This past week I was sick with strep throat.  Yuck!  I did do some school with my boys, but.....DADDY did some, too!  I think he liked doing some of the reading and I know C. & G. enjoyed their special time with him.  They also made me feel special and missed with encouraging statements like "Mommy, I wish you weren't sick because then you could get up and have fun with us." 

Music to a Mommy's ears. 

We did have an fun learning moment on Friday when I was finally starting to feel like myself again.  C. was learning about money in math.  I had coins out and we were making up stories, counting, etc.  When we were done I told them they could split the change up and put it in their banks. C. had already washed his hands so I put the change in for him. I opened his bank (which is a cottage cheese container with a slit in the lid, decorated, etc.) and what do I see when I peer inside? A little white worm! Ack! So I pulled out the contents of his bank, which included a little black pouch, and find that at he had been quite the little squirrel!  He had filled it with walnuts and acorns and placed them in his bank for safe keeping; hence, the worm.  We took the bank outside, emptied the walnuts and acorns out. My boys quickly pointed out a tiny hole in one of them. A couple days prior we had read in One Small Square: Woods about Acorn Moths &  how to find out if their larvae are inside an acorn by placing them in water.  If they float it means that they've been eaten on the inside and have larvae in them, if they sink they are solid.  I filled C.'s "bank" (which was now empty) with water and they excitedly put in all the acorns. One other acorn floated besides the one we already knew had larvae. We looked it over but saw no cracks of any kind where anything could have gotten in. We ended up cracking it open and peering inside to find two Acorn Moth larvae. My boys were SO excited about all of this!  I, however, felt like we had thoroughly disrupted their tidy home.  I  pushed the acorn halves back together the best I could after we were done, in hope that their tiny home will still be enjoyable and a good meal. We also got to see another larvae crawl out of the hole of the first acorn, which my boys thought was so GREAT!

We hadn't planned on "doing science" today, so this was SUCH a great surprise! And to think we just read about it a few days ago and here it was, live and in person!