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Mokey’s school has a Black Lives Matter flag and a Pride flag under the American flag. (The American flag is on edge in this picture, but I promise it’s there.)

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Matinee of “& Juliet” at the Hippodrome! These tickets were a birthday present to the kids two months ago.

We almost didn’t make it. There was a six alarm fire at a restaurant around the corner and traffic all over this part of the city was stopped.

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Happy fall! Apple picking at Baugher’s

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First day of high school!

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Hershey Park Howler

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Finally got to the pool today

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They do this thing during the birthday song where they point to each other on the “to you” line.

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Fourteen!

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Coolest family ever!! This gives me so much hope as a queer person who wants kids and is interested in homeschool :-) Is your family a fan of Fraggle Rock? (looking at the nicknames Mokey and Wembley)

Yes! We haven’t watched it as much lately, but we do love it, and that is the source of the internet names.

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Mokey and Wembley attended a week of day camp at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. CSC does a different play every week of camp, rotating between a few teachers. This week was Macbeth with their favorite Shakespeare teacher, Molly Horton Booth. Here they are in the epic battle at the end of the play.

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At Camden Yards for Pride Night

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Tired teens near the end of a hike at Swallow Falls

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Greetings from Deep Creek Lake!

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“I mean, laws are social constructs anyway, but they’re more mutable in Adventure Time.”

Wembley has been trying to convince us that Princess Bubblegum is a war criminal.

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So, the very best thing about homeschooling is getting to spend so much time with these goobers. But the SECOND best thing is living a life where learning stuff is really fun and exciting. We’ve been thinking of this trip as our Art and Architecture trip, but our first day was focused on geology and dinosaurs, which was the most lovely bonus!

We visited Dinosaur Ridge, where the world’s first Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus specimens were found! There is a small indoor exhibit (the Discovery Center) and a trail, where you can find SO many very very cool things. We saw trackways and actual fossils still imbedded, evidence of the inland sea that would have covered this area in the Late Cretaceous, courtship marks, bulges believed to be the underside of footprints, and an incredibly rare raptor track—there are only 12 known raptor track sites in the world!

There were also a bunch of really incredible geological things, including these two: volcanic ash layers and this amazing large spherical concretion!

Click to embiggen the pictures!

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…and photography! Both Wembley and Mokey discovered panoramic photos while we were at Red Rocks, which was really cool. Ondiru and Wembley worked on the trippy photo above looking at both Ship Rock and Creation Rock from an unusual angle, with the sky in between. There are just so very many cool photos to capture!

I really like this one of Mokey’s, where Creation Rock is peeking over the edge of the finished stairs. And Wembley took this other really cool one. It’s not a digital filter. There are a bunch of concession stands at the upper circle and Wembley noticed the reflection of this tree in one of the off duty menu monitors. I LOVE it!

Mokey also took tons of gorgeous pictures of the sky & clouds