COSI on wheels

one of the biggest differences this year is that i have been able to volunteer at the schools! now that everyone is in school at some time during the week, i have been able to be available to help. the elementary school has cosi (a large hands-on science museum in columbus) come every year, but you have to be able to volunteer all day - a no-go for me - but the intermediate school has half day shifts. yes! the assembly was during the boys' preschool hours so if matt could make his schedule so that he could get mason on the bus and the littles to preschool, then i could take madelyn early and help with the cosi event. i was SUPER excited! silly, i know, but i have been hearing about and arranging volunteers for this event for years and was glad to be seeing it first-hand.

matt texted me this pictures of the twinning littles after getting them ready for school. matt enjoyed his first time school prep too.

even better, madelyn's class was there for the school-wide assembly so i was able to see her (her grade didn't come to participate until the afternoon shift). the theme this year was "ecology" and it really was well done - i even learned a few things. i knew that owls could turn their heads almost all the way around, but did you know that they don't have optical muscles? they can't even move their eyes! prey have wide-set eyes and predators have close-set eyes. tree rings come in pairs for each year of growth - a light one for the spring when there is lots of rain and a dark one for the summer when there is less water.

i joke that manning is going to feel smothered because i will finally be able to volunteer for everything once he starts kindergarten! love.