Fun with Bubbles

Today as part of our homeschool coop we had a day of bubbles.  Unfortunately, I didn't take many photos of Isaac with the bubbles.  (ever since mud day he has preferred playing in the dirt)  Here is the one I got.

As for the rest of his schooling we have hit a road block with the math.  He refuses to watch the video for the next section, and I won't move on until he does.  So we are at a stand still.

Reading Kingdom is working really well.  He is learning how to spell and I keep quizzing him on them.

I know it's summer time, but we have been keeping busy.  I have to say that Pokemon Go is a blessing to us.  It gets us to a different park every day.  Recently we went to Park of Roses and we had so much fun!  We spent about 4 hours there.  Isaac made so many friends there because everyone was playing the game.  When my phone died they were kind enough to let him use theirs.

In the middle of the playing Pokemon we did a lot of exploring.  Isaac found a bird nest and he was so excited about it!  He even put it back in a tree (it was on the ground) so another bird could make it their home.  And then he proceeded to ask everyone he saw to go with him to see the bird's nest.  Eventually this nice college student agreed.

 When we first got to the park a guy came running up to me telling me I needed to take the kids down the trail.  I did, ad he showed me this owl.  I wish so much I had my good camera there!

We also found this mushroom.  Isaac also tried to get everyone to see the mushroom.  But we got to talk about everything we saw.  We discussed a lot about the different kinds of plants there too.

International Mud Day

International Mud Day.  Yes, it really is a thing!  I couldn't sleep last night, and checked out some events that are coming up for my homeschool coop.  I realized (at 2:30 am) that today was international mud day.  One of the metroparks here was having a celebration for it.  I thought.....Isaac would probably love that.  Lets see if I get up and going early enough.  (It was 30 minutes away and started at 10)  Well, I did.  And lets just say that it was MUCH BIGGER than I expected!!!!

 They had a mud slide set up.  What you can't see is that down at the bottom of the slide there were about 5 kids with buckets who were throwing mud onto the slide to ensure the fastest ride, and the messiest.

 Here is what the slide experience turned out to be.  My son that hates getting dirty is covered from head to toe.  (Needless to say he didn't go down the slide again)  Up until this point he didn't want to stick his toes in the mud.  Once he was muddy he enjoyed himself.

 He found some nice boys that brought a bunch of dinosaurs.  He had so much fun with them!  I feel bad for the mom (who I spoke to a lot) of the owner of the dinosaurs because they were feeding them mud.  Their mouths opened and everything!

 Isaac found a vacant bucket and decided to play with the mud and water.

 And here we have the final results.  It looks like he is going to war!

I admit that seeing how big this event was caused some anxiety.  Along with the idea of having to clean him off.  BUT he had a lot of fun, and I know that he won't forget it.  Plus, it was good to see my little boy that hates getting dirty....getting dirty.  Sometimes kids just need to play in the dirt and see what they can find.