled. After a helicopter flew by, we all heard tell his phone contact, "I just saw a helicopter fly by and its only suppose to be planes!"
After the control tower experience, we headed across the street to the airpark. There we walked through the first Air Force One place which carried Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Everything was protected by Plexiglas but we got a kick out of seeing Kennedy's pipe stand, the very old "state of the art" communications equipment, and the very old microwave oven. After that, we walked through the Concord that you see behind Scott and Josh. It's a pretty cool, sleek looking plane.
There was so much to see yet we still didn't get to two whole exhibit areas. One was the Stories of Courage exhibit about WWI and WWII and the Red Barn which houses exhibits on Boeing's beginnings.
Sprittibee just posted about this on her website. Here's what I have to say about it.
Until today, we frequently ate at Subway. Twice a week, we are at the YMCA, which has a Subway in it. Often we have lunch there or even just a snack. Sometimes, we'll eat there as a family when we are out and about on one of our many field trips. Not anymore.
Subway is hosting a story-writing contest . Here's how you enter. Parents have their kids write a story that has a beginning, middle, and an end using one of their rather cheesy story starters or the parent and child can write the story together. If possible, they would like your story to include details describing random acts of fitness. The grand prize is athletic equipment for your child's school ($5000 value), scholastic gift basket for your home, a $100 Subway card, and your story published on their website and in Parent & Child magazine. Six runners up will receive a scholastic gift basket and $50 Subway card. Every entry submitted with a Subway receive will receive a free Scholastic book. Sounds good. There's a problem, though. Here is an excerpt from their contest details page (emphasis mine):
Well, that's interesting. How very discriminatory of them!2. ELIGIBILITY. Contest is open only to legal residents of the United States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.
In case you aren't aware of it....
You can watch coverage of NASA's Phoenix Mars landing today on NASA TV. Coverage begins at 6pm eastern with first confirmation of touchdown coming at 7:53pm eastern. Coverage continues to 11pm eastern. Watching this will be a great opportunity for students interested in astronomy or those studying it as part of their schooling as we are.
While you are waiting for the landing coverage, check out NASA's Phoenix website for more information about Phoenix and its mission.
Here's this week's list. It was more difficult to research considering all my bookmarks are on my laptop which is currently in the mail to Texas to be fixed. But I found a few things for you anyway. I doubt we'll have time to enjoy any of these events. The kids and I will be busy cleaning up the house, doing laundry, and packing. We leave next Saturday (May 31st) for a full week end Portland). So, you'll have just have to enjoy an event for us.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Today is Children's Day at the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle. Children's activities include kite making, puppetry, folktakes, music, and public tours. This event takes place between 11am and 3pm. Cost is $10 (includes 3 children under the age of 12) and $5 for seniors, disabled, and students. Tea for 2 children and their accompanying adult is $10 with reservations. Make a full day of it by visiting other areas in the arboretum. The Washington Park Arboretum is a great park full of beautiful trees and flowers labeled with their common and scientific names and country of origin. You can also follow a short trail to the north end where the park meets the Montlake Cut for a beautiful view. Picnic there or follow the marsh trail across the water for a neat adventure. At the south end of the park, just before you leave, there is a baseball diamond. Near there are some swings with the longest chains I've ever seen; makes for a great swing ride.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
It's farmer's market season for Tacoma. Vist the Tacoma Farmer's Market downtown on Broadway, between 9th and 11th, from 9am to 2pm. Buy the freshesh produce and flowers, have lunch, visit craft vendors, and enjoy the music. Thursday's music is Jazz Strings. Park at the Tacoma Dome station for free and take the link rail down to the market. (hint: the kids will love the link rail ride)
Saturday, May 31, 2008
The Puget Sound Antique Aircraft Club is doing a fly-in at the Museum of Flight. They will be at the museum ramp from 9am to 4pm. The museum's website suggests coming early to see the eye-catching landing. Seattle Child's website indicates that this is a free event (but won't include admission to the museum). Entrance into the museum is $14 for adults, $13 for seniors, $7.50 for children ages 5-17, and free for children under 5 if you wish to see the rest of the museum while you're there.
Petpalooza takes place today at Auburn's Game Farm Park. The event begins with a human/dog 3k walk (fee) and continues with pet-related stage events, canine disc championships, petting zoo, vendor booths, and more. The event has free admission with the exception of the walk.
Today and tomorrow is the Seattle Wing Luke Asian Museum's grand reopening ceremony. Ribbon cutting is at 10am with a multicultural drumming performance. Sunday at 11:30am is a cultural ceremony with lion and dragon dances. Timed tickets will be issued at the celebration. This event is free and open to the public.
