Timber

Today we had 6 of our pine trees cut down, 3 that were dead and 3 that were on their way to death. The yard looks different on one side but there are still enough pine trees to make it not too noticeable. I have to say there is a lot less shade on the South side of the house. Time to plant 2 more trees, just need a good 10 day slow drizzly rain to soften up our rock hard clay. I have to say it was fun to watch them climb up the trees and swing from one to the other as they cut them down. Made for good morning entertainment.

Possum

This post is a little late, but here it is none the less. The day was April 12, 2011, a Tuesday. The kids had been home from school for a few hours and I was sitting at the computer to respond to emails, check blogs, who knows what. Emily comes in from the back yard yelling at me and very excited/nervous "Mom you have to come see this big thing" (now imagine her eyes wide and talking with her hands). I get up thinking OK what is it another bug, frog, unknown insect? We walk to the back yard and get half way to the play fort when she stops and points at the fort saying, "It's over there." So I cautiously walk to the fort and look around the corner at the bottom (the bottom is closed off and you can only see under it when you turn the corner) and there it is, the "big thing". There lying on the ground looking rather sickly a bigger than average possum. I get a little nervous because, well have you ever seen a possum? I send the kids in the house and call the neighbor and ask what do I do she comes over and is as clueless as me. I wait until Paul comes home and he disposes of it. All I will say is there was a pitch fork involved and little to no mess. The possum never had a chance poor little creature. Ever since this Emily has been scared of almost everything. Now she thinks there are things under the beds at bedtime, she was afraid to go into rooms without someone with her (she is getting over this one) just much more scared of the unknown. Life in the wild suburbs...

Reagan sleep

Last night was the first night of turning off the baby monitor and letting Reagan cry herself back to sleep. It was pretty good except that we did hear her and we woke up twice. Once she woke Nathan and he wanted us to go get her. Hopefully 2 more nights and she will be sleeping all night. She was just not settling even when I would nurse her she wanted me to walk her and rock her back to sleep, while this is not a bad thing, by 7 months mommy needs to get back to getting decent sleep. Plus waking up every two hours does not make for a happy mom in the morning!!

Visitor

This morning Nathan was upstairs and started shouting for us to, "Come look out the window. Hurry come upstairs!! There's a deer in the back field!!" So the girls ran upstairs and I went out back with my camera in hand. When I opened the door all the dove, that were eating their breakfast of sunflower seeds, flew off. That drew the attention of the deer. When I looked through the opening between the gate and the fence, there it was. It was a BIG one and I think it was a male it looked like there may be the beginnings of antlers. Good morning!

Another one done

I finished another quilt this one was going to bed for Reagan's crib, however it was too big and then I did not like it, but now it is my favorite (everyone I do becomes my new favorite). There is no real purpose for this quilt, I think we are just going to let the girls use it to play with, with their dolls, pretend tea parties, etc... I have been using it to lay Reagan on when I am outside working. The bonus was that it was REALLY easy!

...And She's OFF!!

So I posted that on June 16 Reagan pulled herself up for the first time, well on June 21 she decided it was time to crawl her way up the stairs!! This girl is going to be trouble! (and she is pretty good too!)

for you...

Mr Steve Spence, I have finally posted some new posts, I have "stopped quilting and more blogging" I hope that this is enough to get you through the next week or two. I will be posting more as time allows, but now I must get to more quilting!! ;)