it was bring your daddy to school day

J was the featured guest speaker in Paige's class the other day. He brought in lots of dead stuff and told them all about a day in the life of a wildlife biologist. Afterwards, we loaded all the kids in the bus and took them to see all the alligators in one of the lakes on the ranch. They l-o-v-e-d it! They sang like munchkins all the way!



Notice his little "helper" in the front of the class.

coral reefs

One of the teachers at Paige's school is going on a week-long trip to the Bahamas this week to study the coral reefs.

I took some pictures of her with her class before she left.

She even showed off her snorkel gear in front of the whole school.

The cool part is that you can go with her. Just go to her blog and she's going to upload pictures and videos of her trip for her class. You can ask questions and learn some cool stuff about coral reefs.

attack of the bee

Yesterday after I picked up Paige from school, I stopped to talk to one of the other moms. We were deep in conversation talking about outfits for the Christmas Program when we heard a scream come from the back seat.

It was not a normal "I've about had it sitting in this car seat while you two chat, so you better do what's good for you and head home" scream. It was definitely a pain inflicted scream.

So I jump out and open the door next to Brooke's car seat where I find her clutching her right hand in desperation.

And then I see it. THE STINGER.

I try to calmly, but firmly hold her hand while I pry that little thing out of her finger.

Because this has never happened to either of my girls, I have no idea if she is allergic so I unbuckle her and head for the school nurse's office where she promptly applied an ice pack, sticker and a lots of TLC.

Luckily she's fine, but boy howdy was there some drama. And of course, being the good mom that I am, I make her pose for pictures before the tears have even dried.

See the tear?


The finger.


It was absolutely awful!!!

paige picked a peck of pumpkins

Paige's class took a trip to the local pumpkin patch this morning. Brooke and I met them there. It was Brooke's first pumpkin experience.

Paige picked a "cinderella shaped" pumpkin


That camera is giving me a headache!


Hercules! Hercules!!


Check out my gourd!




This one's kind of bumpy.

anaqua

This tree is just down the road from us and I noticed today that it had burst into blooms almost overnight. So, when Paige came home from school we took a little walk to get a closer look.

It was soooo full of these tiny white flowers and the whole tree was flooded with butterflies.



So pretty!



Paige decided to run home.