Spring Break

 This year spring break was towards the end of April.  It has been a long few months with no snow days so we were all more than ready to get a break from school. The weather was perfect and it has us counting down until summer.

 The first day of break Norah had a roller skating party to go to.  And I was reminded why we have only taken the kids once to skate.  Most of the kids spent the entire time falling.  Norah picked it up quicker than I thought.

Joel took cardboard and a glue gun and made his own catapult and marble run. And he glued a tooth pick to his finger to freak us out a little

 We went on a walk one night after dinner in the arboretum.

 Norah made sure to tell me several time she was only picking the blooms that had fallen on the ground.

 So many beautiful blooms

 We went to the zoo with friends

 Norah's favorite thing we did was go to Bergeys and see the baby animals. We got to pet baby rabbits, baby pigs, baby goats, and kittens.

 One day Colin went to Busch Gardens with friends so I took Joel and Norah to the military aviation museum. We got to see a plane take off and land and they loved the dinosaur park. I think all their planes but one are in flying condition.

There was a WWII vet there who told us stories of flying some of the planes. He said he only crashed once and showed us the plane he crashed in and how he had to float in the ocean for a few hours until he got picked up.  

 
 

 

Colin had a great time at Busch Gardens with friends. This was the first time hes gone without us.  He had $25 dollars to spend for food that day.  Amanda said that he went through the line at lunch and picked pizza, a drink, and some mozzarella sticks. They talked him out of a huge piece of cake.  He got to the check out line and it was $22. She said he looked a little deflated handing over that much money for lunch.

Girl Scout Camp

Norah joined Girl Scouts back in November. It hasn’t been anything we ever planned on doing but when she was having trouble in school (before we knew what was going on) a mom reached out and asked if Norah wanted to join their daisy troop. She said yes and the very first night walked right in and told me I could leave. So that was our first clue that her screaming and crying was school related.

She has loved girl scouts ever since. And this past weekend we went to girl scout camp at Camp Skimino.  I used to go to Camp Skimino when I was a girl scout many many years ago. 

They kept us busy the entire weekend.  Because the Daisys are the youngest we got to sleep in the cabins but it was 16 bunks i think and no one slept much that night. Norah whispered to me when we were brushing our teeth that the girls had planned on pretending to go to sleep and then getting up and partying all night long. We had to leave our house at 6am and they kept us going until 9:30 that night so I knew they would all crash quick. I told Norah that was ok with me but that she had to lay down for a few minutes in her sleeping bag. All the girls were out quick but then moms took turns all night getting up with different girls to take to the bathrooms - we had to walk to the bathrooms. At one point Norah was crying in her sleep and a few girls had gotten cold so they tried to sleep in the same bunk. Norah ended up with me at 3am. So we were exhausted and tired coming home but it was well worth it.