Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Field Trip Club!
Henry started yesterday! I asked him this morning on a scale of 1-10, 10 being his best day ever and 1 being is worst, how did he like yesterday. After several attempts at explaining this scale system, his answer was 100.
Yesterday was a long, long, looooong day for him. I dropped him off about 7:15am and picked him up at 8:15pm!! I got to the park to pick him up at 4:30pm as scheduled but ML (Margaret Leigh, the FTC leader) was taking some kids to her church for VBS and asked if Henry could join them. When I got there Henry was doing a craft with yarn and popsicle sticks. He was intensely working on this project when I arrive with sweat dripping off his hair from the heat and he face was flushed - he had obviously been playing hard earlier. I could have taken him home, fed him dinner and he would have been asleep lickity split... but, I allowed him to go to VBS with ML. The church fed them dinner (hot dogs, corn chips and applesuace) and then VBS was from 6-8pm. It is in downtown Olathe at a beautiful, old church. Gorgeous wooden pews, plush maroon carpet in the aisle and fantastically rich stained glass and organ pipes that line the back wall. There was a great presence in the church too.
So yesterday they:
Went to SM Park, fed the ducks, played "team games" and ate lunch. Saw the movie "Zathura" then went to Jose Peppers for a "soda, chips n salsa" party. Since he has his baseball game and party tonight he won't be able to go to VBS.
Today they:
Go to SAR KO PAR Park, lunch at Antioch library and "Mystical, Magical Pets!", then McDonalds playland.
For tomorrow I'll pick him from as scheduled but then we have to go take baseball pictures then I'll bring him back for VBS at the church.
Copper is making a fuss over the rabbits we brought home. Since the a/c is out I moved then from Henry's room to my room. Henrys room gets warmer than mine and it was a hot one yesterday at 93º and today is supposed to be a real scorcher! 97º by 5pm.
When Copper watches the rabbits he whimpers and wags his tail at the same time. Is he thinking about killing/eating them? Playing with them? Investigating them?
He caught a baby bunny in the backyard and broke its back a week or so ago. Was he trying to play with it or kill it? He didn’t kill it but it did die since its back was broken. Which brings me to this question - if you find an animal outside and it is near death, but not dead, what do you do? Let it be to die on its own or do you take action to put it out of its misery? Each time I see this, a baby bird fallen out of the nest that is too young to survive, that baby bunny with the broken back I think about smashing it with a rock so it'll just die. But smashing it is so grotesque and violent! A co-worker told me to fill up a bucket and drown the animal and while that isn't so physically violent that seems equally hard for me to think about doing. What do you do?
Henry started yesterday! I asked him this morning on a scale of 1-10, 10 being his best day ever and 1 being is worst, how did he like yesterday. After several attempts at explaining this scale system, his answer was 100.
Yesterday was a long, long, looooong day for him. I dropped him off about 7:15am and picked him up at 8:15pm!! I got to the park to pick him up at 4:30pm as scheduled but ML (Margaret Leigh, the FTC leader) was taking some kids to her church for VBS and asked if Henry could join them. When I got there Henry was doing a craft with yarn and popsicle sticks. He was intensely working on this project when I arrive with sweat dripping off his hair from the heat and he face was flushed - he had obviously been playing hard earlier. I could have taken him home, fed him dinner and he would have been asleep lickity split... but, I allowed him to go to VBS with ML. The church fed them dinner (hot dogs, corn chips and applesuace) and then VBS was from 6-8pm. It is in downtown Olathe at a beautiful, old church. Gorgeous wooden pews, plush maroon carpet in the aisle and fantastically rich stained glass and organ pipes that line the back wall. There was a great presence in the church too.
So yesterday they:
Went to SM Park, fed the ducks, played "team games" and ate lunch. Saw the movie "Zathura" then went to Jose Peppers for a "soda, chips n salsa" party. Since he has his baseball game and party tonight he won't be able to go to VBS.
Today they:
Go to SAR KO PAR Park, lunch at Antioch library and "Mystical, Magical Pets!", then McDonalds playland.
For tomorrow I'll pick him from as scheduled but then we have to go take baseball pictures then I'll bring him back for VBS at the church.
Copper is making a fuss over the rabbits we brought home. Since the a/c is out I moved then from Henry's room to my room. Henrys room gets warmer than mine and it was a hot one yesterday at 93º and today is supposed to be a real scorcher! 97º by 5pm.
When Copper watches the rabbits he whimpers and wags his tail at the same time. Is he thinking about killing/eating them? Playing with them? Investigating them?
He caught a baby bunny in the backyard and broke its back a week or so ago. Was he trying to play with it or kill it? He didn’t kill it but it did die since its back was broken. Which brings me to this question - if you find an animal outside and it is near death, but not dead, what do you do? Let it be to die on its own or do you take action to put it out of its misery? Each time I see this, a baby bird fallen out of the nest that is too young to survive, that baby bunny with the broken back I think about smashing it with a rock so it'll just die. But smashing it is so grotesque and violent! A co-worker told me to fill up a bucket and drown the animal and while that isn't so physically violent that seems equally hard for me to think about doing. What do you do?
posted by Kara @ 8:39 AM 
