Who Makes Seeds?

Taven bought a potato gun last week at the natural science museum with his allowance money. Finally! Real bullets! He sits on the porch out back and shoots them into the chicken coop.

 Here is a birthday card he made for his friend Josh. His drawings are getting more and more detailed and I LOVE them! He even drew a tree with leaves next to the cats (yes they are cats) but I do not have a picture. The cat on the right is pregnant and has a baby in her belly.

 Here are the girls at Josh's party. They had their face painted for the first time and it was exciting!

 HOWEVER, everyone was not so chipper when we got home. There was screaming and crying over balloon animals coming apart and popping, over me not bringing enough food home, and over face paint being wiped off. Serious serious crying! Oh and bubbles from the goodie bags being lost in the car. When I finally got them to bed, Naia was the only one left crying (over the face paint) but finally started feeling better when I let her give me a high five as hard as she could. I pretended it hurt REALLY bad, that made her laugh, and we were good to go.

After the kids are in bed, this is what awaits me in my room. My desk full of my children's' questions and library books. As you can see, I am a bit behind on the questions. "Who makes seeds" is a doozy. If I say seeds come from plants they say "yeah I know but where do plants come from!"? Then I say "seeds" and they say "but who makes seeds"? It's the never ending question. What came first? The chicken or the egg? Then we talk about God and mysteries and how amazing life is. When I told Eaden to write her question down in the book she said she didn't want to. I asked why and she said "because there is no answer." My answer to that? "Maybe not, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about it."

 Why the artichoke question? Well here is our artichoke aftermath. The kids get their own artichoke and when they are done I get to fish through what they left and scavenge for "meat." Yummy.

 Mirek is the only one not sold on artichokes yet. He is a clementine fool and he will NOT let me help him peel them!

 Eaden mapped out a little seed starter tray the kids made.

 I'm not sure much will grow. We will wait and see. There is supposed to be a lot of rain the next few days and then we are going out of town. If the kids fail, we will plant again.

 I forgot to show the new buttons we purchased last week. Bring back Pluto!!!!!