Rainbows and Reports! 6/9/2009

Last night Koda came running in saying MOMMA come quick-there is a rainbow outside! He informed me that Unicorns are the only animals that can walk on rainbows-interesting, I will have to keep my eyes open for one! We took some pictures together-in one picture you can see that when you are the one taking pictures of yourself sometimes you forget to zoom back out! OOPS!
The picture of Matt kissing me is my favorite-he said mom will you please take one more picture-ok I said-as the camera got ready to flash he turned quickly to give me that big SMOOCH! Such a lover!
On another note-what is up with my skin? The summer sun is not being very nice to me this year-yuck- I look like I'm fifty!
Koda was SO excited to see the rainbow - if you couldn't tell from his smile! He kept jumping on the trampoline to see if he could touch it, and hoped he could slide to the bottom to find a bucket of gold~or as he informed me, finding a tranformer at the end would be ok too!

So I have taken some BIG steps this summer. I took my kids to the LIBRARY! Now if you know me, you may know that I HATE the library. Why in the world would I want to go into a building to get a book that has been checked out by too many people to count that have done who knows what with that book, when I can walk into Barnes and Noble and buy a brand new book?
Well, I guess it saves a lot of money-especially if you know how many books I buy! Also, if I had to hear my kids ask me one more time why they don't get to go to the library like everyone else-I might scream! So in efforts for them not to be a basket case like me I did it! I will admit, the library is not as bad as I make it sound-it was actually quite clean! And if you tell yourself enough times that the books are perfectly fine, they don't seem as bad either!
Being the mean mom that I am I told them to pick a topic, they were doing a report-my hubby asked me if it was really necessary-well no-but why not?
Bailia chose New York and the Statue of Liberty. Being the go getter that she is she not only did her full page report and picture that was required (yes required LOL) she made a costume to present her report in! Way to go sis you did great!
Jaden-to no surprise-chose to do his report on Egypt. He has loved Egypt for YEARS, and has wanted to go there for as long as I can remember! He is in awe of the pyramids, mummy's, and everything about Egypt! He created a great report, and loved telling us all about it!
Koda chose to do his report on the Desert Tortoise. With Momma's help we learned a lot about the Tortoise! Did you know that they get enough water from the plants, so the only time they drink water is when they run out of plants to eat! Or that their parents abandon them at birth so few tortoises survive, but if they do they live to be more than eighty years old! I especially loved Matt's drawing of a tortoise trying to "eat the flowers on the CAPtus"!