May in Review

Well, May has been a busy month!  I have not gotten any May photos in yet... so here they are all at once!!

Here Kevan and Ben measure our Tomatosphere sprouts to see how the seeds exposed to space compare to the seeds that have never left our atmosphere.  Also this month we planted some beans to observe the effects of gravity on their roots, and watched how they leaned toward the light coming in the sliding glass door.  We got some painted lady caterpillars to attempt to watch them metamorphosize (ok, I know I made that up!) but unfortunately they all seem to be dead.  We are going to try mealworms next!

Mitzie randomly placed herself in this very deep, very narrow box.  Fortunately, before long we noticed the ghostly movements of the box and removed her... but we had to take a picture first!

We went to the Strawberry Festival.  Ben got called up on stage during a live animal show to answer some quiz questions.  When asked how many feathers there are on some kind of bird, he was quite lost until the lady turned around and the audience pointed out where the answer was displayed!

For his hard work he got some cool tiger sunglasses and a ladybug bugs-eye viewer.

William's varsity 4X400 team made it to CIF! Here he is with his team just before their race.

And here he is receiving his awards and patches for his jacket.  His track coach called him her top sprinter!

We went with some homeschool friends to visit a miniature horse farm.  These guys were so adorable!! Unfortunately, most of the pictures have other peoples' kids in them so I'm only showing you this one.

Well, that explains a lot!! These are from our trip to the zoo this month.  We got to ride the train there and back with a bunch of other homeschool friends.  It was a blast!

Here's Ben with his jawbreaker on the train ride home.  The kids played hide and seek in our train car (which was only our group) and had so much fun!

We visited our first Renaissance fair.  We got to meet a knight in shining armor...

...and a real life druid!  Or so he said anyway.

Kevan and Ben completed a treasure hunt and received some pirate booty in return.

I got nominated to join the bird guy on stage to help with a trick.

Then he tried to trick me into kissing him!  Ack!

Kevan, Ben and I went to visit a friend of ours out of town so that I could do some work with her.  Here's Ben with her German Shepherd puppy.

and with her ferret! 

Ben's birthday arrived while we were there.  We went out to breakfast and he opened a little magnetic chess set.  He loves chess.

The pirate booty came in handy this morning when we went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 with Grandpa Roger and Nana.

Then we went to Grandpas house (with Grandpa Roger and Nana) for cake and presents.

Ben got Legoland tickets (we're going next weekend, as well as to Seaworld), Spiderman 3 for the Wii, and...

a cool touch sensitive talking globe.  This kid loves geography.  He's randomly memorized all of the states in the U.S. and provinces in Canada, as well as where many countries are.  He spends hours on Google Earth, and doing the map game on the Fly Pen.  He had a cheapo version of the globe, but this one is way cooler!

Well, that's all for now!

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