Homeschool Fun

Our poor neglected blog.  

We have been very busy, indeed. But the idea of updating months of our life at a time has been a little overwhelming.  I thought tonight that I may as well put some pregnancy insomnia to use and catch up at least a little bit. 

Back at the end of October (you know, four months ago), a mom from our homeschool group organized a presentation from the East Bay Vivarium for the kids.  The guy came to her house with loads of amazing creatures for the kids to see, touch, and learn about. He brought tarantulas, cockroaches, snakes, bigger snakes, frogs, toads, lizards, tortoises, you name it!  We have taken trips to the vivarium before, but it's just not the same as checking them out closely.

 

Why, yes, Gabriela did happily hold that awesome millipede looking creature. (Had I updated the blog right after this happened, I would have remembered more details for you.)

 I think it's safe to say that the presentation captured Gabriela's attention.

 Easton was very interested as well. I was pleasantly surprised that he was willing to touch some of the animals.  In general, he seems to appreciate animals much more when there is some distance between him and them.

 At the end, the guy brought out a monitor named "Tiny".  The kids were thoroughly amazed.

 It was a fun learning experience for us all. I am so grateful that we found our homeschool group. The parents and children are all such sweet interesting people. The kids are all Gabriela's age and there is quite the group of little 2 year old brothers for Easton to befriend.