We’re getting rain this year. Everything is brown and green dotted with small bits of color. We planted tulips and hyacinths, and although they hated the snow that fell on them a few days after they went into the ground, they love the rain. Iris loves the rain too. It triggers her water dog DNA. She rolls in the wet grass and paws in the mud. We love the leaden, overcast skies. When we wake to rain, there’s the chance the night could be dark and stormy and anything anything can happen on a dark and stormy night.
The hummingbirds have returned. And some brightly colored birds. Not so much the baby bunnies, though that could be down to Mitten’s hunting. Last summer Dad discovered Mitten’s abattoir–5 or 6 small, headless bunny bodies lined up next to the house. Mitten arranged them all neatly in a row. He’s very fastidious. We’re thinking that the bunnies might now know better than to come close to Mitten’s home. Hopefully, they’ve moved far enough away, somewhere Mitten can’t find them.
This week is our last week of Denver Options. In two weeks, we are done with our online classes. And in a little over 3 weeks, we’ll be headed to Maine. We don’t have the end-of-the-year crush most students experience, but we’re so, so ready for a break from Wake, Learn, Rinse, Repeat. Although we have a few good trips and camps scheduled this summer, we’ve decided not to schedule as much for ourselves as we did last summer. Fingers crossed this is truly the Do Nothing Summer.
Some quick updates:
Emmett performed as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He was wonderful. Days before the performance, he got glasses. He’s farsighted, which is so Emmett, so when he wears the glasses, it’s like the world right in front of him–the world that he often missed before–pops into view. Welcome, Emmett, to life in real time.
Riley’s been competing in archery tournaments. He’s a very good bowman, but for the last 2 competitions, there’ve been no other entrants in his age bracket shooting barebow. The upside is that he always wins gold. Although he enjoys this, he’s looking forward to having someone else to shoot against. Maybe that’ll happen at the tournament in July.
Asher’s been busy recreating scenes from World Wars 1 and 2 out of Legos. He’s the family engineer and so creative. He doesn’t need Lego instructions to build anything. He sees all of those teeny pieces and parts in his head and knows how they fit together to fashion something much, much bigger. He’s looking forward to moving onto our next historical unit–African History. Maybe he’ll build one of those long lost kingdoms next.
Tessa loves getting on her iPad at the same time as her school friends and playing Roblox games with them. She’s hoping that the Do Nothing Summer includes weekly hang outs with them. Also, she just completed a resin art project–an underwater scene–that she’s very proud of. Her next step is drawing classes. She’s finally come ’round to the idea that learning to draw, which she anticipates will be extremely frustrating, will greatly improve her doodling.
Check back in when we’ve got some summer under our belts. We’re sure we’ll have more to report.
Best,
The Pigs
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