I love the honesty of my girl.  

I was productive today.  I got up, took her to school, ran three miles.  

Came home, cleaned house.  Fall always makes me want to cook.  With my kitchen being remodeled it's been hard to feel like getting in there,  but I decided I was going to make bread today.  

After the bread machine was going, I realized I had forgotten the salt.  I thought to myself, this won't/can't make that much of a difference.  Boy, was I wrong.

It didn't rise like it should, didn't cook right.  Was doughy.  

My girl wanted some so I I told her I'd cut her a piece.  I took it to her and left to do something else.  When I checked back in on her later, she still hadn't eaten it.  She normally LOVES my homemade bread.  

I asked her "how is the bread?"

she replied: "I don't like it very much, it has no flavor.  It's actually terrible."

I couldn't help but laugh.  

Me: "I know, I forgot the salt and used unsalted butter."  

Her response: "well, did you remember the honey?"

It was so funny, we both chuckled.  I suppose we'll try to toast it.  

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

A couple of nights ago I was running Chloe's bath water and I could hear her talking to someone.
As she made her way back to the bathroom I could see she was talking into her iPod touch.  Later she sent me, via message, what she had been recording.  I decided to record it here.  Her class has been studying butterflies.  This is what she's learned....



"Hey,
My name is Chloe and my middle name is Caroline and my last name is Hansard.
I have a mama and daddy and they're very nice.  I go to Berry College and I'm learning about butterflies.

On Monday, which is, the date is 9 (stands for the 9th month) and um it is 13 (for the 13th day of the 9 months) 2012 is for the year I'm in.  And also, on Monday, well, it could be any Monday but Monday it's the day is 9-16 (I think) 2012.  That's when we'll start learning about deer.  And, um, right now we're learning about butterflies.  I want to tell you a few facts about butterflies.

I'll tell you about the pupa, I mean about the egg first.  The butterfly lays it's egg on the bottom of a leaf.
So then, no predators will eat the eggs.  Like snakes, or any kinds of things, or birds, or anything.  In the caterpillar stage.  The science word for it is- Larva.  Okay, so....um, let's see.

The larva eats about almost all the leaf, then once it gets good and fat and stuff and eats a lot it forms into a chrysalis.  Now the next stage is chrysalis.   The science word for chrysalis is pupa.  Okay, now say it.  It's spelled P U P A.  It kind of sounds like 'Papa' but it's really supposed to be PUPA.

Okay, once the larva stays in the pupa for a little while, the um, the adult which is the science name for butterfly comes out head first. And that's not called hatching, it's EMERGE.  Try it, say...EMERGE.

Okay, so you got emerge.

Now for the adult stage, um, the butterfly actually does stay for, um, it's an adult for probably 2 weeks I guess.  Then it dies.  It doesn't last very long.  But adult is a science name for butterfly.  Before the butterfly dies it lays it's egg under it's leaf and the whole life cycle will end and start all over, like I told you.

The science words for every stage of the butterfly are

First- Egg
Second- Larva
Third- Pupa
Fourth- Adult

Then the whole life cycle starts over again...see you in the next video.

Bye

And remember my name is Chloe, and this is the stage of a butterfly."