Kiddo Speak

We picked our first strawberries from our backyard plants this week. This is insanely early for strawberries, in my opinion, but who's complaining.

We're waiting on the organic u-pick farm berries to ripen before we go strawberry pickin' in earnest. For now we'll snack on berries from the backyard.

Brienne and I wrote this haiku together yesterday at lunch while eyeing the bowl of berries for dessert.

juicy strawberries
sweet and yummy in a bowl
pop one in your mouth

PS. I'm fooling around these days with the contrast curve and deeper shadows presets in Bibble, my photo software. You may notice that in some of my photos (like that photo of Brienne), though mostly it's very subtle. Heavily editing photos is not something I'm really keen on doing but I'm having fun with the creativity of it right now.

We bought a "new" vehicle last week. We reached the point where it no longer made financial sense to own a car 17 years old with over 230,000 miles driven when we're not mechanics. So we've upgraded to 1999 Toyota RAV4, only 11 years old. Great mileage and in good shape.

We're all pleased to be riding high after years of car driving (we even have a sun roof - how exciting) but the kids and I thought our (t)rusty white Honda Accord deserved a farewell poem, it is National Poetry Month afterall. So we composed this poem together, a collaborative writing project.

Our car is white and such as sight,
bumbling its way down the road.
Dripping and leaking
bumping and squeaking
and scaring many a toad.

This car's been swell
though the fender fell,
many a mile it has seen.
Up and down, round and round
oh the places you've been.
You've served us well but... farewell

Editor's Note: I am thrilled to turn the blog over to Laurent today. I know many of you have kiddos and we thought they might appreciate doing a search and find.

This is a picture I drew of a flooded section of the rainforest.

You can look for:

1. 6 snakes
2. 7 pink flower blossoms
3. 2 yellow breasted hummingbirds
4. 2 green frogs
5. 2 turtles
6. 8 grey fish
7. 3 red piranhas
8. 1 school of blue fish
9. 2 parrots
10. 1 capybara

Capybaras like the water and they are the largest rodents in the world.

Click the attachment on this post to see the answer key.

What's your favorite rainforest animal? How many items did you find without looking at the key?

(editor's note: To view a larger version of the drawing please click here. Then drag the picture to your desktop and open it there.)