Let Us Pause For A Moment

Lots of things have happened, and are happening in the next little bit.  I promise an update of our awesome vacation, and the house, moving, and everything in between.  But these updates will be coming later.  We have found out that we need to be out of our rental sooner than we thought. (Aug. 9)  Thanks to the city, not the landlord. So I will update again from the new house sometime after that.  Until then Feliz Navidad!
Okay that was dumb.  Typical me!

Oh, The Humanity

Since we are packing and cleaning, we are finding some interesting stuff.  We were doing the Noodle's room and we found something that made me scream and want to get out of this house faster than ever.

Snake skin from our little snake encounter last month.  I am so grossed out.  I can't even believe I took the picture of it.  Nasty with a capital N.

Ten And Change

Oh little Mister.  We are on the go with this guy.  He is trying to run... everywhere.  He loves to dance and listen to music.  He thinks he is as big as his brothers and sister.

 He has finally had his bottom teeth come through.  They have been a long time coming.
He loves water and will play in it any chance he gets.  Needless to say, we leave the bathroom doors shut now.

 If you can see in the next photo, he has 3 pacifiers.  He loves his B.

 He has also weened himself off of bottles.  I don't know how permanent this is, but I sort of hope it lasts and sort of miss snuggling with the bottle.

He is still such a happy little guy and brings such joy to our lives.

The Older Ones

Since I haven't posted much this last little bit, and since you haven't seen much of my older kids, here they are.

Chief ready for action.

Dancing Diva

Wet willie!!!!

Almost ready for church.

Building with blocks.

Doing her school work. (That's what she calls it.)

I got these foam shapes and the kids have been loving them.  The have magnets on the back and work great!

You Won't Even Guess

We do something all the time.  Lots more than most.  I bet you can't guess what it is....  Let me give you a hint.

Yup.  We are going to be moving again.  If you happened to read my previous post, know that the situations that arose there aided in this happening sooner rather than later.  We hope to close on this little home by the 1st of August.  I am so excited.  This is such a cute house.  It was built in the 1920's and has been completely updated.  Even better is that the house payment will be less than we are paying in rent.  BONUS!

4 This Year

I just want to let you know that we have had a certain species of animal come to our house.  I don't like it.  Supremo has taken the guise of Knight in Shining Extermination again.  We have had 3 snakes in the back yard and 1 IN THE HOUSE this year.  I need not remind you that snakes and I don't have a good relationship at all.  Thank goodness for Graham who has sniffed out and kept a couple at bay so Supremo could kill exterminate them.  Feel free to continue reading about the disgusting encounters, but if you are like me you can end here knowing that the world has a few less snakes to deal with.

1- This began with Supremo mowing the lawn and saying, I think there are some snakes in the back by the fence.  One day during lunch Graham was barking like crazy at a block.  I told Supremo it was snakes and he took a rake out to investigate.  It was. Supremo moved a block and one jumped up, another tiny one got away.  My wonderful little Graham kept the big one in his sights and Supremo started whacking it.  When he was done he held it up.  He could hear me screaming from the house.  But this doesn't end, because there was still the tiny one.

2- One Sunday afternoon Graham was barking and playing 'possom with somesing in the yard.  The boys were yelling that it was a snake.  I was done.  Supremo was taking a much needed nap, but that wasn't enough for me to not freak out and wake him up.  This time he took a snow shovel out, (he couldn't find the rake or his other shovel) and sianara to the snake.

3- This one is the most disturbing.  It was a Thursday and we had just got home from taking family photos.  The Noodle was about to head down the stairs to change and yelled, "Mom there is a snake on the stairs."   I don't know why he called me.  Like I was going to do anything about it.  Thankfully Supremo was home, and he took care of it.  Have I mentioned that I am totally in love with this man yet?

4- Same day as the house snake.  In fact this one was right after the house snake.  Supremo (in black pants, white shirt, and tie- That's what we did for photos) was getting rid of the house snake, and was confronted by another one.  (Okay, so he probably startled the snake more than the whole confrontation thing,)  Being the Shining Exterminator that he is, with not shovel he took care of this one with his foot.  In shoes I might add just in case you are getting squeemish.

So there you have it.  4 too many in my book.  Especially the one in the house.  Too much for me to handle.  Sorry if you have a love for this reptile.  It does not tickle my fancy, but to each their own.

Life Will Never Be The Same

I was planning on posting about how this little guy crawls.  If you will notice.  One hand in a fist, the other one open.  It is so cute to see.  When he gets excited he puts his head down and crawls as fast as he can.

Then I had to post a little bit about the Diva.  Can we just say FABULOUS.

 Sunscreen on the nose.  Classic.  Dad having his usual snooze.

But then this happened.  Yesterday.  T-Bug decided that it was time for him to walk.  9 months old!!!!! He hasn't been showing huge signs of wanting to walk on his own.  He loves holding onto hands, but was always plopping right to the floor as soon as someone let go.

 I was making cookies and he just went.  It was so fun to watch.  He got so excited.  The other kids were so proud of him.

 Love this boy.