The Tacoma Astronomical Society is hosting one of their free public viewing nights from 9am to 11:45pm at Pierce College near Fort Steilcoom. The event features indoor lectures and demonstrations regardless of the weather. On clean nights, they set up telescopes for observations of the moon, planets, stars, etc. Tonight's theme is The Solar System. There is no charge but donations are accepted. All ages and knowledge levels are invited.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
See Saturday - Seattle Wing Luke Asian Museum
I've been thinking curriculum for what seems like forever and I still don't know what I'm going to do. I do know that we are adding in more subjects and work next year but not which curriculums we will be using. Why do making decisions have to be so hard?! Here are my scattered thoughts that bring no conclusions:
Spelling - Looking for something new, especially for Mika. I'm considering Spelling Workout which is a similar format to what we are used to. I'd just have to figure out which levels to use. I've also considered Spelling Power because of it only requires the kids to study the words they don't already know which would be good for Mika.
Phonics - Probably stick with Spectrum for Sammy and discontinue phonics for Mika.
Grammer - This is the subject I'm stuck on the most. Spectrum Language Arts would probably work just fine for Sammy but it has too much repetition for Mika. I'm looking for a good overview of all grammar rather than something that will have lots of repetition and review with only a small amount of new material added each year doesn't work well for her. Rod & Staff has been recommended but I'm not sure even after looking at their samples. I still have to think about it.
Penmanship - I've held off on cursive with Mika so she needs to learn it next year. Sammy wants to learn cursive as well. I don't know what to use but I do know that I want the traditional cursive I learned in school and not the new italics style.
Language - I see the benefit of teaching Latin and it has been recommended for Mika. Scott thinks I should teach them Spanish. Thanks to tae kwon do, Sammy wants to learn Korean. I don't think three languages at once would be a good idea. Whichever we chose, we'll probably use Rosetta Stone online since I'll have access to it.
Math - We'll continue with Math-U-See. Mika will be in delta. Sammy will do beta and gamma per his request.
Social Studies/History/Geography/Science - We'll do some kind of unit study. There's a good chance will continue with what we are already doing which is following Konos scope and sequence but personalizing it our way. I'm also looking at My Father's World which I want to explore in detail at the curriculum fair next month.
Art/Drawing - Mika wants to learn to draw. Rod & Staff's sells artpacs that have a nice looking scope and sequence. I'm also interested in GeeGuides. There's a website that I'm aware of that would work as a springboard of me teaching it myself since I have experience in drawing. I'm not sure what I'll do.
PE - Tae kwon do for Sammy. Big ol' question marks for Mika.
Writing - We've started and I'll continue with Institute for Excellence in Writing for Mika. I'll also encourage her to continue her creative writing. I'll hold off on writing for Sammy.
Health - I want to do some kind of formal health class for the kids.
Literature - Read alouds and discussion of classical literature.
So, there it is...my thoughts. Can you tell I'm still a long way away from making decisions? Hopefully, I'll figure something out after the convention.
I am NOT impressed with my new Acer laptop that my husband brought me last August. When I ready to buy a new laptop, you can be sure that it won't be an Acer. Both the quality of the product and the service is lacking, in my opinion.
Just a couple of months after getting it, the left click button stopped working properly. I learned that if I used my left hand to click the left side of the button, it would work. But, if I used my right hand to click it, like you normally would when using the touch pad, it won't register the click. When I contacted Acer about it, I found it that I would have to mail them my laptop (at my expense) to have it repaired. The turn around time, once they receive it, was 7-10 days. That means that I would be without my brand new laptop, my primary computer, the computer that has all of my favorites and all of my passwords stored on it (I use a password program to remember them all) for 3-4 weeks. That's totally not acceptable for someone who is on it as much as I am. Sure I could go upstairs and use my old desktop but I would have to share it with my daughter, remember all my favorite places and passwords without my program to help me, and I couldn't be online while I'm nursing on the couch. So, I didn't send it in. I learned how to use the touch pad to select things rather than my buttons.
Then last week, there was a day when the space bar wouldn't work right. I type fairly well (about 60 wpm) and the space bar wasn't registering my hits to the space bar. It works fine if I hit it with my left thumb but I learned to use my right thumb for the space bar. It seemed to resolve itself after a day and a half but it is back to acting up again. It feels like the spring isn't right on that side.
Then it started having problems charging. It said it was "plugged in but not charging". After researching it a bit, we made some software changes. We pulled out the battery and plugged it back in. Those things seemed to help...a little bit. At least I could get it to change a little bit. Today, I noticed that the power cord was VERY hot (too hot to touch). Definitely, a connection problem. I think the power jack/pin inside the computer is broken.
So, I'm sending it in. I'll be without my laptop for 3-4 weeks waiting for it to ship there, get fixed, and shipped back. What a pain! Fortunately, I don't have to send them my hard drive. At least my information will be safe and I don't have to mess with backups.
It's under warrenty. They better fix it and not try to claim it doesn't qualify for the warrenty for some reason.
I'll never buy an Acer again, that's for sure.
