Oh March....the month of snow and what feels like more snow.
I think the holiday that we enjoyed most was St. Patrick's Day and we're not even Irish! I think that everyone should be Irish on that day cause it is fun to celebrate. This year the holiday fell on Sunday and we had Stake Conference that week and I noticed a lot of other people still wearing their green. My kids wore green on Friday to celebrate a little at school but I said no to having green hair since it wasn't on a school day.
We had one set of missionaries over for dinner that night and they helped us celebrate with our dinner. I made Irish Stew that we put over top Colcannon potatoes, green Jello, a spinach strawberry salad and limeade to drink. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of that but I did remember to get a picture of our delicious dessert....
brownies with mint icing and chocolate on top with a scoop of ice cream. It was sooooo sweet, maybe too sweet but we each enjoyed a piece anyways. Notice the fun plates....!
This is the month that we also got our basement flooring replaced. It looks like a million bucks! I'll have to take pictures and show you later. We got this done on Thursday the 21st; the day of the worst snow storm of the month. Of course I also signed Aaron up to go to a lady bug class at the Muttart and were lucky to have made it. He had a great time.
He made these lady bug wings. Did you know that some lady bugs have spots and some "stripes" or a combination of both and some have none? Also you can't tell their age by the number of spots on their back? I know! that last fact blew my mind. They also come in red, yellow or orange colors?
We went to the feature pyramid that is titled "Up Up and Away" and it was filled with spring flowers. It may have been a snow storm outside but inside it was spring! Here they went on a hunt to find a lady bug.
We always take time to smell the flowers.
In the tropical pyramid we had the chance to look at things the same way a bug does...with "bug eyes". These were cool glasses to look through.
Enjoying the view of the flowers through bug eyes! In the desert pyramid we had the chance to reach into a bag and use just our sense of touch to understand the ways in which plants can protect themselves; example a cactus (plastic) was in one bag and we learned about its spikes and thick skin to hold in water in the desert. We also felt a wax candle and lots of plants in the desert have this protection to help hold and retain water.
In the Temperate pyramid we got to smell some plants and release a lady bug. First we had the chance to inspect the lady bug under the magnifying glass container to see all of its parts then we got to pick a plant and place the lady bug on it. Lady bugs eat aphids so hopefully they can help the plants and feed themselves at the same time.
We Aaron released his on this fern plant.
Here he is walking with his antenna. He also planted a Christmas Cactus plant that I've been faithfully watering. (Some day it is going to be a big and flowery as Grandma Burt's!)
Also on this day I had to drive the kids to piano lessons. Yuck!
These following pictures are memories that I don't want to soon forget. Evan playing the piano and Aaron patiently sitting beside him taking it all in waiting for his turn to "practice".
I must say that I'm pretty impressed with both of my piano kids. We have our routine down that they practice 5 minutes before school and 10 minutes after school. Really it's more like 2 minutes before and 5 minutes or less after. They think if they have played through the song once then their done. I'm going to have to reinvest in a timer so they can have a better sense of time. P.S if their morning chores aren't done before they leave for school...no privileges after school and they still get to do their chores and responsibilities. We are putting first things first or trying to anyways.
