Frosty frown

We had lunch at Wendy's yesterday, and one of the boxes said, "It's impossible to frown while eating a Frosty." So I decided to test that claim, and I asked Abel to take a bite and then try to frown.

Turns out they're right.

My Envelopes

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Sticks

We can't stop looking at this photo and laughing.

Abel's money envelopes

We've been talking with Abel about money lately. Some of his school work has been in learning how to count coins, and he also likes to watch us when we make our monthly budget and fill our cash envelopes. (You can read more about our family's money journey here.) So we made him three envelopes of his own, one for each of the things money is good for. He's pretty excited, and when he earned a dollar for helping clean the house out yesterday, he happily distributed each quarter into one of the envelopes.



Incidentally, he had to choose one envelope to put two quarters in. He chose the giving envelope.

Down by the river

We had a nice family walk down to Ellison Park yesterday. We took the dog and threw the ball in a big empty field. Then we walked down to the creek bed, where Abel immersed himself in building a dam for a good solid forty minutes. He was like... well, a boy in mud.



I think this is maybe the best image I've ever captured with the iPhone camera, which frankly is not much good unless the light is just right. I touched it up with some filters, and I really like how it came out.

Leaf crazy dog and boy

Me 'n Grampy

At the zoo in Columbia last year.

Muddy Abel

This is an older photo, maybe from early spring or so. I just edited it using a cool application called CameraBag. Maybe a little overboard on the filters, but it was fun. (Click to enlarge.)

School days: veterinarian

When Abel first saw the word veterinarian, he read it as vegetarian. Good guess...



Check out the cool Luma tattoo!

More homeschool fun

Abel's first art project: a custom kindergarten t-shirt. (He wrote his own copy.)



And a science project: a homemade bird feeder. (The instructions are here.)



We hung the bird feeder on the cable line that holds up the grapevines in our backyard.