Creations From Everyday Life

The Horney Toad

We have this Horney Toad that we caught a couple of weeks ago. Our original intent was to bring it to Kentucky with us and stick Grandma Tucky with it... since she always brings critters here. After doing some research and discovering that their diet is 90% Harvester Ants... which do not exist in Kentucky we didn't want to take him there to starve and die. So he's been living with us until we leave next week.

He (or she) is fascinating. Every day we go outside and catch between 20 and 50 ants and he eats them all as we watch. When he gets full he buries himself in the sand or hides in a rock cave we have. He sits on our kitchen island so he's central to everyone. Just now as I walked by I noticed that he's taking a nice jacuzzi in his water, apparently watching Thundercats.

I'll miss him when we let him go.

 

Happy Birthday Tess!

Teslyn was born 4 years ago today. At this hour I was actually quite annoyed that I was in labor with my 4th baby and had been in labor for over 24 hours with no end in sight! Aren't 4th babies supposed to come fast?! Jocelyn was in Kindergarten and I was counting the minutes until she got home so that I could pack up and drive to my mother-in-laws house because I was soooo tired. After getting to my in-laws I did try to rest, but my contractions were 8 minutes apart consistently and were strong enough that they would wake me up. Sleeping wasn't an option. Whe wasn't born until 11:48pm.

Instead of retelling everything, I looked back at my past blog posts and found the 4 (yes four) posts detailing every grueling detail. Enjoy:

 

Imminent Labor Notice

Still Here!

It's A Girl!

Meet Teslyn

 

 

 

 

Facebook, Apes & Geologists.

It's ALIVE!!!

Betcha forgot about this blog.

Truth being, Facebook has kind of replaced my blog with the ease of smart phones and automatic posting of cell phone pictures.  The thing that I don't like about Facebook is that it isn't a good way to keep a "journal." It's hard to recall the memories unlike here on the blog.

Yesterday, I went to the kids school to help Katelyn's teacher with a project. She needed photographs of each of her students dressed up as what they wanted to be when they grew up. I set up a mini studio of sorts in the school gym and went to work. While I can't share the photos of other kids, I can share the ones I took of my kids.

First here are some "test" photos when I was setting up lighting:

 

Here Kate decided to play dress-up with Tess:

 

And here is Katelyn's photo for her class project. She wants to be a geologist.

First Day of School

Today is the first day of school for the big kids. Calvin goes in to meet his Kindergarten teacher, but only stays for a little bit. Jocelyn and Katelyn rode the bus this morning and stay the full day. I can't believe I have a 4th grader!

I can remember 4th grade well. I had been bussed to the "projects" as part of a busing program in Louisville, Kentucky for 2nd and 3rd grade. In 4th grade I was able to return to the school that was located in my neighborhood. My mom took me, and because I was going to a different school I was nervous. I said the sh** swear word while walking up to the school and my mom smacked my mouth, haha! Then my teacher was pregnant and my dad kept saying, "I know what she's been doing...."

I have a very odd family ;)

 

This is the "bus stop dog." He comes to see the kids off and then wanders back home.

 

Kate turned back to wave "bye." Jocelyn could care less. She was OFF to socialize!

Punk Chick?

Jocelyn wanted a new hairstyle for back to school. Blonde and red chunks. She looks pretty darn awesome. Hopefully her school doesn't freak out ;)