You would have thought it was a monkey…

The way everyone was carrying on, actually J said it was a monkey (or maybe he said my tree, it is hard to tell with him a lot of the time still). Kids yelling Mom you gotta come see! Mommy come outside! Moooom Aba wants to show you something, all over a squirrel, an ordinary squirrel (well a Boy squirrel if we need to get specific) sitting in the top of our tallest tree, which is only like 15 feet and spindly and young. You would never know from this conversation that these children are avid hikers, go camping often and see all kinds of actual wildlife on a daily basis.

While the rest of the family is in Awe of the squirrel, Neighbor dad comes up to the fence and tells Aba the whole story of how this Big boy ended up in our gangly tree. Apparently around 9 o’clock this morning Big boy was on the fence next to us, when some kids came out to play and Big Boy made a break for it to our yard which looked so safe and empty from his vantage point and hid in the sandbox under the stairs, well little did he notice the Master hunter sniffing around on the other side of the yard, well of course this new smell awakened his hunting instinct and the chase was on… Big boy jumped and ran up the banister to the deck thinking as most squirrels do that they are up high, so they are safe, poor Big boy didn’t realize that next to banisters are stairs, stairs which Master Hunter can easily navigate. So up he came and Big Boy then ran back and forth across the deck rail several times with Master Hunter on his heels. After about 10 minutes of this, Big Boy made a daring jump to the other deck railing and hid behind the grill, thinking he had managed to escape Master Hunter, so when Master Hunter came up from behind the grill Big Boy jumped, He jumped high and far, and managed to land on the gangly tree, breaking a few of its tiny branches on impact but managed to hang on, and there is where he stayed, until I saw him at 3:30 this afternoon, and that is where he was still at 6:30 this evening when Aba and the kids made Big Boys discovery, and of course in true Aba style the first thing he asked was if I had put advantage on Master Hunter, which of coarse I didn’t, why would I actually do something I was told to do? And you all know what’s coming, now don’t we
? Yep, I got a lecture on the plague, guess apples don’t fall far from the tree, now do they???

Wordless Wednesday

Is it Cousin it? Nope, that is me under there, just another reason why I always where my hair "done". Wanna know something cheesy? I was smiling under there, because It was a picture, only no one can see me!

Do you get tornados too?

I get a ton of them, every weekend like clockwork. These tornados (yes there are several of them) rip through the house throwing laundry into every nook and corner, under the beds, and in the sofa cushions. It scatters shoes like breadcrumbs in Hansel and Gretal, plays hide and seek with pots and pans… and measuring cups… and plates… and spoons… and glasses. Toys and coloring books are tossed every which way, and fishing gear (I get up I get the joy of finding the true magnitude of the weekends tornado, and I gotta say It’s a good thing I got up an hour early today, as this weeks was off the charts!

2 ballerinas???

B has decided to teach Baby B ballet! It is so cute! Baby B laying on the living room floor, and miss B gently moving her legs (strait left, bent right) and saying Passe, (switch legs) Passe, switch legs again Passe. Good Baby B! now we do Plie, bends both knees. I always thought you had to walk before you could be a ballerina, guess I was wrong!

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Aba saw me up on the site last night, but didn't wake me to let me know, can you imagine? and then didn't even tell me till after breakfast! Apparently it is not such a big deal to him as it is to me, maybe he is afraid I will embarrass him in Cyberspace?

A landmark, my 100th post!

and to kick it off right go get your free seedlings to help re-green the planet. I wish I had something more exiting to post about today, seeing it is my 100th post, but it has been a fairly calm 24 hours. Except that my N, my 1st baby is spending the night away from home for the first time ever! Tonight is the practice camp out where the whole class sleep s over in the Gym to practice for their real camp out next month. It is so exciting and scary at the same time, he is excited, I am excited to see what a big boy he is becoming, but on the other hand it means he is growing up, and just reminds me that one day ( sooner than I will know) he will be grown and gone.

An innocent quote

Today after ballet class miss B said something that kinda threw me. A well known saying that is heard often in the south. Where she got it from I haven't a clue, but when the 6 harmless words came out of her mouth this is the first thing that popped into my mind.



Now don't get me wrong I love the Dolly of my childhood, and this is one of my favorite movies ( I don't know something about musicals gets me all the time especially when there are bad boys involved like with Crybaby, another of my favorites) but not one I have seen lately. And even though I was not raised in the south I like to liken myself to a southern belle ( well I was born and raised in southern California, does that count?) and can pick up a southern accent in about 2 seconds flat when I go back to visit the relatives, or listen to enough country music, but that is besides the point. So what would you think if your little one said...

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Wordless (??) Wednesday

notice all the safety gear for this lawn mowing endeavour, jeans, goggles, ear protection, and a hat!

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