Wee Wonders Class #2 at Retzer Nature Center

We had her second Wee Wonders Class at the Retzer Nature Center. It is a once a month class. It is pretty fun class and we both learn a lot from it. Today's class theme was "Under a Log" and we did just that....look under logs & rocks for living creatures. We found lots of roly-poly bugs, slugs, worms, ants, a spider, and some bug the teacher didn't know what it was. By the end Isabel was brave enough to hold a worm and throw it in the compost bin. She actually threw about 3 worms in the compost bin, but before that she would only quickly touch it and say "sorry". She had fun with the magnifying class; each kid got one to use. The mosquitos were plentiful, but we had on bug spray. Although I have to say that the bug spray has been bothering me since being back. It's amazing how much more sensitive (or at least notice it) to chemicals you become when you don't regularly use them.

This is just a fun collage of a bunch of pictures of her learning today. I highly recommend taking your 2-4 year old to this class if you can. Our next class will be in August. I can't remember what the theme title is, but I know we are getting wet.

Isabel has been getting a little addicted to a Dora video here and will frequently request "watch Dora again." She never really watched Dora before, although we are always checking out Dora books from the library. So, we decided to fill up Rachael's kiddie pool so that I could convince her to go outside & play. Pretty soon we are going to go meet some friends to go for a walk.

We have been talking to Isabel about her favorites lately. If you ask her, these are a few things she usually responds with:

• Favorite Number: 2
• Favorite Color: Green
• Favorite Animal: Cow
• Favorite Shape: Circle

She pretty consistently picks green as her favorite color and usually if given a choice of items to pick out, she will pick the one that is green.