May

May, well May happened, I just don't seem to remember much....Other than the most important thing...Autumn and Emma were STILL SEIZURE FREE!!! Actually Mother's Day was in MAy and Dan and th ekid sgot me a new laptop! WOOHOO!

OK, this pic was taken the end of April and just didnt' get downloaded till May...Oops. But its' wicked cute...Piper, the cat that doesn't care for people, lays next to Owen while he works on the couch..Awwwww! He gets alot of "Pet Therapy" at home, lol.

This is Dylan's invention...a absence seizure detecting cap so parent's can see when their chidl has one and not miss them. The lightbulb really works when you use the switch...he borrowed it from Owen's Electricity kit, lol. He got an A+ on it!

Owen watching butterflies hatch from their chrysalis...this was REALLY cool. It was a truly exciting morning...all 10 ended up hatching! Owen won the prediction: D

April

April found us with GORGEOUS weather in NY. Unseasonably warm, it is was very welcome! We built a dog run for the dogs and reclaimed out backyard. They decimated the lawn. And so we planted new grass...ans used child slave labor to break up the hardened sod..bwahhaha..work child work whil eI take pictures of you slaving away!! bwahahaha!

Here's Autumn weilding a pick axe, which she loved doing and showed massive upper body strength!

Here's Owen in front of the Frog Bog habitat for his tadpoles Rex and Yoda...and yes he has dirt on his nose, lol.

Owen doing his work in the tent I set up in the living room as his reading nook. Emma was allowed to come in and supervise because she just laid there. Greta was not allowed because she dug in the blankets and messed them up and Bailey breathed too hot, lol.

Owen in front of the shelf with the caterpillar larva. Another Science unit, turns out Owen is a HUGE Biology/Science buff. For three months now Dan gets a daily, detailed morning update on how the tadpoles and butterflies are doing, lol.

Our only medical mishap was Dylan's mysterious bug bites all over his chest and in a line on his back, to which he had a bad reaction and some serious, persistant hives. Autumn and Emma remained seizure free in April!

March

So March came and Science found us exploring dinosaurs, extinction, and fossils. We made some pretty cool "fossils" of our own with homemade clay, plastic dinosaurs and shells from my bathroom decor, lol. And Owen excavated his own dinosaurs, which he thought was alot of fun.

Dinosaur stuck in ice...

Owen freeing a dinosaur...

The end of March brought an emergency veterinary visit for poor Miss Emma who instigated Big Bad Bailey, who had enough, and a fight ensued. Emma ended up with a couple of stitches under her armpit. She healed fine, and NO she hasn't learned to not mess with Bailey and continually instigates and won't leave well enough alone. But doesn't she look pathetic?

A graphic shot of the two inch slit in her pit from Bailey's teeth...OUCH.

Emma and Autumn remain seizure free in March! WOOHOO!

February

I totally did not write every day. Or weekly. Or even monthly. But I had a good excuse...I was extremely busy with daycare, homeschooling Owen (which is going swimmingly!), and taking four college courses myself (English Comp II and American History I online, and Teaching in the Diverse Classroom and Child Psychology..and I got A's in each class and had a 4.0 GPA that semester!). So I'll update by month and do the highlights in pics (because really I don't remember anything that happened during those months anyway, lol). Autumn and Emma are still seizure free in February.

Here is Owen getting ready to put together our Electric ping pong ball cannon. It was missing treads on the wheels though so it didn't shoot the ball properly: ( Bummer.

And here are Owen, Autumn and Dyl getting ready to eat our Chinese food lunch, an end to Owen's Literature book that week Ping.