Bits and Pieces

As usual, when I write out my journal, I miss various things that are going on that I am not directly involved in.

For instance, Kieron and Clare have been taking pictures:

Paddy playing with “guys”

Can you see the steller jay on the pine branch there? This is one of the parents of the four baby jays living on our deck light.

You can’t see the babies, really, but you can see the messy nest sprawling off the side of the lantern.

Whenever I go out on the deck, the parent bird flies off with a mad rush of wings. One of the boys said she was a coward — she should stay and protect her babies! It could be though that she is trying to misdirect our attention — she is certainly not quiet in her retreat and she stares intensely at us until we leave. If we seem to get too close to the nest, she starts flying from branch to branch. We have not tested what she would do if we actually touched the nest — and don’t intend to. I suppose in the next few days the babies will actually emerge — they already look quite crowded in there.

Aidan and I have been spending quite a bit of time “googling” — he loves to look things up on the image option of Google and when he sees something he especially likes, he says, “Make it bigger!” whcih means put it in the photo editor so he can enlarge it and if he REALLY likes the image, he says “Print it out!” Recent print-outs have been: a stroller wheel, two pictures of Saturn, a picture of a cat, and a picture of the freeway with lots of cars.

No math taking place that I can see — well, except for Kieron calculating and handing over money to order a Bionicle. I guess that is math.

Clare has switched from Saxon Algebra to Jacob’s but hasn’t given me an indication of how it is going, yet.