Just another CarleSpawn weblog

Ivan had to write one thing he wanted to do this weekend and went with “This weekend I want to play with my sister.”
I am so glad these two kids love each other.

This year it was hot. In the 90s for our annual apple picking excursion.
Ivan’s favorite apple was the golden delicious.
Ezri favored the empire apples.

Blaus

Look at all those apples! Ivan is pointing to his favorite kind.

The acorn this past Tuesday

The acorn about 4 years ago

Climbing around in “Ewok Village” or as the arboretum calls it Adventure Woods

More acorn photos

Ivan wanted a photo where he was on top of Ezri. She was thrilled.

Ezri is on top but more relaxed about it.

There was a display of giant origami inspired sculptures that we enjoyed strolling through.
Squirrel origami sculpture

Rock, Paper, Scissors!

Recent reads include:
How to Train Your Dragon Book 3: How to Speak Dragonese by Cressida Cowell
Olive and the Backstage Ghost by Michelle Schusterman
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon (rereading)
Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise (for Book & Cookie club at the library)

Ezri got her favorite flavor Lighthouse Cherry but had them add a new flavor Peach.
We biked to Every Day’s a Sundae with our friend, Meghan.
Ezri thinks we might need to make this a tradition and get ice cream on the 4th day of 4th grade and so on.

Ezri & Alice hugging each other for 4 years and counting.

They are so excited to be in the same class this year for 3rd grade.

My third and first grader are ready for the start of school Thursday.

Eric made a camera obscura. We also discovered other crescent shadow shapes which was mind bending.

Before the eclipse playing pokemon cards and eating popcorn.

Eclipse Viewing

There was a nice group assembled in front of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah. People came from all over. The darkness fell and Eric’s app told us when it was safe to look up with the naked eye and when to put our eclipse glasses back on. A man shared his telescope so we could get a closer look.

We stayed at a Comfort Inn with a pool the night before.

Sharing a bed did not help them get to sleep.

Ezri was suitably impressed by the crescent sun. The coolness of the air and darkness of mid-day with Venus visible in the sky was eerily amazing.

The 12 hour drive through eclipse traffic jam to get home was epic in its own way. The 1am pouring thunderstorm was the cherry on the hours of parking lot of the expressway. The drive took 6 hours down by way of comparison. Still kids have declared it TOTALITY WORTH IT.