Fall Break Zoo pictures

I love this family so much.  No words....

They had the Halloween stuff out.  This is Evelyn's best dragon face.

They had a lot of new babies.  Baby giraffe, elephant, zebra, leopards, and wild cats, etc.... so cute.

The elephant had it's ears tight against itself to stay warm.  It looked just like a puppy dog.

My monkeys.

This gorilla was fun to watch.  He was very studious and the kids kept saying that we should send the gorilla pictures to Grandpa Wilcox to show him how thoughtful and studious he is.

 This is one of the baby wild cats.

The kids thought this was funny.  The peacock baiting the hungry wolf. 

We even had a science lesson... How light bends in water.

Baby leopard

It started raining like crazy, so we took refuge in the sea lion observation to see if the rain would die down.  The sea lions loved it... they jumped in the water and play fought forever.  They kept trying to look at the kids and see what they were doing too.  They weren't the only animals that liked the rain though.  The rhinos loved it too.

Haha Haha!

Seth is currently standing in the middle of the hall saying, "It's awake time cockadoodledoo!"

My IQ test

I did my IQ test this week too. I told Seth that I was going to do the same kinds of tests that he did last time. He told me that I need to hold very still and not wiggle.

It was very interesting too. Some of it was problem solving and some of it was General Knowledge. I enjoyed doing the problem solving ones. There were some that were very fun like trying to identify what was missing in a picture or putting pictures together in my head to figure out what it was of. Other things that I did not like like ordering numbers and letters in my head. They would give me 6 or 7 numbers and letters and tell me to put them in alphabetical and numerical order starting with numbers and ending with letters. I could get four or five but six or seven was really hard. There were some things that I realize that I answered wrong after the fact. Like he asks the boiling point of water and I said 32 degrees which is the freezing point of water but I was just answering to be done at this point. It was a four hour test. There was another one that I thought was really funny after the fact. He asked me to name the continents. I named seven and then insisted that there was two more that I could not remember. Jer commented to me afterwards that there are just seven continents. He said I was one of three people that he's ever tested the new that Goethe wrote Faust. So even if I didn't know the boiling point water I did know that.

I am both excited and a little nervous to get my results. I've always been pretty mediocre in most things. I do well enough to feel good about what I've done but never really excelling. I think as long as it's a mediocre score I'll be happy. The next test I'm going to do is a 90 minute MRI. What they're going to do after that is compared the MRIs and the test results between the control group and those with autism. I think any more information we can gather is a good thing.

Ada's Bellatrix

Jeremy's Halloween work party

Jeremy's work had a Halloween party. We can find Seth's costume so he decided to use Sam's old Harry Potter costume. He was cute sitting in the car saying expecto patronum over and over again. Ada was Bellatrix and very proud of it. Evelyn was Professor McGonagall and Sam was Link from the Legends of Zelda. His work didn't do the spook alley kind of thing like they usually do but there was some cute little setups. My favorite was it people put together a Fix-It Felix room. Very fitting for the people who are always fixing.

Ada

Donut seller

Krispy Kremes offers free donuts for good grades. Our kids got there report cards and we went and got donuts. Evelyn says that she looks like a donut seller.

Brother Seth

My brother Seth, not only DM's Dungeons & Dragons groups but he also Paints the mini figures. He's very talented and it's very calming for his depression. He's been very nice and we've been painting them together. Ada's loving it. I'm too much of a perfectionist to be able to paint them very quickly. But Ada loves to paint all the little people.

Evelyn's imagination