I think that the world (locally, at least) stopped everything in order to prepare for the fast approaching summer vacation. So, after much searching, I still don't have much to report for upcoming free and inexpensive events for the week.
Thursday, May 22,2008
It's Farmer's Market season. Visit Tacoma's Farmer's Market on Broadway and 9th downtown from 9am to 2pm each Thursday through the summer. The Blackberry Bushes will be this week's entertainment. Go! Buy some fresh produce for dinner, fresh flowers for your table, and listen to some music.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Have you ever heard of a street scramble? I haven't been to one but I want to because they sound fun. You are given map of the city with 30 locations circled. You need to find as many locations (foot powered - walking or biking) as you can within a time limit and answer a mulitple choice questions whose answer can be found at the location (ie. What is the lsecond word on the plaque?) Then you return to the start before the time is up. There are different competitions, including different time limits, solo, team, family, etc. There's also refreshments, music, booths, and awards. Check it out and consider giving it a try. It's free (some street scrambles charge a small fee) but you need mail in your registration form.
Today would be a good day to visit the Museum of Flight because the Cascade Warbirds will be flying in and will be on display in the parking lot. Get an upclose look at some restored vintage military aircraft and talk to their pilots. Planes will arrive around 9am. If you have the funds, consider visiting the rest of the museum after you check out the warbirds. A B-17 bomber will be available for ground tours and flights. The airpark should be open; you can tour Air Force One and a Concorde and see other planes. Inside, there's more, including an exhibit on space.
It was sunny, hot, and perfect for being out. We had plans to be at a barbeque with our tae kwon do school at a nearby park. We had lots of food, friends, and fun and no school work in sight. And I had my camera out and ready to record it all. Below are way too many photos from our day. It will be great to look back on this post some day in the future.
Josh hasn't seen a sprayground since he was about 6 months old. He didn't know what to make of the water shooting out of the ground. Shortly after this picture was taken, I put him inside the circle made by these sprays while they were off for a second. He walked to and stood on the jets just in time for the to shoot up and get him in the face. He did not like that at all.
Sammy loved the sprayground. He spent the afternoon moving between the sprayground, playground, and joining in with those playing on the grass. He had a great time.
Josh spent most of the time hanging out on the blanket. He even got in a good nap. Then I got this great shot of scowling like daddy.
Here's Sammy enjoying the swing. The park had a great playground. Can you tell he likes the swing?
Mika spent most of her time between the sprayground and playground. I grabbed a photo of Mika heading to the water fountain to fill these water bottles up with water. Why? Because even plastic slides get hot.
After 5 hours at the park, we finally headed home. Here's what Josh looked like. I thought it was just too funny.
It was still very nice outside and perfect in the shade so we decided to have a picnic lunch in our front yard. Here's my boys. Of course, the cat had to join us. That's Gracie...we thought he was a girl when we named him.
Abby was also nearby hanging out in the gutter drain thingy. I'm guessing the concrete must have been cool.
Abby's son, Pandro, took up watch a few feet away on the steps. That's a few feet away from us not his mom...she hates him because he didn't leave when she tried to do the wild animal chase your children away when they've grown up thing.
Eventually, Tigger found her way over to the picnic too. Our cats have alway joined us for our picnics in the yard.
So, we were enjoying our picnic until this guy drove up. We watched as he walked up to our neighbor's house (recently rented to someone we haven't met yet) and knocked on the front door and then went around to the back.
Then this guy pulled up and joined his friend. After speaking a moment, the both got back into their cars and drove off. This guy drove down the street a few blocks, turned around, and parked for a few moments before finally leaving the neighborhood. Strange!
Here's Mika sporting a new sunburn on her checks. See those red spots just under her eyes? She burns there every time there's sun and she's out in it. It doesn't matter how carefully I apply sunscreen there. Today, I used a brand new bottle of 50spf on her face, making sure to get those spots well. It doesn't matter what the spf or what brand. She always burns there.
Sammy decided to try to put some ice down my shirt. Here I am getting my revenge.
Here is Sammy's look of agony over the several pieces of ice in his jeans.
The agony was funny but not this funny. But Scott started really cracking up. Why?
Because Sammy apparently didn't care that we were outside, in our front yard, which is on a busy street.
Josh, who wouldn't touch the watermelon on his plate during dinner, is stealing a bite of Scott's 2nd helping of watermelon.
Josh decided I was a horse and climbed on for a ride. As he was jumping on my back, Sammy decided to ride double. Ugh!
Fortunately for me, Mika noticed a spider on the blanket heading for my leg. Sammy stopped to observe his new friend while Josh snuck off to steal Mika's soda.
Josh was a happy boy. What a fun, full day he had.
Around 8pm, we headed inside to watch Hitch which was on tv. We finished off the day with hot fudge sundaes before all three kids passed out from exhaustion.
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