Caterpillars and More!

Well, the pic and one word pretty much sums up our weekend; caterpillar. That child and I found more of them then you'd believe. id guess we found close to 30 over the course of 3 days. We were out Friday playing detective when she came across the first and second ones. I told her I would get a box and she could fix it up like a home and put them in there...and it was on from there on out. We hunted, admired, and showed them off to the whole neighborhood. Here the best part...we have cocoons...and not just one or 2....but 10. yup, 10 cocoons. She had seven caterpillars the first night when we went to sleep. she had said she hoped they would make cocoons and to my amazement and her expectedness one had spun one over night. Wow! We got to witness the making of the others over the weekend. Neto. One even escaped and spun a cocoon on the couch. We cant wait for Butterflies! Oh...we did do other things beside caterpillars tho.

Saturday we were getting ready to head out for a trip to Wal-Mart when MaryJane asked when we were going to Home Depot again (for a children's workshop) and my response after a quick moment of thought was....Today. She had seen some construction across the way and it sparked her head to think about Home Depot. How crazy cool it all that. So I ran back in to grab her apron and we were off. She built a pencil holder w/ wooden flowers to put in it. I think it is the one of the best things she's built there. Aside from he holding a few boards together she did it all by herself, glue, hammering, and stickers. How proud I am/wuz of her and she was very proud of herself to boot. Im gonna get a pic of her with it but she is not finished yet. she says she wants to paint it before she puts the rest of the stickers on it. Can you say Ar-tist? hehe. We hit dollar tree where she got her a new bear w/ a dollar of hers. it was a big deal too cause she got a bear w/ clothes for a dollar when it usually a dollar for the bear and a dollar for the clothes. it was the only one there w/ clothes on to so it was a very special find for us. yea. hit Donald's for lunch and play, then it was home and outside for the monkey.

Sunday was church. she had been anxious for church all week, which I just love. She wore a beautiful dress her mommy got for her. It was a good time. We were going to go to have lunch at Grandma Doris' but she had fallen and hurt her hand. Hope your feeling alright Grandma. : ) So instead it was back to the house to play the day away. Lots more outside and watched Alvin & the Chipmunks, which is very good. She read me a couple books too. She is such a good reader. last Tuesday she read me 4 books too, 2 at the library before we left after her library class and 2 when we got home. I do love reading to her, but enjoy her reading to me even more.

Tonight MaryJane is having a "Gala" at The Jones Center. What exactly is a Gala???...well, not real sure myself, but I know its gonna be great. Her last day of Treehouse was last Thursday so its kinda like a little celebration of the completed semester. I know we are having food and M.J. and her classmates are doing some performing. Ill have details when upon my return.

Later.