The GIANT Spider

This giant spider (he's much bigger when not dead and his legs aren't all curled in) moved in to our screened in porch sometime yesterday. I first discovered him when I opened the door to out onto the porch and he came running to hide under the step I was going to go down.
I decided to just close the door and stay off of the porch. When Cyle called to say he was on his way home, I told him he needed to kill a seriously big spider. I got the whole, "Yes, dear. You're such a wimp, dear. I'll take care of it because you can't, dear." speech. He didn't really say that, but he might as well have.
So after supper, Cyle went out to find and kill the spider I was too scared to acknowledge. And when he did find it, hiding under Levi's tackle box, HE JUMPED and said a few choice words.
I felt so much better. He agreed that it was a seriously giant spider and didn't even want my shoe to kill it. He went for the spray. Which made me feel that much better.
I'm not touching anything on that porch. I'm keeping the kids off of that porch. Just until I'm sure there are no more spiders like this one lurking around.

Levi the T-Rex

Yes, I know it is unbelievable. This sweet little boy is a T-Rex. At least that's what he told me yesterday afternoon...

after he bit this little boy. He told me he had "sharp teeth and sharp claws. Roar!"

For those of you that don't know, our lives revolve around dinosaurs.

All toys relate back to dinosaurs.

Their bedding is dinosaurs.

All cartoons are dinosaurs. So it shouldn't surprise me that my children have become dinosaurs as well. I just wish they wouldn't bite each other.

Clayton the Catfish

Last weekend, Clayton had been playing outside. I was working in the kitchen. He came in carrying the blue cup and asked for some tape. I asked him, "Why do you need the tape?" He replied, "I'm going to tape this to my mouth so I can breathe under water like a fish." Okay... So we taped the cup to his mouth. Then he wanted the coffee straws taped to his cheeks so he would look like a "catfish."

So, actually, it didn't really work that well. But he sure did give it a good try!

Pure Preciousness

Happy 2nd Birthday, Levi!

Levi turned 2 on August 13. He was so excited. All day long he kept saying, "I be 2!" His day started with chocolate chip pancakes and a dinosaur candle.

We moved on to present opening chaos...

then escaped to the basement! Levi got to choose the games and what we played all day long.

For his birthday supper, Levi requested peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Cyle and I decided we needed something with a little more substance so we made brats and corn on the cob. These actually are some of Levi's favorite foods. He ate the entire bratwurst and all of the corn off the cob. No, he didn't miss the pb&j.

Especially because I made him peanut butter and jelly bars!

He loved blowing out the candles. In fact, once he had his cookie, we had to put a dinosaur candle on it and light it. Once it was in front of him, Levi told us, "Sing!"

He wasn't quite sure about the dessert.

But did really enjoy it! Happy birthday, my little two-year-old!

Clarey Asleep

Cyle's been playing around with our camera, using more of the features and different settings. He took these one evening as Clarey slept.

Happy 4th Birthday, Clayton!

Clayton turned 4 years old yesterday. He had a great day. It started with chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. Continued with a gift opening frenzy. Then he got to spend the day choosing exactly what games were played. He was really lucky this year because Dad and Nonna were also home all day to celebrate. For his special birthday supper, he requested crab legs. (Actually he asked for lobster, crab legs and crawfish for dessert...)

He changed his mind and asked for apple pie.
Then he decided he wanted to have a pie eating contest. We weren't allowed to use utensils...




Clayton thoroughly enjoyed the contest and was easily the winner. The rest of us just weren't willing to lick our pie off of the table.


It was a great ending to a great birthday!