Back in August Bob was bringing home bags of peaches for us to eat and can.

Robert and I decided to make peach pies for breakfast one day.

He was in charge of cutting all the peaches. Then while I worked on the big one he did his personal skillet pie.

He arranged all his peach slices neatly - wagon wheel style.

Then sprinkled flour and a wee bit of sugar on top of them.

He then rolled out his dough and cut it into strips.

Here is is arranging the strips basket weave style over his filling.

He does such a neat job of it. And is very happy with his accomplishment, rightly so. It is Beautiful! And this is his first effort!

Now that they have come out of the oven Miranda says they are too dark, however, the reason they are this dark is not that they are burnt... it is because we used a 50/50 whole wheat flour and it will darken moreso than regular white flour will.

He just couldn't wait to dig in... or should I say... lap it up!

However, he waited a while longer while it cooled down some more.

While he waited he fed Jacob his four eggs with a mashed banana.

Miranda dug in first.

Then Robert

This is what my slice looked like before. I would show you an 'after' picture, but it would be just a picture of my backside... not quite as appetizing. heehee!

It sure was delicious!

Great job Robert!

How's that for home ec?

Tadpoles

A couple of years ago a friend of ours down here gave us a rather large round tub that we use as a kiddie pool. The kids left water in it earlier this summer and frogs layed eggs which hatched into tadpoles. It sat like that for a month and then we deemed that we should remove the water and relocated the tadpoles.

I saw on Freecycle that someone was giving away a 10 gal aquarium with a screen lid. What luck! We then had somewhere nice to observe the little ones as they grew!

We started with maybe 50 or so of them and slowly... as they grew and the tank was a bit crowded we lost all but 4 either to the drain as the tank was being cleaned or they just died, or they ate each other. Yes, tadpoles, once they start getting legs will eat each other. Yuck!

This little guy has some back legs on him already for this picture when we first set up the tank in early August.

This is something very strange that we found swimming in the drain after we emptied the pool. We have NO idea what it is, but we put it in the tank with the tadpoles. It may be why we lost some of the tadpoles as well?

Here they are as the tank got all green and gross. Well, that is how they like it as they eat the algea and stuff. So, we had to make it as pond like as possible. We ended up finding a sunny place to stick the tank and they did great!

We now have 4 little tree frogs in the tank and they will be released all together this weekend.

Smiles

Jacob Loves bouncing on the ball with Heather, one of his OT's. He has started to bounce on his own as well and all this activity just helps him build his core strenth up so he can eventually sit independently on a chair or stool without slumping over... at least that is the goal. 9-11-08

Robert enjoys reading to his brother and sister ~ and they enjoy him doing it as well. 9-9-08

Miranda wants to help with Jacob too. She put the headphones on him so he could listen to a Winnie the Pooh story in her story reader. 9-26-08

I didn't do this... Honest!

Nope, Nope, I didn't do this... They did it themselves...







Really. Bob didn't intend for the cage to be for the kids, but....

Anyway, they were in there ~ chillin with the chickens ~ and well, while I was tempted to lock the door. I did refrain from doing so.

Bonita Tortuga

August 22, 2008

I spotted a good sized tortuga (turtle) on the warf this morning.

Must be time for another science lesson!

Robert picked it up and we had a look at its tail... por que nino o nina? (is it a boy or a girl?)

Looks like it's a girl to us.

The gatos (cats) were quite interested in what was going on as well.