Bugs & Bunnies

Remember what I said about paying more attention to the monkey picking pretend bugs out of Brennan's hair at the Disney Parade?

THEY WERE REAL.

Once we were back to school, Brennan failed a head lice check, leading to the following:  
1. Early dismissal from school with Daddy.
2. Harried internet research on the life cycle & habits of the louse and numerous CDC abstracts on effective treatment.  I am now the resident lice expert at work.  Anything you'd like to know?
3. Begging - and receiving! - a prescription for ivermectin lotion from the pediatrician, thus keeping Mommy from going all country vet and making up her own at work.
4. Checking everyone for bugs & nits, and applying ivermectin to Patient Zero (Brennan) and his infectee (Lucie).
5. Discovering there's a reason those nit-combing services charge such exorbitant rates.
6. Imprisoning every single stuffed animal in a plastic bag prior to taking 24 hour shifts in the freezer.
7. A lot of laundry.  I mean, A LOT.

In other news - 

Lucie finally got her turn with Share Bear at preschool - she'd been talking about it for weeks!  Share Bear came home on Friday with a bag of outfits and a journal, to which we added a page of his weekend adventures with us.

Brennan ran in the Grattan Fun Run - the kids run the block around the school and playground as a fundraiser.  Brennan ran around 8 times without stopping, which is something like 2 miles!

He also learned about the Civil Rights Movement at school.

We celebrated Easter with the 2nd Annual Back Courtyard Egg Hunt:

After enjoying a fair amount of candy, we hit the Zoo for the Earth Day Party. Lucie & Bren demanded a train ride with Daddy, and then we decided to check out the new playground.  This is as close as we got to seeing any actual animals:

The new playground IS pretty awesome:

And special bonus, the Nestle Quick Bunny was there, handing out free chocolate milk.

CHEERS!

We capped off the afternoon with a carousel ride - 

Brennan also learned about Earth day and the environment at school, the highlight of which was a trip to Crissy Field, on one of those freak hot days where the fog goes on vacation and suddenly it's 85. The rangers took us on a nature walk - we found a lot of bugs, and learned to identify poison oak.  Then we walked down to the fishing pier and met some crabs.

A week or so later, I was waiting outside the classroom before chaperoning to the park, and learned the important take home lesson about What the Earth Gives Us, courtesy of Bren's classmate:

Thank you, Earth, for the bacon.  (also the water & trees & sunshine)