We went over to the new house this morning to have pest control come spray before we move our furniture over. We were only there for a few minutes but I got a couple of cute pics of Luke. Beth is going through a "don't take my picture!" phase and will pout terribly if I try, so I've stopped trying. I'll give it a few days! Everything's a phase, right?
We have a long sidewalk in front of our house, and it's not like the sidewalk is coming up or broken, but for some reason Beth and Luke have each wiped out several times. The weather has been in the mid-70s and absolutely lovely, so they've both been wearing shorts. Now both of their little knees are all scraped up! Luke found a fire ant pile this morning too, luckily I noticed before the ants crawled onto his skin. The bug guy said he's spray the fire ant piles too, so I'm hoping that when we go over there tomorrow they'll all be dead!
We have a drainage issue in our yard- as in it doesn't drain. We have a ton of crawfish holes! The back of the backyard is a small pond after it rains, and the rest of the yard is very soggy and takes forever to dry out. Ryan really wants to remedy this problem, any ideas? We haven't looked into it much, our initial thought is just to add more dirt to the yard to build it up.
We spent our afternoon at home today, packing up a little more. I thought Beth had a pretty good understanding of the concept that we are moving houses, but today she sort of freaked out when I took her shelf off the wall. I've packed up books, toys and decor from her room, but I guess the shelf was more of a permanent fixture. She stated crying, asked me to leave it up and said she wanted to leave it in her room. I tried to explain that her room would be in the new house, and we'd put it for her there. She told me she wanted to leave it for the next people to use this house, but I still don't think she fully grasped the idea that this house won't be ours anymore. It was sort of sad, but I have no doubt she'll adore the new bedroom I have planned for her!
Despite the tears, they did enjoy playing with some boxes today. We made a couple of houses that they knocked over quite a few times. ;-)
yeah, i'm sorta famous.
what's the big deal with the prairie dogs? they look like squirrels.
very brave boy, he treated the goats like he treats finley! a little pat then off to something else.
beth was a little more unsure about them, but she did quickly touch one or two.
outside the monkey cages.
he wasn't too interested in the animals, he wanted to run around and climb on everything!
so happy to finally see the elephants! this is all she asked to see, all day.
it was a perfect day for the zoo, the weather was gorgeous and the flowers were in bloom!
a beautiful smile. :-)
what's a trip to the zoo without friends? there were big girls and little brothers. this is sadly the best picture i got of them, ha!
he finally gave in at the end of the day (around 2 pm). he got just enough of a stroller nap to not sleep at all on the way home!
