he is very pretty. we have no idea if he is nice, he is too scared. i am afraid to let him out of the trap to test it. he isn't staying either way, so we'll let someone else tame him.
SPCA
so today, the camp will be making its third run to the SPCA since monday. dad started it off with the tom. since sunday we discovered two more kittens and a momma cat. we caught and delivered the momma cat yesterday and last night we caught the adolescent male that has been lurking over by mom and dad's. only two more kittens to go. we think. they might put us on some kind of permanent watch file over there at the SPCA. we might be delivering the neighbor's cats!
he is very pretty. we have no idea if he is nice, he is too scared. i am afraid to let him out of the trap to test it. he isn't staying either way, so we'll let someone else tame him.
he is very pretty. we have no idea if he is nice, he is too scared. i am afraid to let him out of the trap to test it. he isn't staying either way, so we'll let someone else tame him.
CATCH UP TIME
it has been very busy in this little household. not only with new things happening but also with little boys sprouting all kinds of silliness and fun. so i have decided to just make a mega entry.
first of all, mark has been busy selling things on craig's list so that we could have a few things happen here. we had wanted to go on a holiday for our anniversary but it just wasn't panning out like we hoped. thanks to a lucky sell in just enough time, we managed a weekend getaway that involved a little bit more than staying at home and squeaking through the trees to keep the boys from seeing us at home from my folks' place up the way. so we made it all the way to fresno instead. we had the best time-we knew where everything was, we went to our favorite restaurant, tried a new one that we had been eyeballing, saw a few movies and stayed in a fantastic hotel-all just an hour away! i highly recommend a vacation in your home town!
so on to the silliness and fun of this month, in no particular order:
my favorite odin line of the week:
ummm, mommy, can you clean up all the toys and i will sit down on the couch and watch you do it, um, all by yourself?
first we have odin doing his version of the incredible hulk as taught to him by mark, mixed in with a skeleton cross-eyed face.
the inevitable has happened: a kitten has been found at the camp and is now our new adopted pet. my mom and dad had just that same day set out a trap for an adolescent kitten that they want to tame. instead they caught a tomcat that has been harassing our cat thibodeaux. my dad took the tom to the SPCA, he is a stray that has been too much around anyway. mark found this little cat behind our freezer, it wasn't even on the list of to-be-caught's yet. a lucky discovery.
ronan in mark's shirt, i didn't feel like walking to the bedroom cabin just yet so he got to wear this after his bath. we tied it up in the back and odin thought it was hilarious.
i asked odin to walk ronan to grandma's house, they walked hand in hand the whole way!
kitten getting the thorough veterinary inspection, courtesty of dr. ronan pike. his orifices are clean.
this is the cheese i get every time i say 'smile'. ronan got a haircut, so i had to document that. he looks so sharp! by the way, he has officially made 20.5 pounds. a big deal for him.
enjoying wallace and gromit
one of the other new additions to camptime fun is this go kart that mark picked up through craig's list after selling a different vehicle the day before. he has been wanting one for a long time. we figured we should get it before it got too snowy up here. pre-christmas for mark.
odin 'helped' mark fix the brakes and the seatbelts on the go kart. he was sooo cold!
the first night that kitten stayed we kept him wrapped up. kitten claws! he is very good about everything now. he sits on my shoulder and sleeps on odin's lap. very sweet. odin named him "kitten", he is still so original with his naming....
my dad's half-sister judy stayed for a visit. they enjoyed some mario kart at our place.
bugles, we buy them for the finger stacking fun.
well, the boys got a kitkat at the grocery checkout. that kid had a blast with his treat.
it was so cold the day we brought the go kart home. icy cold. it had been nearly 100 degrees earlier that week. sent all of our skin into shock.
odin made a puppet out of one lonely brown bag i found while cleaning out a drawer in my kitchen
we made peach pie to celebrate a wonderful week of fantastic little boys.
first of all, mark has been busy selling things on craig's list so that we could have a few things happen here. we had wanted to go on a holiday for our anniversary but it just wasn't panning out like we hoped. thanks to a lucky sell in just enough time, we managed a weekend getaway that involved a little bit more than staying at home and squeaking through the trees to keep the boys from seeing us at home from my folks' place up the way. so we made it all the way to fresno instead. we had the best time-we knew where everything was, we went to our favorite restaurant, tried a new one that we had been eyeballing, saw a few movies and stayed in a fantastic hotel-all just an hour away! i highly recommend a vacation in your home town!
so on to the silliness and fun of this month, in no particular order:
my favorite odin line of the week:
ummm, mommy, can you clean up all the toys and i will sit down on the couch and watch you do it, um, all by yourself?
first we have odin doing his version of the incredible hulk as taught to him by mark, mixed in with a skeleton cross-eyed face.
