A Few Random Shots

** These Dagger Moth caterpillars are still everywhere and the kids find some to play with everyday.

** Recently they brought three of them into the house to explore the kitchen table and also crawl all over their bodies.  The next morning, poor Evan had a skin reaction to the caterpillar hairs and had a red rash all over his body that looked like mosquito bites.  He was really itchy and sore.  It only lasted one day and then they turned pink and faded away.  Weird.

** The kids have declared the crabs to be very boring most of the time, but sometimes right at bedtime we get a glimpse of them out and about and that pumps everyone up pretty well for a few more days.  We're pretty excited for Daylight Savings to end so we'll see them for about an hour before bedtime.

** Chloe has only fallen from her bike one time and that really was only because she tried to make a tight turn.  Oops!  But other than that, this girl has major confidence and surprisingly good balance.  She off-roads all around the house with Evan almost every day.  They like to ride from the corner to our house and see who wins.  If you enlarge this picture, you'll see that even Evan is shocked by Chloe's skills on wheels :-)

** Lots of new little treasures have been made with Chloe's new clay.  She shared a bunch with Evan so he could make mini-Jeeps in every color.  She was making a dozen carrots and a mini-Rapunzel.

** Out at my mom's recently, we wandered the meadows looking for a pine grove (that we never did find).  The skies look so big from up on the hill there!

**  There are also lots of little trails all over the place.  We really need to make a map so the kids can explore and not get lost (on 20 acres it is quite likely right?).