Fall fun

Now that it's cooling down a little outside (the high temperature is in the mid-90s most days instead of the 100s), we've been spending more time with Mother Nature.

One day Hazel, Turner and I got to go to work with Mom while Dad was in California. Going to work may sound like a drag, but our mom has no ordinary job. She writes news articles about amusement parks and takes photos of us on the rides for her story!

We headed out to a small amusement park about 15 minutes away. They have lots of rides, including a train, ferris wheel and airplanes. They also have ponies, but Hazel and I were scared of them.

Anyway, we got to ride all the rides. We even rode some of them twice. We hung out with the owners of the park, who were very nice. It was a great day, and now Hazel and I get to appear in a newspaper.

Another fun thing we all did together was we set some ladybugs free in our backyard. We read that it's good to have ladybugs in your yard, so one day a few weeks ago, we headed to a garden center and bought a little bag of ladybugs. The bag was small, but there were 1,500 ladybugs inside.

We kept the bag in our house for a few hours until it was almost sundown. After dinner, just before bedtime, we took it outside and set them free on our plants. They got all over us. Mom found one in her hair a couple hours later, and Hazel found one in her bed.

I liked the ladybugs at first, and Hazel was really into it. It was a great time while it lasted. They were all gone the next day, and we haven't seen any ladybugs in our yard since.

For pictures of our day at the park, click here. To see more ladybug fun, click here.