Hunting Squirrels

This week we got 2 new bird feeders. We have some trees right on the other side of our fence, and there always seems to be some birds hanging out.  I love to watch the birds while I am doing dishes...it's a little escape from mundane.  My little eucharisteo.  ( You will want to look up that word now :)

Soon after putting it up, I discovered someone else was enjoying it too, a squirrel.  That's when I called the dogs' attention to it and sent them out for a little hunting session.

 The squirrel was cornered. He was up in the "see rock city" feeder. Sophie and Griffin had him surrounded. Finally he got up the courage to jump from the feeder to the fence. Luckily, he cleared it. Once he was safe on the tree, he started screaming. I have never heard a squirrel make so much noise. It was like he was putting all the other squirrels on alert.

The rest of the day Griffin spent much time looking out the window.

 Since then, we've seen the squirrels come into the yard, but they haven't dared to run up the feeder. They now feed from the ground...the seed that has dropped. Smart critters. 

Here We Go Again

I made the mistake again. I told Natalie we were going to Disney world.  Of course, she has known this for a few weeks and now all I hear is "Mickey's House".  I should've learned from my first experience with Dylan that at age 2-3, you don't tell the kids that you are going.  As it is non-stop "mickey's house".  Whenever she gets upset and says bye bye. I ask where do you want to go, Natalie says "Mickey's house"  She's playing with her babies and her stroller, she says "bye bye Mickey's house."  She insists that once she gets there she's going to say hi to them (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Ariel), kiss them and hug them.  Time will only tell.  My bet is that you will be seeing a picture of Natalie crying and clinging to me here soon.

Dr Seuss Week

This week, Dylan's school celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday.  Monday was backwards day.  Tuesday was crazy hair day. Wednesday was Pajama day. Thursday was crazy sock day. Friday was dress like a book character day.

For crazy hair day, I saw a cute idea on pinterest for boys.  We colored Dylan's hair green.  I went through his bug collection and picked out several types and used glue dots to glue them to hair clips.  He told me that he had the coolest hair in his class.

For crazy sock day, yes, I saw yet another cute idea on pinterest.  We already had red socks from soccer.  I bought a blue feather boa from Hobby Lobby and some googly eyes.  I made the Thing 1 and Thing 2 from cardstock and wham.  Crazy Socks.

Book character day was a little scary.  At first Dylan said he could be Gerald from the Elephant and Piggie books. Perfect. We have an elephant costume and black glasses. Then he quickly changed his mind.  We went through several of his costumes we already owned to see if we could make any of them work.  (We had to have a book to take with him, so I just needed to find the book to go with the costume.) Dylan has been really into Peter Pan for the past 2 years.  Then he wanted to be Peter Pan. Ok, I can do this right?  I bought green felt, brown felt and a package of red feathers.  It was fairly easy. I just had to get creative, and of course, no sewing, just hot glue.  The main tunic was made by folding the rectangle in half and cutting a small "V" at the top for the head.  I cut the arms with jagged edges and the bottom at a "V" The tunic was tied with a felt belt with a felt sword tucked into it. The booties were just made to drape over his shoes. A little brown square with a hole "measured over the exisiting hole of his shoes. Once the felt laid over the shoes, I trimmed it and added a crease down the middle with hot glue for some character.  As for the hat, I am no help there. I had 3 versions and I'm not really sure how I squeaked it out in the end.

Back At It Again

I have rescued many a lost dogs in my time.  Why, at one point, I kept 2 dogs for about a week while their owners were on vacation.  The dogs didn't have tags so it took me a while to find the owners.  After that experience, I said never will I again help a dog without some sort of tags (at least rabies tags I can work with).  However, if you know me, I can't leave a baby on the streets especially with bad weather approaching.  We saw this little guy walking around our neighborhood and I was like, nope, no tags. Fast forward a few hours and I hear Dylan "momma there's a dog out here without a home" sigh, bring him on in.  Griffin really enjoyed having a play mate for a few days, but unfortunately no owner came forward and I couldn't live a normal life with 4 dogs especially one that barks really really loud.  Thankfully, someone contacted me that fostered for a local rescue that wanted the dog.  I pray that it works out for this little guy and this owner.  From the story that I heard about him (he was microchipped and I spoke to one previous owner), he's had about 4 owners in his short 2 years of life. He's such a sweet boy and I don't know why he's been bounced around so much.  I hope this is his forever home.  

Cheers Franklin,

So Says Dylan

I wanted to take some common phrases and cut them and half and let Dylan provide the rest of the phrase.  Here they are, so says Dylan....

1.  Don't change horses (because they will poop)
2.  Strike while the (lighting comes)
3.  It's always darkest before (the sun rises)
4.  Never underestimate the power of (making noodles)
5.  You can lead a horse to water but (you cannot lead a horse to grass)
6.  Don't bite the hand that (feeds you)  -  Impressed he got that one
7.  No news is (bad luck)
8.  A miss is as good as a (biting a peanut butter chocolate sandwich)
9.  You can't teach an old dog new (tricks)
10.  If you lie down with dogs, you'll (get mad)
11.  Love all, trust (in me)
12.  The pen is mightier than the (bite)
13.  An idle mind is (a joke)
14.  Where there's smoke there is (fire)
15.  Happy the bride is (that loves you)
16.  A penny saved is (a nickle)
17.  Two's company, three's (cousin)
18.  Don't put off until tomorrow what (the fire alarm)
19.  Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry (and think happy thoughts to make you happy)
20.  There are none so blind as (blind people)
21.  Children should be seen and (not heard).
22.  If at first you don't succeed (I will cry)
23.  You get out of something only what you (do)
24.  When the blind lead the blind (another person joins in)
25.  A bird int he hand (is flying away)
26.  Better late than (not late)

Second Verse Same As The First

Here we are again.  Dylan woke up in the middle of the night complaining he was hot. (I assumed it was because I toted the kids downstairs and had them on the air mattress since there was a tornado warning.) However, when he woke up again and said he was hot, I felt his head and realized he had a fever.  I haven't been impressed with the pediatric office we've been going to since we moved to Cleveland, so I decided to take him into a different office (that's a further drive). I was totally impressed with the new office.  They had sick walk in hours from 8:30-9:00 and a separate entrance/waiting area for sick children.  The rooms were all decked out in different themes (we got the jungle room theme).  The doctor that we saw was very attentive, checking and rechecking symptoms.  The results came back as Strep again.  We just finished our antibiotics for strep yesterday, so apparently, that one didn't work for him.  Here's to this antibiotic working for him.