Fossils and Sunflowers

Sunday we went on a walk through Stewart County Park.

It was a pretty park, lots of lovely trees turning color in the Fall.



one of the first things we saw were a bunch of fossils in the Limestone bricks lining the trail. These had been brought in from somewhere else, so we couldn't see the entire strata together, but just to find so many fossils anywhere was pretty awesome.
This is the largest one we found, it is about the six inches across. I believe it is the cross section of an ammonite. Martin saw it first. Our little geologist.





The trail is pretty fun. After climbing up this little rocky slope Maddie told us to call her "rock climber Maddie".


Reed seemed to enjoy his little frontpack. He is out front and able to watch everyone run around.

The kids ran around the trail, up and down the hilly tree-lined way. They all had a lot of fun. Caleb had to be carried a lot. He is only 3 and is easily distracted and upset. The older two kids would typically go on ahead, and Caleb and Benjamin would stay back. When they went down a steep hill Caleb would run down first then Benjamin would get a running start and leap over Caleb!!

he loved it and said "you jumped over me" a very coherent sentence for Caleb. It was fun. I am sure we will be back.

***Sunflower house picnic***

Saturday we were invited to the 'sunflower house picnic' a friend of ours ran a daycare for several years and she would always plant a sunflower house for her kids. This year she invited our kids and some other families from church to plant the sunflower house with her. We went out and planted in the spring, and this saturday it was ready for playing. It was about 10 by 12 feet inside. There were 3-4 ft tall sunflowers for walls and morning glories grew on strings for a roof.

It was a very fun little place.

We had chocolate chip cookies and lemonade for a snack.

This is the inside to the sunflower house.

What a fun Saturday!!!!