Outdoor Hour Challenge #16

Okay, so we are kind of jumping into this in the middle, but since I finally started a blog, I couldn't wait to get started.

The Outdoor Hour Challenges are weekly assignments to go with the Handbook of Nature Study, and this week's assignment was to plant sunflowers. Since we just received our sunflower seeds from Cornell University's Celebrate Urban Birds project, the timing couldn't be better.

So here is Madison, planting sunflower seeds:

Here is Kaden watering them, after they were all planted:And where is Hunter? Well, he has been sent inside, since the question of who would get to water first started a mini war between the boys. I decided that Kaden would get to water first, since he didn't get to do as much planting, being two and all.... Hunter was not happy with that decision and started to throw a fit, so I sent him in to calm down.

However, Madison did find this adorable little millipede: He fell off her hand right after posing for this picture, and she spent the rest of the time searching for more.

Hopefully in a few weeks we will have some little sunflower sprouts.... we'll see if we can remember to water them!

Snails...

Our yard is crawling with these slimy little guys... They really gross me out, but the kids love playing with their friendly little "pets". I think if we could find a way to sell them, we would be rich!

The other day we came home from running some errands and before we went inside, Kaden ran around and gathered up a few snails from the front yard. He set them down in the driveway behind the car, and then told me to "back up!" He wanted me to squish the snails with the car.... I never know what he will come up with next.