Henry’s (and Halia’s!) World

This past Monday Ms. Fabulous, Henry and I with her class visited a local farm that had a pumpkin patch set up and it was fun!

We all got to take a haystack ride (a first for all of us), through the acres of strawberries, tomatoes and the best part, the farm animals, including feeding hay to the horses and pony’s and even petting the goats. I learned an interesting tidbit of these species of goat called the fainting goat; they were “manipulated” through various means to react to fear by fainting, so farmers would put a few of them together with sheep, and if a wolf attacked this of course scared the goat faintless, letting the sheep get away unscathed. Of course at first glance it does cruel to raise animals for the sole purpose for the survival of another breed, but that is an argument for another day.

The icing on the cake of course to the kids was getting to pick their very own pumpkins, which my silly Henry would not leave outside, hopefully next week I’ll be able to find some superhero theme carving sets.

Happy Father’s Day!

Henry graduated today from his Preschool Storytime Class of 2008.
Each child in the program received a cap, certificate, and coloring book for their participation, and because it was so nice outside, the class enjoyed a picnic outside, where Henry was content to just sit in his lawn chair and eat crackers, not even when a little girl came over to play with him he didn’t even say hi, guess I have the opposite of a player which is fine by me :).

Even though she technically is not a “preschooler” his sister got to join in on the fun

Congrats are also in order to my brother who graduated from the University of Virginia last Sunday, more on this on my other blog here.

Hair - my daughter’s hair was a cause of torment to me because there was so much of it, it took no less than 4 hours to style or braid, yet a great sense of pride because it was naturally longer and thicker than mine ever was, so for the 3rd time in her short life, she decides to cut her hair! This time so badly that we couldn’t salvage it to donate, but in typical mom-daughter relationship, I am more heartbroken over it than she is, and I know it will grow back, but it took us three years to get to where it is now, oh well, just another day in the life of a mom.

My three musketeers!
Big Brother has been enjoying Christmas beak, catching up on reading and helping out with all the baking
Big “Diva” Sister has discovered soccer and loving every minute.
Me didn’t want my picture with Santa taken the first time around, but Mama got a great picture of us
the second time around, but enjoy what I have so far……