Heat

Oh, ya the heat is on and we're going to splash around today at the polar bear park.  I love this kind of weather, hot, hot, hot!  Laters Baby.     Yes, we will wear sunscreen Bohemian Girl, I heard your voice in my ear;)

Brave

Song Bird and I went to see the movie Brave over the weekend.  Very much a mother, daughter flick.  Song Bird has been waiting for this movie to come out.  Now she really wants to get into shooting archery.  I know kinda surprising, but she did it in phy.ed and really liked it and after seeing this movie she's really interested.  I on the other hand spent a large portion of the movie choking back the tears.  I had to keep telling myself it's only a cartoon.  But, in some ways the story line felt very close to home.  All in all a good movie!

Butterfly!

Jar found a caterpillar several weeks ago.  We've been watching it get all fattened up to prepare for the making of  the cocoon.  Nine days ago it made it's cocoon, amazing how this little creature goes through this process.  We watched and we waited for the cocoon to go from this interesting green color with a type of  gold stitching around the top, to the cocoon becoming almost  transparent so that you can actually see the monarch butterfly inside the cocoon.  When this happens you know that it's time.  The butterfly starts to quiver inside the cocoon until it shakes itself free.  AMAZING!!!  The butterfly then needs some time to kinda wake up.  Once awake, Jar then decides to let the butterfly go free.  He has gone through this process several times before, but this time the butterfly gracefully fell down to the patio, instead of taking off into flight right away.  Jar ran down to find her but thankfully she was o.k. and flew off .  When Jar returned to the house he was crying, very, very, sad little boy..  Then Dad told Jar that he did a great job raising the butterfly and it was time for her to go out on her own,  just like you do when you have kids.  Just like our Island Girl, she is our Island Butterfly!!  Sometimes as a parent we're not ready to let our butterflies go, but the butterflies want to spread their wings and fly!!   Jar stopped crying after this conversation, but this conversation got Dad all choked up;)  Until next time....

To many cars?

We were out and about this past Saturday.  We were invited to our friends home to celebrate their little boys 2nd birthday!!!  We decided to pick up his gift on the way to the party.  Sooo we headed to Target, parked the car and made a bee line to the toy department.  My hubby found this really cool, battery operated 4x4 Dodge Ram truck.  Cool, just push a button and it goes..  Then we pay and we are out the door heading to the parking lot.  Once in the parking lot I realize I don't remember which car we drove.  Then the kids laugh at me and tell me we brought my Island Girls car.  O.K. I'm thinking it's coming back to me, now I know where we parked.  In that same moment my hubby says it's over here.  When I look up to see where he is going, I say to him it's the right color but the wrong model of car!!!! HA,HA Don't worry we did find the car shortly after that.  Then the discussion in the car quickly turned to selling some of our vehicles..  We will have to wait and see?