September Highlights

I went back to work again this year, teaching Spanish at the high school. I am really enjoying it so far, but it means this blog might be reduced to monthly highlights for a while. 

Here's what's been going on around here.

Charlie started Kindergarten, and he is loving it! Here is a picture of him helping out in the kitchen with one of his classmates. Looks like he's taking the job pretty seriously.

The kids found a monarch caterpillar and we were able to successfully keep it alive and release it as a butterfly. We missed it actually emerging from the chrysalis (again!). I checked on it, went upstairs to change clothes, and when I came back down it was out. I always forget how quickly they come out once they start. Oh well - maybe next year.

Bug Days was a blast. And much easier this year with a couple of older kids who can help out with the younger ones. Elena took care of all the costuming this year for the kiddie parade. Sam got distracted right before the parade and decided something else was more interesting so Seth's cousin's husband wore his costume (sorry I didn't get a picture).

Frankie was super excited to be the Hulk and wants to be that again for Halloween. He stomped like the Hulk all the way down the street during the parade - it was pretty dang funny.

And Charlie took 2nd place in the tractor pedal-pull for his age group. He was very happy to get his first trophy and took it everywhere with him for a couple of days.

And to finish, I'll leave you with one fun quote of the month. I was getting ready to go run a few errands, and I asked Frankie if he wanted to come downtown with me or stay home with Seth.

"I want to go under!" he said.
"Under?" I asked, "Under what?"
"Undertown. I want to go undertown with you!"

More August Fun

Another big highlight of August was having my brother, Joe, and his girls visit us from Boston. The kids had a blast getting to know their cousins and showing them around rural Minnesota. It was especially nice for Elena to have some more girl cousins her age to play with as the Myhre side is so heavy on the boys. 

We lucked out that school started later than usual this year so we had the entire week off. 

All the great-grandkids of my Grandma & Grandpa Marso

All of my parents' grandkids 

Skipping rocks at Camden Park

Our niece, Hoku, is especially fond of pigs, and we were luck to have good friends who had pigs farrowing the week they were visiting. These piglets were just a few hours old. So much cuteness!!

After seeing the pigs, we were treated to a "ride" on the hydroswing door of a machine shed. I hear it was a beautiful view (I stayed down because I knew Frankie would want to follow me if I went on)

Frankie especially liked riding around on Uncle Joe. I recall making Joe carry me around everywhere as a kid. Now that I've finally quit asking him to carry me around, my kids stepped right in line!