Earth Day

Brooke was so excited today. All of the third graders brought home a white pine tree for Earth Day. She told her dad last night that she was going to get one and that she wanted him to help her plant it today after school. He told her to pick out a good spot and was very quick to remind her that SHE would be the one mowing around it. The poor girl, he's going to have her on that mower all spring and summer! Anyway, we got the tree planted and she was very proud of it. I told her she has to remember to water it. I sure don't have a green thumb! She wasn't too happy with Jeff when they were planting it though because he kept throwing earthworms on her! Gross! Blake was riding his dirtbike around them as they were planting it. Quite a sight! Blake is really into recycling right now. He has us separating our trash and recycling absolutely everything. I know it's a good thing to do, but honestly he's driving me nuts! He's constantly looking at the bottom of everything to see what "number" it is so we know how to recycle it. They've been studying this at school and he is taking it very seriously! I guess we're going to become a "Green" family!