Can you help me name them?

They were found in the back of my neighbor's shed!

Too cute!

There are 4 of them.3 black and 1 gray striped.

We will be taking care of them until they are old enough to go to great homes. We will most likely be keeping two of them....Any name ideas.....?

The gray on is a girl. (cutie and adventurish)

1 of the black ones is a girl (very sweet and shy)

and the other two black are boys.one is shy and the other is a little lover boy/problem child!

I think it would be cute to name them after characters from books..... or whatever suits them!

Green Hour Challenge # 2

This time we went to our local park and took the afternoon wandering and checking everything out. We sat and listened to the waterfall.


Investigated moss growing on a log.



Noticed berries starting to grow.



Discussed how and why this tree is decomposing.


We sat together and talked..... tried to skip rocks across the water.


Pointed out insects inside this log.


Came home and worked on our notebook page.


But most of all we really had a great time. We enjoyed our time outdoors and took advantage of the nice weather.

Green Hour Challenge # 1

We started working on Barb's Green Hour Challenges about a couple of weeks ago and I thought I would share our discoveries.

For the first challenge we took a little walk in our neighborhood. Unfortunately, our tiny strip of woods was littered with trash and glass....However we were able to check out the moss growing....



Signs of spring coming....


Evidence of a squirrel's kitchen table.....



Here is the drawing that Morgan made of the moss we found......


And we completed the notebook page that Tina was so kind to offer....


We started late joining the Challenges but are enjoying the time that we are taking each week for out nature walk.

What's for dinner?

A couple of weeks ago Morgan wanted to cook us dinner and of course I couldn't object! So I let her choose what she wanted to cook and let her get to work.....!
Here are some of those photos....


Here she is struggling with the can opener! So I did end up helping her open it, but everything else was all her. I just stood behind and took pictures :)



Checking the ham to flip it


Taking the corn out of the microwave.



Dinner is served! She was just so proud of herself!

Computer Trouble......

Well to start our new year off, my computer just quit on me.... See one thing you all don't know about me is that I'm a gamer.... My husband is a huge gamer and we now play World of Warcraft together for fun.... No we are not freaks... My daughter does get fed :) Well sometimes !!!! Just kidding.

So at the beginning of the new year the video card in my laptop went up!!!! so I needed a new computer.. No biggie right? WRONG!!!!! Just when my new dell desktop arrived and got set up. I started moving over files from the old laptop and thats when it all happened ..... It was late and I was in the middle of moving our family photos when I decided to call it a night... The next day I couldn't turn the laptop back on.... It went to a black screen (bad news)!!! I totally freaked and my husband took a long time checking it out and he said we needed to take it in to get looked at..... So off to Geeksquad..... It turns out that the hard drive went up! I LOST EVERYTHING!!!! all my documents, contacts, calendar, music, EVERYTHING... but the worst of all is the photos of our family from this past year! My only saving grace is that I also saved some photos on my mothers laptop and this blog with my daughter's photos...... So needless to say I learned a huge lesson in backing up files..... I had to replace the hard drive (we decided to give the laptop to my daughter) and that is where another frustration came in.... I started off like this......



but when I tried to set up the laptop to be child friendly it became so hard to figure out how to get her to be able to surf the net safely.... I downloaded Kidzui which didn't allow her to get on to Webkinz or her email (the two things she uses the most) and their search and layout is not what was ideal. So then I turned to Buddy Browser...that would also not allow her to sign on to webkins but she could get her email, however the parental controls were almost nonexistent ....... so then I felt like this.......



I have spent so many hours and days trying to figure this out and I ended up with downloading Firefox with the add-ons that would help her... I changed the google search to yahooligans... and I created another blog to be her homepage.... that way I can add new things that I want her to check out right on her homepage....... I can add links to Educational Videos on topics we are studying using Cosmeo. I hope and pray that this will be able to work.... so far so good!!!!
So right now I am feeling like this.....



However that can change at any moment!!!!

Christmas Fun....

Now that the Christmas season is upon us we are listening to Christmas music 24/7! One of our favorites has got to be the Hippo song.... While I was searching the web to find it I came across this and I thought it was so sweet... This man obviously took a lot of time to put this together for his loved one.... What a sweet and wonderful present... Enjoy!