March Marvels 2021

 In honor of "pi day" (March 14), my oldest daughter made a quiche (egg pie) with the pi symbol made out of olives.

We've been reading a lot about King Arthur, knights, jousting, etc., so my youngest son was inspired to have a Lego jousting tournament.

Child number 4 has become our gardener, experimenting with his own garden, and taking over my vegetable garden.  He transplanted some tomato plants and began harvesting the carrots.

 We've been studying flowers, seeds, and pollinators this month in our science curriculum (botany for the younger ones, biology for the older ones).  I didn't plan for it to coordinate so nicely, but it's been really fun.  And to top it all off, we've spent the month watching our personal bluebonnet patch mature from first blooms to beginning to form seed pods.  It's been fascinating to take the time to examine the flowers closely, seeing how God designed them to attract bees through scent and color in order to provide the bees with nectar and to provide the flowers with pollination so that they can make seeds.

And finally, the older 3 boys got to attend Cowboy Camp at Camp Peniel in Marble Falls.  Sounds like they had a lot of fun riding horses, herding "cows" (and being the cows), ziplining, and shooting guns.  And canoeing down the Colorado River near Austin on the way home.

And finally (really), everyone is out of braces (for the time being).  Child #3 got his off this month!!