Lizard Skin

We have been studying dinosaurs and today we made Lizard Skin. It is just rice crispy candy on steroids. It doesn't look to much like lizard skin unless you squint. It has peanut butter, marshmallows, and green food coloring. But the kids had a great time.
We hit story time at the library last week. It is geared to younger kids but they always do a neat craft so the kids like to go. This past week as the librarian was reading the last book one of the little kids pulled the fire alarm. They made everyone evacuate the building and wouldn't let us back in. I thought it was interesting that we could see the fire department from the library parking lot but no fire truck ever came. After about 20 minutes the librarian told us we would do the craft next week and we all left. I'm glad we weren't really on fire.
I have been getting organized for next years schooling. DD will be in 3rd grade and DS will be in K. I was going though some worksheets that were grade appropriate and realized that in most things DS should be going into first grade. His birthday is in Dec so I have decided to see how he does and if he should be in first grade by his birthday, I will move him up.
We joined the local art museum today. We joined because I found out they do a homeschooling art group once a month. It would be a great way to meet other homeschoolers as well as learn about art. I cannot really find a homeschooling association that is close. There seems to be some great ones in this state but none that are close by. So I am hoping to meet a few people.
I found a great website for unit studies. It has a few unit studies on it that will be great for DS. Unit studies are when you take one subject and learn all about it using any means or methods. For example. If you are studying dinosaurs, you learn all aspects. Out math worksheets involve dinos, our reading, writing, all involve dinosaurs. You use dinos as the subject of everything you teach. This works great for DS because he some things he is very interested in and is willing to learn all about them.

Househunting

We have been out looking at houses the past few days. I talked to a realtor and told him my requirements and he sent me a list of 10 houses in the area. The first 5 were not that great and they wanted $195K for them. Then we headed to a small town about 20 miles North of here. We saw 2 more that were way overpriced. One was over 100 years old and while the house wasn't to bad the location was the drawback. Then we found one that we will probably go back with the realtor and look inside. It is still to high at $190K and has been on the market for over a year. I just don't want a big house payment. I know where we live the cost of living is outrageous but I still don't want to pay over $130K and would prefer to pay even less. The house we are going back to look at is 4/2 and it is a modular. It was factory built, brought to the lot in pieces and assembled.

Kid's Movies

We took our 2 kids to see Meet the Robinsons this weekend. It was okay, but there were previews for a Nancy Drew movie coming out this summer. My daughter has quite a few ND books and has been reading through them. It looked like it would be pretty good. I will have to look more into it before we decide if we will go see it.
Today was an absolutely beautiful day today. At least it was until early afternoon and then the wind started blowing, and blowing and blowing. Had to close the windows it was blowing so hard.
My DD started coughing a few weeks ago and I was finally able to get her in to see our Dr. The Dr told me something I never thought of. She told me to give her vitamin c before letting her go out to play and as soon as she comes inside form playing that she needed to wash her face immediately and this would cut down on the coughing from the allergies. So we are going to try it!
The days are getting much longer now but we are still freezing every night. High 20's and then it gets up to mid 60's during the day.