Edgar!

Did You Know...It's Halloween?

At the Zoo with AJ

Edgar invited one of his pre-school friends to the zoo last week. They really wanted to see the flying monkey Edgar had seen on TV. No monkeys were flying when we were there, but Edgar and AJ had a great old time anyway.

       

Night Fury

Inspired by the movie How to Train Your Dragon, Edgar drew one of its main creatures -- a night fury -- from memory. In the film, this dragon has lost an important tail wing and can no longer fly. So the boy who finds him fashions a wing and offers it to the dragon. Look closely and you can clearly see the piece in Edgar's drawing, as well as the dragon's fire breath.

 

Miracle at Sea!

We had tried twice to hatch and raise sea monkeys. The more recent time -- after thinking it had failed again -- we just left the container on a desk and forgot about it. 

Well, today, Edgar and his mom happened to look at the container, and whuddya know, they saw several full grown sea monkeys! The only problem was that we had discarded their food. 

So Edgar and his dad made sure to look at Target while they were fooling around downtown today. But no, Target had no sea monkey paraphernalia whatsoever. 

Luckily, a little Internet research revealed that you can feed them hard boiled egg yolks. They are currently on the stove. The egg yolks.

 

A Winter's Day at the Zoo

Here are some highlights from a fun day at the Minnesota Zoo. (FYI, Edgar is eating dried mango in several of the pictures -- in case you were wondering.

        

Large-gloved Spotted Stinker

In his natural habitat. Notice the camouflage effect.

 

Fishy

Edgar's at the age where he loves fish and other creatures of the sea and lake. Here he's having a tentatively fun time as sharks swim overhead.

    

And click here for a movie in which he describes what's going on, and invents a new fish -- the dreaded Sawkiller.

Happy Halloween from Planet Zardoz!

   

Monkey (Bars)

Weird Sunday

We had all kinds of ideas for things to do today, but hadn't really decided, when -- very strangely -- a little squirrel appeared in the back yard. It was obviously a baby and very tame. 

Not only did it not shy away when we approached, it actually came right up and seemed to want contact. It even jumped on our feet and was happy to be picked up (Don't try this at home).

Not wanting to expose it to the dangers of our own dogs, and figuring that it had been orphaned, we took it to the Humane Society where we knew it would be well cared for.

Also, since we were nearby, we visited the Quaking Bog at Wirth Park.