It has been a full week for us. We have been gone more than home which is not our norm and I for one am feeling it. Monday Allen packed us all up and took us for a picnic in the mountains. It was a nice surprise. The children had a blast around the water. They found some eggs of some sort (fish, frog?) at the edge. The big find for the day was a columbine flower. (pic taken before the discussion about not picking wildflowers….) We had just made a notebook page about them since they are the state flower although we hadn’t actually seen any until now.
Wednesday we had our piano lessons and errands and yesterday we had my midwife appt. I can make a 95% announcement that this baby is a…….
GIRL! Ok but with the disclaimer that I am still 5% unconvinced lol! After six boys you get skeptical when you hear news like this. <g> Tell you what though, we got a long look at her(his?) face with the tiny little mouth just sucking and swallowing away. THAT was priceless. Baby is measuring right on target for dates so I 
think we are looking at pretty close to Christmas for delivery.
After the appt we drove up to Denver to shop for pianos. Ours has been played into the ground and with so many pianists in the family we need to make an investment in a higher quality instrument. Investment is apparently the operative word there. Ouch! That and ugly. Gone are the days when a piano was graced with lovely woodwork and carving. : p I will really miss our old upright. Looks like we are going with black for a new one, since that seems to be the most attractive option. I now need to rethink the living room plan I thought I had worked out last week.
What else – scrapbooking and vet care but I will give those their own posts. Guess we ought to try to do something academic here today, though I have to hope that all these outings contributed something to their storehouse of knowledge. We had a field day in the mountains, learned more about pianos than you ever wanted to know, got a first hand look at fetal development, and now can regal you with equine dentistry info. Not to mention seat work in the car. That counts right?? Hope you all had a great week!
Starry Sky Journal 
Here in Wales we have a flower which is also called columbine but it is a lot different to your flower. It does have its whiteness in common, but ours is trumpet shaped and an extremely rampant weed. It is a climber which happily strangles any plant/hedge/tree which gets in its way. Very pretty but every gardener’s bane.
There, now you’ve added international botany to the week’s learning! LOL
Mom’s family has been on the Western Slope of CO for over a century and columbines are always blue to her, I’ve never seen her so disappointed as when a columbine plant we bought her for Mom’s Day bloomed red and yellow – ick! She pulled it right up and handed it across the fence to a neighbor! LOL!