Jenna Photo Shoot

Saturday was a beautiful day.  After the Clay County Nature Day, we got home and put Shelby down for a nap.  Jenna had a 30 minute quiet time and was ready to go again.  Since Shelby was sleeping, I grabbed a couple of my favorite Jenna outfits and we headed outside with the camera.  The following is what I got....

 

Well?

We have a resident gopher, his name is Lance.  Our gopher has spent the summer digging holes, trenches, and mounding dirt in our yard.  The resident gopher has a purpose to all the digging.  This time we were looking for our well head.  We had dug it up once before, out of curiousity, but couldn't remember its exact location.  So, there were 3 new holes dug in the yard to find the well.  It is still uncovered.  Fortunately, we have not had problems with water during the drought, just needed to find it for another project we have in the works.

Needless to say papa gopher had help from his two baby gophers.

Library

Today the entire daycare had a fieldtrip during pre-school time.  Since I had already scheduled today as a day off, I decided to go as a chaperone.  I hadn't been to a local library, well, since I've been a local.  Technically, since I graduated from Purdue. 

Anyway there were 15 kids and 5 adults.  I transported Jenna, Avery, and Shelby.

 The kids were given a book to keep during their visit to the library.  Jenna got "Summer Treasure" by Margaret McNamara and Shelby got "Purrfect Friends" by Martha Speaks.  They also had story time.  This month they have been working on the color red, so all the books had to do with a red character.  They read on of the Clifford books, "Little Red Riding Hood", and "The Red Girl"

The picture below was during story time. L-R Isaac, Joshua, Kingston, Jenna.

 Each of the kids got their pictures taken.  Jenna was being a stinker and they threatened her that Mommy wasn't going to be allowed to go on field trips if she didn't straighten up....

Jenna was being very sweet this morning.  There was a new boy that joined pre-school this week (today), named Joshua.  Jenna came over to me and said, his name starts with a "J" just like mine.  I agreed.  She said, "he is new."  I told her that she should go over and say 'hi'.  She replies with, "he is going to be my best friend today!"  I giggled and told her that was very sweet.  I don't know if Joshua has joined daycare all day or just the preschool portion, but either way, I thought it was cute.

On an exciting note, while we were at the library, Shelby told me 'poop', so we went to the bathroom and she did!  I was excited and so was Miss Anita!

Nature Day

Purdue Extension, Clay County had a nature day today.  Lance had to work, so I decided to take the girls up to Brazil to the fairgrounds to enjoy the day of free activities.  The highlight that we were present for was the "Raptor Show".  This is Mark, I used to work with him and his wife when I worked at the Indianapolis Zoo, ten years ago.  Anyway, he had five birds of prey with him and put on a 50 minute presentation. 

Red Tailed Hawk named Jack

 This is a barred owl

 This was a falcon that he actually had flying up into a tree.



They also had Larry Caplan, the Plant Magician, a river stomp, and boothes with all kinds of information.  We had a really good time and I treated the girls to McDonalds for lunch.

Preschool Physicals

Three weeks ago the girls started a new daycare.  The primary reason for the switch was because Lance wanted Jenna to start attending preschool.  So we found Learn-A-Lot which has daycare and preschool!  Learn-A-Lot requires that all the kids have physicals.  Friday morning I schedule their physical appointments, which means that I have new stats on my girls!

Jenna, 3 years and 7 months, is 39.75 inches tall and weighs 35.6 pounds. 

Shelby, 2 years and 3 months, is 35.75 inches tall and weighs 27.8 pounds.

The girls checked out great!