Remember last week when I blogged about our caterpillars?
Well, I am pleased to announce that ALL 5 of our caterpillars are now beautiful Painted Lady butterflies.
It is really hard to photograph them through the mesh, but I am trying. We are enjoying feeding them drops of sugar water over fresh flowers.
This has been a really fun process that I feel like we will do again and again. As you all know, I am NOT a pet person, but butterflies I can do.
**Welcome to those of you coming from Jenna's Journey.
A few weeks ago I went with Wendy to Corks and Canvas and we painted a picture that I ended up putting in Jade’s room.
I love going to these classes. They are so fun, and a good way to spend an evening with friends. I may not be a great artist, but I have a good time.
Early in 4th grade Jenna came home with an assignment to choose one of the famous Americans that 4th graders have to learn about, write a speech/biography, find a costume, and be ready to be a part of a living museum by the end of the year. Jenna chose Calamity Jane.
As you can see from this picture, they had a LOT of famous Americans to learn about.
The rules were:
1) Know your speech.
2) Have only 3 props. She chose her horse (Thank you God for giving me the wisdom to save that thing in the attic!). The lasso that one of my friends just happened to have posted in her FB pic the week I went looking for one. The tombstone which I had to make using Picmonkey and a poster maker. (I impressed myself!)
Her teacher loaned her the hat and the vest was a Goodwill fund.
Ponce de Leon here was wearing a costume custom made by his mom out of plaster of Paris.
It was a WONDERFUL exhibit. I was so proud of Jenna’s classmates and teachers.
A few weeks ago I was scheduled to volunteer at Jenna’s Field Day. It rained and the day was postponed, but since I had the day off, I went over anyway.
Nothing can prepare you for music class when 4th graders are learning how to play recorders.
This is the most random post of pictures that are on my phone from spring break until recently. I just don’t want to forget these special moments.
Back in the spring I happened upon Jade’s class at the public library.
After Jenna Marae left our class and went back to the college she had her final project to do. She challenged herself to pass with honors which is VERY RARE and very hard. We sent her this note the morning of her presentation. Of course, she passed WITH HONORS!
Jade’s teacher will often slip a random tshirt over their clothes to keep them from getting dirty on the playground. This day Jade ended up with a Dawgs shirt!
Love this note that I found on my board. All of the blue marks were corrections made by another student. I think there were originally 6 spelling errors in the message. So cute. I love my job!
Me on the USS Yorktown.
This spring was interesting on the McMichael farm and within our family. Among a few things that will go “unblogged”, Mama-Mac had hip replacement, Daddy- Mac had surgery, UC had surgery, Jeff had a bummed shoulder and subsequent surgery, and more and more. I had to laugh one night when I looked over and saw AMS bush hogging the field. You know you are in a bind when she is the one doing the bush hogging. Not that she can’t do the job just fine, but you know this is not her preferred line of work.
Bless Jenna. One day she was in some trouble, and I found this on the table. Yes, that is a REAL bird’s nest, some concoction of water with fresh fruit, etc. I think it was her way of apologizing.
When I was in college I was a nanny for some twins. I had the privilege of taking them to their first day of preschool when they were two. Since their mom was unable to be there, I took lots of pictures for her. They graduated from HS this year, and I sent them a copy of the pics on FB.
Remember how I told you things had been interesting on the farm? Well, there was also a FIRE! Like 6 fire trucks responded.
I’m not even joking when I say this spring has been interesting.
Check out Jade riding her bike at Nonni and Pop’s. She has finally learned to enjoy the Gator at their house. She is LOVING riding her 4-wheeler that MeMe and Pappy gave her for Christmas. We can’t keep the battery charged.
No words!
Good Daddy!
That hair!
Some more Tinkerbell shots!
Jade found a starfish at the beach.
AC snoozing in the shade
Jeff had shoulder surgery. Bless him. It was a 3 hour surgery. He was a good patient. He was so funny. He took pain meds for about 3 days, but he realized that he watched an entire month of DVR’d Young and the Restless episodes (and downright enjoyed them!), so he had to give the meds up.
And Ms. Giddens is now Mrs. Hanson. It was the sweetest wedding. She was beautiful! It was an honor to be invited!
I warned you this would be a random post.
