{"id":782952,"date":"2010-05-21T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T06:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/leigharev2\/?p=782952"},"modified":"2010-05-21T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T06:15:48","slug":"the-tadpole-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/05\/21\/the-tadpole-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tadpole Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all started around “R”s birthday.\u00a0 He had received some birthday money and bought a Star Wars Science tadpole\/frog habitat.\u00a0 We thought it would be neat to watch the tadpoles transition to frogs.\u00a0 We bought the habitat and eagerly sent away for two tadpoles.\u00a0 They said it would take about six weeks, and that is how long it took!<\/p>\n

Every day, the boys would accompany me to the mailbox to see if the tadpoles came.\u00a0 It was brutal for them when my birthday came late April, and I was receiving presents in the mail.<\/p>\n

Finally, FINALLY, the tadpoles came!\u00a0 We had studied all about how to care for them and what to expect.\u00a0 The boys had names picked out for a long time: ‘Luke Skywalker – XWing Pilot’, and ‘Luke Skywalker – Jedi Knight’.\u00a0 They were soooooo excited!!<\/p>\n

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Two days later, ‘R’ comes running into our bedroom, crying, and said that the tadpoles were dead.\u00a0 I went into the room, expecting them to be belly up, but was saddened to discover that the cat had dumped the habitat onto the floor and the two tadpoles were laying lifeless on the carpet.\u00a0 Both boys were very upset and crying, and I was hugging them and telling them how sad and sorry I felt.\u00a0 I placed the tadpoles on a paper towel and before throwing them out, I decided to place them in water, just in case.<\/p>\n

Low and behold, they were both still ALIVE!!\u00a0 We continued on with our day, but upon returning home, we discovered they had both died.\u00a0 Still, this reprieve had lessened the trauma.<\/p>\n

We have decided to hold off on any other little critters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It all started around “R”s birthday.\u00a0 He had received some birthday money and bought a Star Wars Science tadpole\/frog habitat.\u00a0 We thought it would be neat to watch the tadpoles transition to frogs.\u00a0 We bought the habitat and eagerly sent away for two tadpoles.\u00a0 They said it would take about six weeks, and that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}