Seamus enjoys a story time all about dinosaurs.

We have added a few new books to our reading lists for the summer.  Seamus enjoyed Fly, Cher Ami, Fly!  It is about the pigeon that saved the lost battalion in WWI.  You can go visit his body at the National Museum of American History including the peg leg they had fitted for him after he was injured helping the troops.  And if in Cincinnati you can go visit the body of the last carrier pigeon, ever (at least I think it is still there).  Izabel has started reading the 39 clues.  The online game that goes with the books is proving  to be fun and Izabel was assigned to the Ekaterina branch of the Cahill family.  Speaking of reading.....

 We are feverishly counting down the days until school begins.  In 6 days Seamus will have an open house then the first day of school the next day.  We called the school today and they still do not have a teacher's name for us or a time for the open house.  They said they will, "call us the morning of the open house."  This is not a promising start.  Izabel has zoo camp all next week to add to the confusion and scheduling nightmare.
Izabel has 13 days until her OLS (On Line School) opens with new courses and 18 days until the 1st official day of classes.  She, too, does not know who her teacher will be.  She is in 3rd grade and most in her school have the same teacher until 6th grade but she has never had the same teacher twice.  This year they have changed the model so teacher only have two grades.  Unfortunately, the division is 2/3 so if her last year teacher does not get 2/3 she will have a new teacher both this year and next.
We spend some fun time at Monkey Bizness yesterday.  The kids had fun playing with their friends from Izabel's school.  Seamus climbed the slide.  I mean the slide itself, no stairs.  He was so proud of himself that he ran to find "Ba-bel" to show her his accomplishment. 
When you go to Monkey Bizness it looks like such a fun place to take pictures.  In reality it is not.  Poor lighting, to much movement, not enough pattern.  It also reminds me of a kid friendly thunderdome.  Que the saxophone and Tina.