We have been enjoying a full summer schedule of playdates, swimming, YMCA classes, Scouts, dance team and now kickball league! I'm also still planning out next school year and trying to keep my house clean. I think if there were 3 of me, I still couldn't get everything done that I wanted to. :-D
I officially turned into an old lady yesterday, but had a good birthday nonetheless. Ryan worked his magic and installed the recessed lighting I wanted in the master bath, complete with remote- controlled dimmer over the garden tub. I guess I'll keep him around.
I had to get a picture of Delaney in her usual evening post. We have a couple of neighborhood cats that she has been buddies with since they were kittens. In these warm evenings just before bedtime, you can find her perched at the very top of our playground, having some alone time with one of the kitties, having pleasant conversation. She is very good with animals, and was delighted to find out that she can be a kitty foster mom when she grows up.
The girls danced at the local library's summer reading program kickoff. We even ran into Aunt Nan & the kids while we were there. (Josh opted to stay home and watch "Worst Case Scenario" episodes; he's a bit of a Bear Grylls junkie.)
This is Delaney with her bestest friend on the dance team, Gabby.
Sadie's preteam normally has 10 girls, so it was impressive that they did so well that day with only 4 of the girls! (It was the same night as high school graduation around here, so lots of people couldn't make it.)
I really wish I had video of this rather than a picture. Ava's age group was doin a little dance move where they are supposed to wiggle their knees. She was perfectly smooth runnin those knees back and forth, I was dying laughing. You can see that her friend to the side was an admirer as well. ;-)
I like this shot because you can see the studio owner, Miss Dianne, with my other two girls in the background. She is such a great teacher, my kids really love her.
Of course, no outing would be complete unless someone caught a creature. Really.
Here is Sadie with Mr. Baby Toad.
I don't think I ever posted about how we have once again found ourselves with reptiles and amphibians in our domicile.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, we were gifted a small turtle by our non-English-speaking cleaning lady, who had figured out that we had a house full of creature-loving kids. We already owned a tree frog. Both of those will ensure that you have to also keep live crickets as pets in order to properly feed the aforementioned creatures. So it seemed like quite a production. We also had a cat and a hamster. Yes, I KNOW.
Anyway, we were gearing up to take our extended vacation to California, so we had to start farming out the pets. One of our friends already had a massive aquarium set up with fish and frogs, and she loved turtles, so we arranged for her to take our turtle and frog. The day before we were going to take the pets to her, my kids found another small turtle in our yard, so she won the jackpot and got TWO turtles and a frog.
Fast forward to about a month ago, when I got a call from this same friend who was now getting ready to move herself. She still had the turtles, but now instead of a tree frog, she had an African clawed frog.
So . . .
Junior and Kimmy are back.
And now we also have Big Bertha.
Big Bertha is kinda creepy-lookin, I think. And sometimes she stares at me while I'm on the computer. But I'm getting used to her. It is fun to watch her eat guppies, so I put up with her. It's totally Animal Kingdom in this house, I tell ya.
Well, we're gonna take off to my old stompin grounds to visit Mee Mee for Mother's Day this weekend, and get in a little beach action while we're at it. See you next week!
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