W learned about plant reproduction so we dissected a lilly and a lima bean. I have to say that W was quite funny about this. I thought it was really cool. He kept acting like it was too gross to touch all the parts of the flower.
The lilly I bought from a local flower shop had a couple of buds coming off of it. We kept them in a vase of water. One of them opened up, as I like to say, "with a vengence". Seriously, this lilly looked angry, it opened up so wide I thought it was gonna fold backward.
We kept it and it survived for about two weeks and then the other bud tried to open but the whole plant just started to look wilted and brown even as it was trying to thrive, so I threw it out.
All in all I'd say it was $7.25 well spent.
We took 3 weeks off for Christmas and New Years and this week we are back to work. Starting fresh feels good. It was nice to take a long break.