the inevitable has happened: a kitten has been found at the camp and is now our new adopted pet. my mom and dad had just that same day set out a trap for an adolescent kitten that they want to tame. instead they caught a tomcat that has been harassing our cat thibodeaux. my dad took the tom to the SPCA, he is a stray that has been too much around anyway. mark found this little cat behind our freezer, it wasn't even on the list of to-be-caught's yet. a lucky discovery.
ronan in mark's shirt, i didn't feel like walking to the bedroom cabin just yet so he got to wear this after his bath. we tied it up in the back and odin thought it was hilarious.
i asked odin to walk ronan to grandma's house, they walked hand in hand the whole way!
kitten getting the thorough veterinary inspection, courtesty of dr. ronan pike. his orifices are clean.
this is the cheese i get every time i say 'smile'. ronan got a haircut, so i had to document that. he looks so sharp! by the way, he has officially made 20.5 pounds. a big deal for him.
enjoying wallace and gromit
one of the other new additions to camptime fun is this go kart that mark picked up through craig's list after selling a different vehicle the day before. he has been wanting one for a long time. we figured we should get it before it got too snowy up here. pre-christmas for mark.odin 'helped' mark fix the brakes and the seatbelts on the go kart. he was sooo cold!
the first night that kitten stayed we kept him wrapped up. kitten claws! he is very good about everything now. he sits on my shoulder and sleeps on odin's lap. very sweet. odin named him "kitten", he is still so original with his naming....
my dad's half-sister judy stayed for a visit. they enjoyed some mario kart at our place.
bugles, we buy them for the finger stacking fun.
well, the boys got a kitkat at the grocery checkout. that kid had a blast with his treat.
it was so cold the day we brought the go kart home. icy cold. it had been nearly 100 degrees earlier that week. sent all of our skin into shock.
odin made a puppet out of one lonely brown bag i found while cleaning out a drawer in my kitchen
we made peach pie to celebrate a wonderful week of fantastic little boys.oh, the laughs
odin loves to get ronan laughing, this is a surefire way to do it!
and then our budding comic- inspired by none other than spongebob:
third time is a charm.
and then our budding comic- inspired by none other than spongebob:
third time is a charm.
to the pond
ronan positively screeches when he hears the quad turn on. odin wanted to take his dump truck for a dip in the pond. the pond has sadly reached that point it gets to every year when there's not much left of it but a sloppy goo. there isn't an inch of water that isn't occupied by a thousand mosquito fish and a dozen frogs and loads of pond weeds. but that doesn't sway my adventurous men from wading across it to inspect that rock or turn over that boat. they are always finding things. i usually join them on their journeys to the pond, but i don't usually go in deeper than my ankles, and that only to keep an eye on ronan's own investigations of water and wildlife. i don't feel so inclined to slurp through muck. i don't trust it not to end up with some kind of ooky water creature that might rather eat me than slink away. i am pretty sure that the camp is Nessie's summer home. but i do enjoy a boat ride when they happen, i like to get out to the middle where it is still mostly water, even if only two feet deep.
by this time of year we sure look forward to seeing the water come back in winter, all snowy and icy, clean and clear. this year i think we will have to dredge the pond before the weather hits and clear out all the funny things that have ended up there over the years. i mean what is it about water that attracts tires?
I am so in love with my boys!
give us the biggest smile that you canthis is what we got!
ronan likes to pretend to eat everything. 'pretend' doesn't mean that the slobber and drool stays out of it. smack, smack, smack he goes.
some post-scripture reading wiggles. well, odin is a little occupied with his scripture treat.
we are really enjoying the family these days. we have been doing our best to get things in order around here before the baby comes. not that four more months isn't a lot of time to get ready, but with the holidays coming and the fact that our living situation tends to slow us down, we felt we needed to get it together. the result, more free time and more fun time with each other! i even had time for a few projects this last week, which i normally don't have. i didn't take any pictures and now they are off to their new owners, but i sure enjoyed doing them. time to pull together some more!
DADDY!this is the favorite time of the day for everyone-sometimes we go to the pond and go frogging and watch the ducks while crazy odin eats a minnow or two 'i can eat it?' he asks. the boys get to wrestle with their dad or help him on the computer. and i can go get dinner fixed while mark watches one or both kids, sometimes i can even squeeze in a rest. it is nice to have a wonderful hubby daddy who gets home in the middle of the afternoon. we'll enjoy it while it lasts.
odin teases ronan. it never ends. but here is the fun that they are up to:mark built us a comfy bench for our living room. we found that four and a half of us couldn't sit on the couch any more because we all want to stretch out and/or climb around-depending on who it is. mark decided to use some scrap lumber from a job site and from around the camp to make it work out.
voila, a few found foam pads and 21 bucks worth of brown vinyl upholstery fabric and we are done. mark did the whole thing and a very fine job he did. now the boys argue over who gets to take up the whole bench. ronan is enjoying some uninterrupted time while odin is at preschool.
hooray for me time!
odin came home from preschool and said that we still needed a picture of him on the the bench by himself. of course we do!
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