Friday Feature: Life Cycles

Every night at the dinner table, I'm as predictable as they come - I turn to the kids and ask, "So how was your day?" So predictable, in fact, that Caroline has begun to preempt me with, "Let me guess, you're going to ask how our day was!"

Um, yep. Every night.

Lately, John has told me about the life cycles they've learned about - the butterfly, the frog, and apparently, rocks. I don't recall ever learning about the life cycle of a nonliving thing, but John illustrated it for me at home one night: