Baseball Madness!

Every summer, the Arizona Republic newspaper and the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team sponsor Read Your Way to the Ballpark. Libraries hand out special posters for kids to keep track of how much they've read. They get little prizes at the library, and the grand prize at the end is a voucher for a Diamondbacks ticket. Those who get the D-backs ticket can also enter a drawing to attend a baseball clinic with the D-backs at Chase Field. This year, ds was chosen, and went on Saturday.





He had a good time. The kids got to take home goodie bags, including a cool D-backs baseball cap. And they got autographs from the pitcher, Dustin Nippert.

I was on the radio!

Last week, when I went to my bunny caretaker job at the rabbit rescue, the head of fundraising was there being interviewed by a journalist from K-Jazz (a local radio station). I was interviewed as well, and she recorded me feeding the bunnies.

I did say some articulate things, but the only part that ended up on the air is my high-pitched talking to the bunnies as I fed them. But the piece turned out well.

Here's the link so you can listen:

http://www.kjzz.org/news/arizona/archives/200708/fluffybunnies

For more info on the controversy, check out http://www.bhrabbitrescue.org

Chef Noah

Noah learned to make French toast yesterday, so this morning he made breakfast for everyone. It was delicious! He told me I won't have to make breakfast anymore for the rest of my life, or until Noah gets tired of French toast.

Playtime!

It's always fun to let the bunnies out of their cages to play. (Well, Oreo mostly snuggles up to me and insists on being petted.) Here are a few photos from this morning's playtime. The babies are five weeks old now.

Here Charlie Brown is exploring the bottom shelf of the bookcase.










Here is Sally. She's the shiest of the three; she will often hang out in the cage for awhile before joining the fun.










Lucy is grooming herself (washing her face) in this photo, but it looks like she's praying.









When they've been exploring and playing for awhile, they start to get tuckered out. Here, the three cuddle up behind the lamp base.

Aren't they sweet?

The foster bunnies are here. They are active and curious, but still like a good snuggle. Oreo likes them, it seems, and hops around playing with them some. I took some photos, but they don't stay still much, so they're hard to photograph.

This is Lucy.


This is Sally.


And this is Charlie Brown.

Watch this space!

Noah and I are going to be "fostering" a trio of baby bunnies from the rabbit rescue. They're only about four weeks old! Awww! Check back here Tuesday night for photos! Maybe even a video!

Planning, planning, planning

So I've decided that Monkey Boy's 5th grade year will start the last week of this month. I've ordered all the books, and most have arrived. I'm most looking forward to history (Explorers to 1815) and writing (Institute for Excellence in Writing). He has recently decided he wants to be an author/illustrator when he grows up, and he's writing a book about the adventures of his rabbit. This is the first time he's ever written so much just for fun! So I am hopeful that this year his writing skills will take off.

Here's what we'll be doing:
Veritas Press Explorers to 1815
Student Writing Intensive A (IEW)
Phonetic Zoo
Shurley Grammar
Math-U-See
Building Thinking Skills 2
Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization (IEW)
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds (Bible devotional based on Westminster Catechism)
Literature: The Twenty-One Balloons, The Phantom Tollbooth, Johnny Tremain, The Sign of the Beaver, Carry On Mr. Bowditch, Dangerous Journey... still need to finalize this list.
And at co-op: science and art, and hopefully Spanish

Whew! I'm looking forward to it!