Our back yard has a new beginning! Scott worked hard at growing grass and now our yard is green. There are a few bare places, but he has a plan for filling them in next spring.
The kids have been enjoying the sand box more now. They like to walk through the soft grass to get to the sand box and then squish their feet in the soft powdery sand. The back yard is now a giant playroom!
I told Scott all I need back there now is a bigger deck with a few benches. There's always something... Poor guy, the honey do list never ends! But really, that grass! Didn't he do a great job!!
Soccer season has come to an end. The kids had fun and learned a lot. Luke got to have his daddy as his coach. His favorite position was goalie.
He didn't play goalie all the time though. (Parents really get into it at this age! I was sitting by the other team's parents because I ran into someone I went to high school with that I hadn't seen since then). Luke is the one on the green team with the red sleeves. He was so excited his team scored a goal!
Addy did a great job this year too. She was a little intimidated playing with some big boys that were kind of rough, but she's quick and smart. Those parents...
We found some caterpillars again. This time they don't have stinging spikes! They are black swallowtail caterpillars and they turn in to beautiful butterflies. We found them on carrot tops in my grandma's garden. So we thought we would try again and try to follow the life cycle. I probably don't have the best habitat set up for them, but the last caterpillar (the one with the stinging spikes) chewed through the netting in our bug cage.
Only 1 in 10 of these make it to be a butterfly anyway, so if these guys don't live it might not even be our fault! That makes us feel better. We are still learning a lot watching them crawl around. And it was fun to draw and color them.
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