Kindergarten and Reptiles

Well, it's official. Kyla started Kindergarten. Most of you know that we have chosen to home school our kids in order to open up more doors of opportunity for them in the future. I am actually really surprised that Kyla took to it so well. I was expecting more argument, and some displays of her strong will, to not complete her work. But, she seems to be growing out of some of that, and is finally ready to learn. She was so excited to wake up last Tuesday, open up her Hannah Montana Backpack, take out her "ABC" folder and her "Number" folder, and to complete something from each folder. During the week, we played ABC games, worked with colorful manipulatives, and made a project with glitter glue for the letter "Gg", of course. She is excited to show Mauro her "Finished Work" folder each day when he comes home from work. Grammy and Bumpy each got to see it, as well, when they stopped by for a visit. She even wanted to get books about reptiles, this week, on our weekly trip to the library. So, what did Papi bring home for her on Friday that he found at the job site? Yes, you guessed it - a snake - a juvenile gopher snake, to be exact. She was very excited! Yep, so yippee - we have a pet snake. Well, at least for ten days until we release it back to the wild so that it can eat again. Cause, their is no way mommy is going to feed that snake dead mice that I have defrosted from my freezer!!!!! I about died when I read up on that. No way am I going to have dead, frozen mice in my freezer! Since "slivery", as Kyla has named him, is still a baby, and quite small, I am hoping, for know, that crickets will suffice... Yikes! Anyhow, it has been a great week, and I am looking forward to many more.