Reid and Stefani Adopt

This past Tuesday I was excited to be a part of Isaac's class field trip to the Barrier Island Sanctuary.  We saw old sea turtle nests, saw a live sea horse in an aquarium, and learned a little bit about how to keep marine life safe.   Isaac's class at the beach. Isaac's teacher always likes to weigh the whole class to see what marine animal they collectively weigh the same as.  They maxed out the scale at over 1.000 lbs--Manatee size.   In this video, Isaac gets to pretend he's a swimming sea turtle.  The kids pick up objects that the turtles might eat, and put them in either the food bin or the nonfood bin.  They learned what things help keep sea turtles healthy, and which things pollute and harm the sea turtles. It was pretty cute to watch.

We celebrate Adoption Day every February 2nd.  Not because anyone was actually adopted that day, but because we had Isaac sealed to us that day 6 years ago.  Isaac's actual adoption day is December 13th, (way too close to Christmas festivities), and Esther's actual adoption day is July 6th, (way too close to Independence Day celebrations).  Esther was sealed to us on July 10th, and we always seem to be traveling to a family reunion in July.  So our family settled for repurposing Ground Hog's day to suit our needs.  We talk about their birthmothers, their adoptions, and celebrate with an activity and a treat.   This year we found a great deal to Planet 3 and had fun playing there.  Isaac and Esther played together, had races on the long trampolines, and got really sweaty.  Then we came home and had blueberry smoothies.  It's nice to know Isaac and Esther still like each other enough to hold hands while jumping.  Isaac swinging into the big pool of foam bloc

Isaac was picked to be a part of a club at school called the "BOOK COOK CLUB."  They stay after school about once a month, have a story read to them and then get to make a little something related to the book.  This was Isaac's first meeting with Book Cook Club.  They read about George Washington for President's Day and then made "Washington's Cherry Pie," which was really just mashed graham crackers, a scoop of cherry pie filling and whipped topping.  I guess if you're "cooking" with 30 1st and 2nd graders, this is the way to go.