As spring is finally arriving in the frozen north country, fun and exciting boy adventures are arising faster than this mom can keep up.  A. came in with a caterpillar that he found outside and wanted to disect him.  Yuck!  Poor caterpillar!  I told him he couldn't do that to him while he was alive, so he put him in a jar in his room.

Today, he said he was dead, so off he went to the kitchen to retrieve one of my mostly dull steak knives!  “Oh no you don't!  Use your own knife!” I told him.  “But you said I couldn't touch my knife…”  Oh yeah, he was using it inappropriately, so it was taken away from him…what's a homeschooling mother to do?  Here is a 9yo boy WANTING to educate himself on what is inside a caterpillar.  So, I tell him he can go ahead and “disect” him with his knife, but as soon as he is done, the knife gets put away.  He then informs me that he was wrong, and that the caterpillar is still alive…so I guess the guts and glory will have to wait another day.