Last Saturday was absolutely gorgeous! Warm weather and bright blue skies. We took advantage with some bike riding, including Noah's inaugural ride on the road and the rail trail. We went a significant distance including up the hills back to our house and he was a trooper... we will see if he asks to do it again;) We were also able to take the whole family to the driving range. Watching the kids carry their clubs, get their gloves on and swinging wildly at the balls was a bit emotional... when I finally stopped crying it was a really special time and I knew that my dad was there in spirit (and maybe grateful that he wasn't there in person to try and teach all four kids to golf in one place).
On Sunday we took in another Portland Symphony Orchestra's Family Discovery Concerts. They do such a fantastic job exposing kids to the orchestra at these events. The kids all tried out lots of different instruments. Audrey's favorite was the violin and kept going back to the same lady 4 or 5 times. Ben is destined to be a brass instrument player... in retrospect this is pretty obvious. He sat down at the french horn and, once he figured out what to do with his mouth, he played it impressively loud... the volunteers were taken aback... this same scenario was repeated at the tuba. He now tells everyone who will listen that he is going to play the french horn when he gets bigger.
To continue the excitement, on Monday our bees arrived. Gabe has been taking a beekeeping class through adult ed at the high school this spring and was excited to get started. In true homeschooling form, we are now fully immersed in bee biology and socialization. The kids are telling complete strangers (to them) lots of minuscule facts about bees so we know they are retaining something;) We (I use the term "we" here loosely) still haven't located the queen in either hive, but they appear to be healthy and thriving... stay tuned!
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