Our first week of school progressed smoothly, Dodo was pleased with some of the new additions (Challenge math) and especially the subtractions (I promised we would only need to make one polished final written writing assignment per month, instead of polishing all of our Writing Strands Assignments, as long as she practices proofreading and revising on all the roughs. She cheered this news and I felt a pang of remorse for pushing her a little too much last year on her writing.)
And then, disaster struck...
Mr Toad, our firebelly friend and companion to our newly morphed frogs dissapeared from our tank sometime on Thursday night. He was bigger than the other two, and there is no way he was eaten, so that means he must have found a way out of the tank. He is so small (2") that we had no hope of finding him, even though we spent a good hour and a half trying, and it is unlikely that he could survive long outside the aquarium, especially as we are in the desert and he needs a high level of humidity to breathe.
We only had him a short time, so the kids were upset but not too devastated, but it was a sad day for all.
On Saturday we had our bimonthly trip to PetSmart for crickets (And boy, oh boy do my kids love PetSmart day). Ughabugha ran directly over to the Firebelly tank, which had been empty the last few trips, and became very excitedto see a few swimming around in there.
She hopped around and squealed, "See, Belly toad! I tole you belly toad get out! Belly toad go crickets!"
Scote gave her a sad, lopsided smile and said, "Ugha, Belly toads can't drive, you know." and Dodo said, "Yeah and besides, even if they could I think they would get arrested."
~EH
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