Time for school

Bug just finished her first week of homeschool. There was much excitement when she spotted these tracks on the driveway. She grabbed a book she got for her birthday that has life-sized animal tracks in it. I got her to the most likely page and she looked them over a bit before declaring them to be raccoon tracks.


We made our own "fossils", too. You can't see them very well in this shot, but you CAN see Bug's "new" chair. She loves it.

On the left is a tomato leaf. The "fossil" on the right is a feather.

Bug finished off her MUS Primer math book. She's a bit excited to be moving on the the next book!

One day she drew a huge panther on the sidewalk.

While working on the panther, she found a slug. We moved it from the grass to the sidewalk with a stick, so that we could get a good look at it. It was MUCH smaller than the slugs we saw in Washington. Thankfully.

Guitars and rock stars.

Can you find Bug? She's nearly invisible in her yellow t-shirt in front of the big Gibson tour bus.
Here she is, inside the bus, trying out a Paul McCartney model Epiphone. (you gotta play them left-handed!)

Bug got to meet John Corabi, former singer of The Scream, Motley Crue and Union. Just before this photo, he asked Bug if he could give her a kiss. She offered up her cheek.

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The guy behind John is laughing because John just excused himself from a chat with "the guys" to hear what Bug had to say. From the looks of her, I'm guessing it was "Hey, John....guess what's behind my back."
It was a long day at the guitar shop.

A few more pics.

Bug recently discovered our collection of Calvin & Hobbes books. We often find her in this pose with them.


One of Bug's dad's co-workers put this together with a few pics he'd taken of Bug over the past few months.

Bruce the Bug Guy

Bruce the Bug Guy visited our library yesterday. Luckily, I had my camera with me and the mystery moth photo was still on it. He told us that it's an Imperial Moth. Yay. Mystery solved!

Bug got to check out this BIG caterpillar close up.

Can you hear the giggles? She really liked this moth.

Miss Sherrie (the librarian) was very brave, and held the moth, too. (she did vanish when the tarantula came out.... Bug's friend, Kaz, thought that the tarantula (named Rosie) was cool.
Bug liked Rosie, too. I wish that I had a sound recording. She was laughing so hard.

Stockholm Art Fair

We spent last Saturday at the Stockholm Art Fair. It's always fun. The weather was perfect, the music was great. Bug was thrilled that they had added to the play area.

Here she is on the spinning rings of death. (Bug is in brown)
With her buddy, Yata.

Our former neighbor, Angela, had this lovely piece on display.

Check out the title....

Bug goes for a spin. DON'T JUMP!!!

Bug was happy when she realized that she was big enough to push the other kids this year.
Will she do it?
A new skill was mastered...Bug had never tried this before. I helped her one time and that was it. I'm not sure how many times she did this in the 5 hours we were there...but it was a lot.

Summer update.

Here are some random pics from the summer.
First up, Bug found this metal model car kit on sale at Hobby Lobby and NEEDED it. She could hardly wait to get home and put it together. I think her face says it all.

Bug's dad found this huge moth the other night. We haven't identified it yet, but will keep you posted.

We found a "build your own robot" kit for $5 the other day. Bug was thrilled, as you can see.


Here she is at the "candy parade" in Maiden Rock. Always a fun time.

Last weekend, at the Anderson Center, she discovered that she's finally tall enough to climb onto (and jump off of) the "big rock" all by herself.

LOUD squeals of joy erupted from our house when I brought in the mail and there was an autographed postcard for Bug from......BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!!!!!

Again, at the Anderson Center, with friends...getting a pottery demonstration from our former neighbor, Angela. We miss her.

Walking to the Children's Museum, hand-in-hand with her friend Kaz. (anyone surprised that she found a long-haired boy?!)

Bug is staying busy with art classes this month. She also had a cooking class that she really enjoyed. We've got next week off and I'm looking forward to it.

The Kentucky Headhunters meet Bug

Bug got to meet the Kentucky Headhunters on Saturday. She also got to check out the tour bus.
Here she is with Richard & Greg.


Here's Bug next to the tour bus. She thought that it was amazing that there were 12 beds in there....and TVs.
Here she is, wearing her new "dress"...

Bug is SIX!

Better late than never, right? Bug turned 6 a couple of weeks ago. We hit the road and made stops in Madison, Milwaukee and Sheboygan. Here are some of the highlights, in no particular order:

Bug got a tour of Smart Studios in Madison. It was VERY hard to not mess with any of the buttons or switches!
She had fun reading the names of some of the pedals at the studio. Here she is holding one that her dad built.

Among her gifts was a cool book about the states.

Grandma pulled off the big surprise...the girl was speechless when she realized that she got a SCOOTER!

We finally made a visit to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Bug enjoyed most of it...

While in Madison, we had to stop at Ella's Deli for lunch, ice cream and a carousel ride.

Also while in Madison, we went to Wild Child where Bug managed to find one last black hat/skirt. It went well with the Ramones shirt that we gave her for her birthday.

We went to Sheboygan, to the Paradigm Coffee House. What a cool place! We didn't tell Bug why we were going, just that it would be a "bigger surprise than the scooter". She was thrilled to see Garnet Rogers. She agreed that he was a better surprise than the scooter...Here she is with him and his latest CD that he gave her for her birthday. (He also opened the show with her two favortite songs)

Bug was able to read her own cards this year....what fun!