July Activities

L had her week of College for Kids this month.  She only has one year left of CfK.  Both girls have enjoyed CfK, and it will be strange to be completely done with it next year.  This year L took a Photoshop class and the Lego Mindstorms robotics class.  I really wanted to take that class, too!  She built and programmed several different robots.  Parents were invited in for the last class to see the 'Sumo match', in which they pitted the robots against each other to see which was would succeed in pushing the other bot(s) out of the ring.  It was a fun activity, but L decided she didn't want to participate in building a robot "that might get destroyed."  Okay. :-/

She also spent several days in IL with her grandparents, as her cousins were also there visiting from the east coast.  I missed her a lot, and as always, she was fine without us and had a blast with her cousins.  I wish that she had cousins that lived closer, as I did growing up. My cousins are still among my best friends today. She only gets to see them once a year or so, but they always have lots of fun together.  We joined them for the day when we went to pick her up on the Sunday before CfK started. 

We also recently adopted a sweet little girl hamster, Pancake.  She is so sweet, with the cutest little face.  She's quite entertaining and routinely shocks us with the massive quantities of food she is able to stuff into her cheek pouches.

She is living in Luciana's room, in a huge cage (unfortunately, it's the only safe option for her) with lots of enrichments.  She has a playground that she comes out to play in, and L changes the layout of it all the time to keep her from getting bored.

Though she cannot be introduced to another hamster at this point, we thought she may at least enjoy being in the room with the rats, where she can hear, see, and smell other rodents.