week in review....

For no particular reason I wrote this random post filled with random snippets from my life last week. Some good. Some bad. Some significant. Some not so much...

Jayce mastered the monkey bars. Turning 5 gave his bravery a boost and he did it:)

I exercised twice! (real impressive I know:) But I did get back to all running instead of alternating between running and walking every half mile like I had began to do at some point in my pregnancy.

Kaleah became quite interactive with her smiles and coos. I even heard her giggle in her sleep on Thursday.

I learned that even though you buy something at Salvation Army's $.99 sale you should not assume it has been worn and washed enough that it will not bleed and therefore disregard the washing instructions :(

We showed our house twice. Love showing it when flowers can be cut right from the back yard to be put in vases instead of bought from a store.

I received a call to do an interview at a nursing home I had applied at months ago.

We found that our Woolly Bear Caterpillar who had been inside his cocoon for several weeks finally-and apparently sneakily- emerged from his cocoon as an Isabella Tiger Moth and was hanging out in our coat closet!

Tyrus completed his first year as a Cubbie in AWANAS and Jayce completed his second year.

Our Science Experiment

Our friend and neighbor, Miss Mary had given a caterpillar to the boys on Palm Sunday after finding him at her house. We read some articles on the internet about how to keep caterpillars and then made him a simple habitat in our dining room.

We watched as a couple days later he spun his cocoon. He started one evening and completed by the next. (this pic was the morning after he had started)

Several weeks later as I was getting something out of the closet, I happened to lean in far enough and turn my head toward the wall when I saw what I thought was a huge bug. I'm not usually a sissy about bugs but this looked like quite a large one and startled me. I asked Ry to get it and he said," Thats not a bug it's a moth...probably the one you've been waiting for from the cocoon." I thought he was teasing me for sure. I went to look carefully at the cocoon that we were planning to cut open and examine the next day since we really thought something had gone wrong. I was amazed to see a tiny opening I hadn't noticed before.

He had stayed inside for more than two weeks and when he came out he was (not) a beautiful butterfly. (I couldn't resist a little Eric Carle reference:) Thankfully our research had prepared us to expect that our Woolly Bear Caterpillar would turn into an Isabella Tiger Moth. Jayce was a bit disappointed because he really wanted it to be a butterfly but it was a fascinating process to observe none the less.

We saved the moth overnight and set him free the next morning. But only after "tender heart Ty" shed tears and told him goodbye. Then, I had to laugh as I heard him call to Jayce with his voice quivering, "Jayce, come say to the caterpillar---Bye."