A Few Random Events

USU Piano Festival 2007

Megan and Ian participated in this event on Saturday, 14 April. They each spent a couple of months preparing and had both memorized their music. Besides performing and receiving comments from judges, they played theory games and earned small prizes.

The Wood Shed

With the lovely warm spring weather, we tackled a job that has been on our list for two years: cleaning out our messy wood shed. We sent the unusable wood and other scraps to the dump and sorted the remaining wood into similar size stacks. We also cleared out the 3 inches of sawdust and wood chips on the floor and discovered that the shed was built on a nice cement pad.

Wasp Nest

After working on the woodshed, we turned our efforts toward cleaning the children's club house. Inside we found a mud nest made by a type of wasp (sorry, but we couldn't find the specific name in our field guide). The children did not desire wasps in their play house, so we asked Dad to remove it.

When he dissected the nest, he discovered 9 pupae, still alive, and encased individually with a small black plug on the end. We felt bad for the efforts of the mother wasp, who did her best to ensure the survival of her progeny. However, they ended up becoming food for our pet tarantula.

Dress-up Fun

One morning Erin and Megan were playing dress-up while Mom was helping Ian practice the piano. They came down from the bedroom looking like this. Erin was wearing a duck head hat, cowgirl vest, bat wings, and black cape while carrying a spider monkey toy. We are unsure what character she was hoping to portray, but she won the award for creativity.

Tooth Number 2

Ian finally wiggled out his second loose tooth. The permanent one had already broken through the gums and was visibly growing in behind the loose one. Ian needed a lot of encouragement to put forth the effort to wiggle it enough to get it out.

Photo Contest Winner!

This picture of Ian and Erin, taken by Megan, was chosen as the winner of the youth division for the National LDS Homeschool Association's photo contest for their upcoming conference in August. The theme for this year is "Walk Beside Me," and the winners receive 2 tickets to the conference, a framed copy of their photo, and bookmarks of their photo. Hooray for Megan!