A Day of Rest?

Saturday, May 13

We had a quieter day today. The kids went outside with Garrett for a little while to play and when they came back they had a big bouquet of flowers they had picked. They also had taken captive a few bugs. They are like flat lady bugs. Well that became a major production. They spent the rest of the day out on our balcony, which is small, and made houses for their bugs. At first the houses we quite primitive but as time passed they became more like a bug condo. They were all over the drawers and bookshelves scavenging for supplies. There is a thing of dirt out there and they made a nice terrain and then of course the bugs needed to eat so they had to run down the 5 flights of our apartment building to get food for them. I did not know but little spring onions are a delicacy of these little bugs, or so I am told.

The introduction of onions took us to a whole new level. We released our bugs and cleaned the deck quite well putting away everything and started out fresh with what is now called their “office”. They found an old phone, papers, pens and other important documents and have quite an elaborate set up. We are very impressed with their organizational skills. Then we moved right over into science. We took little shot glasses with cut up pieces of spring onions and some water, salt, and heated in the microwave. They told us they would not be drinking them but their breath said otherwise. Whew!

After dinner Wrestle Mania III broke out. It was pretty wild. Garrett says the back of his neck feels sunburned from them leaping off the sofa and grabbing him. We thought we were getting ready for bed but then Sasha had a great idea. He wanted to build a fort. So they made a lovely fort after a few failed attempts. They played Gameboy and listened to the I-pod for a while but then when they were ready for bed they put everything away and crawled in bed. That was about it for day 8. Until tomorrow God bless you and keep you.