These two photos were our last day playing in the pool the second or third week of September. The sides of the pool were already deflated, but there was still a couple inches of water in it. And believe it or not, we had GORGEOUS weather in September. It was 80 degrees this day.
Lily creative finds ways to entertain herself sometimes when I'm busy at home. She built this "fort" all by herself and had a grand time hanging out in there with her animals and playing her V.Smile video game player.
We helped Gramma Clare celebrate her birthday on September 20th by going out to breakfast at the Pancake House.
Looking at the birthday card that Ella and Lily made together for Gramma.
We had a few BUGGY experiences in September:
We came home from the Pancake House to find this GIANT moth in our foyer.
Ella kept it in her Butterfly Garden net house, but we let it go a few hours later.
We have this weed patch on the side of our driveway...yes, one more thing I never have the time to get to. Little did I know it would lead to an impromptu science lesson for me and Lily. :-)
We did plant a few flower seedlings in there this spring...it was not this overrun with weeds at the time. And one of the star flowers bloom from time to time. So the girls go over there to investigate every now and then. One morning when Lily was checking it out, she came and got me to tell me she found something outside.
Don't you love this cheese-o smile.
This is what we found:
We had fun watching it for a bit and then came inside to look it up on the computer to see what it was. I had no idea how to look it up but tried "fuzzy orange brown caterpillar" into Google. And it came up right away. It's a wooly bear caterpillar. We learned it turns into an Isabella Tiger moth. It actually eats in the fall, finds a nice place under a rock or log to hibernate throughout the winter then makes its cocoon and transforms into a moth in the spring.
And here's Lily showing Ella the caterpillars. They ate for the day and then moved on. It was fun to investigate them and figure out what they were.
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