It's been an eventful week. Earlier this week we caught frogs in the backyard. Aoife spotted the little guy and I quickly scooped him up. Everyone took turns holding it and loved it. Well, everybody except Claire. Towards the end she was in tears begging me to let it go. She was scared of it. Aoife was so tender with it and almost kissed it. Tiegan only squished him in her fist twice (He survived.) And eventually we let him go despite Aoife's pleas for a pet. It was the second one we've caught in our yard!
The next day we captured two caterpillars. Claire was the first to hold those and she proudly announced that caterpillars are her favorite animal. We had one fuzzy one and one squishy green one. Having a backyard is basically the greatest thing ever.
This morning, Aoife and I did some science together. She had a really hard time when Claire went to school. One day, Aoife was downstairs talking to me about breakfast because "I hun-gee Mama". Claire was upstairs getting dressed for school and made some comment about how excited she was to go to school. Aoife clenched her fists, stomped to the bottom of the stairs and yelled, "SHUT UP CLAIRE!!" She just misses her buddy and wants to go to school so badly, too.
Luckily, Mama Loveland was on top of it. She sent the girls a few outfits earlier, School outfits for Claire and some for the other two so they weren't left out. But later on she also sent a package just for Aoife. It had an opposites puzzle/matching game and a rainbow science kit!
I love science. I've been saving it till the weather wasn't so awesome, but I couldn't hold off anymore. We broke out the kit this morning. We made rainbow milk, some colored paper, colored bubbles, and used a pipette to make lots of different colors. The kit has a ton more experiments for us to do later. Aoife especially loved using the pipette to measure and mix. She's very mechanically minded. I don't think she cared too much about making new colors so much as getting to squeeze it. Honestly, it was a little frustrating. I wanted to do the experiments correctly and precisely and Aoife just kept reminding me, "I do it my SEWLF!"I suppose I can just play with it after the kids are in bed one night or something. Overall it was super fun and she seemed to really enjoy it. Whenever I was away cleaning up the previous experiment and getting the tools ready for the next she was singing an experiment song she made up. I'm sure when we pick up Claire later she'll say that we did experiments without Claire. We'll still working on not bragging and being kind.
