My Kingdom
Down by a shining water well
I found a very little dell,
No higher than my head.
The heather and the gorse about
In summer bloom were coming out,
Some yellow and some red.
I called the little pool a sea;
The little hills were big to me;
For I am very small.
I made a boat, I made a town,
I searched the caverns up and down,
And named them one and all.
And all about was mine, I said,
The little sparrows overhead,
The little minnows too.
This was the world and I was king;
For me the bees came by to sing,
For me the swallows flew.
I played there were no deeper seas,
Nor any wider plains than these,
Nor other kings than me.
At last I heard my mother call
Out from the house at evenfall,
To call me home to tea.
And I must rise and leave my dell,
And leave my dimpled water well,
And leave my heather blooms.
Alas! and as my home I neared,
How very big my nurse appeared.
How great and cool the rooms!
-Robert Louis Stevens (
Child's Garden of Verses)
When given the opportunity a pumpkin can roll a long way (especially down a hill).
Joelle and William discussing the pros and cons of using a stick to find the perfect pumpkin.
Pumpkin patch kid?
This would be the Texas version of the princess and the pea.
Two lovely ladies!
Watching the boys play.
Watching a passing formation of squawking geese.
Cannot keep her eyes off her brothers playing!
A moment of deep reflection.
All done with pictures!!!!
It turns out that building rockets is not nearly as hard as you would think and is much more entertaining than you might be aware. Janice has a cook book circa 1986 called "Healthy Foods for Hungry Kids" and it has the recipe for building a rocket. Nathaniel built his rocket by the book mimicking exactly what he saw (Janice drew the stars). He pulled the whole thing together in a matter of minutes. Ben on the other hand slowly and meticulously engineered his vessel. Unfortunately he ate the fuselage and the rocket boosters which delayed take off considerably. The final launch went very well and left everyone happily covered in chocolate chips and cottage cheese.
