Kitties Wearing Glasses

By default we have become the owners of an outdoor kitty. Shortly after we started leaving his food out at night we discovered it is Wild Animal Kingdom in our backyard at night. We have seen raccoons and opossums up on the porch. Kitty and the raccoons even eat together. I have befriended Meshack. Her babies Shadrack, Abednigo and Daniel used to visit, too, but they are growing up and are becoming more independent but less friendly. I have recently began patting Meshack and feeding her by hand. Waaaay cool! Zeke does not really know the difference between the cat and the coon since their fur is the same color. One night he looked at the coon and said, "Kitty has on glasses."

Quote of the week

We're in the beginning stages of potty training at our house. Zekers will do absolutely anything to get out of nap time, and this time he threw an 'I gotta go poo poo' out there, knowing full well that I would let him go, hence pushing back nap time a little more. He actually went big potty for the 2nd time ever (I told you he's desperate to get out of naps). After I did some celebratory dancing and singing I asked if he was finished. He answered, "I got a lot of turds in the butt."

The Gimp is Back

Well, I guess it's that time of year again. It's been about 12 months since the last major accident, so he was living on borrowed time; Abraham broke his foot this weekend. He was playing ultimate frisbee and was attempting an ESPN 'nuh-nuh-nuh. nuh-nuh nuh!' play and it all went wrong. So now Momma is taking care of 3 babies for the next few weeks, as he was instructed to keep his weight off of his foot. We went ahead and purchased crutches--odds are he will be needing them again sometime in the future...

Quote of the Week

I told Zeke to look at a little squirrel in the yard sitting on his bottom eating. I said, "Look, he's eating something," to which Zeke replied, "He's eating an acorn." Duh.

Five years: The Bluegrass Anniversary

A few weeks ago Abe and I celebrated our 5th anniversary. Congratulations to us! We (...or was it all me?) decided to celebrate our anniversary every year in a different country. It has worked out for us so far: married in Jamaica, 1st year Canada, 2nd year Mexico, 3rd year England, 4th year Puerto Rico. Somebody threw a wrench in our plan this year. I don't want to name names but she's a couple months old and nursing. [insert combination cough/mumble 'Daisy!' here.] So we took a trip to visit Sister and Co. in Louisville.
This was Ezekiel's first plane trip that he realized what what going on. He was pretty pumped that we got to ride on a bus and then an airplane. That's the way we roll.

Zeke was loving having 3 constant playmates around 24-7. He didn't care that he was the youngest of the boys, but they all got a little tired of him messing their stuff up. And to be fair, he broke Nathan's squish ball and Nick's watergun and probably something of Alex's we haven't discovered yet. And Abe broke a plate, which Nick informed him he "was going to tell his Daddy when he got home!"




I can't say that Daisy was as excited to see the boys as Zekers was.


We went to the Speed Museum in Louisville, went swimming, and we spent a beautiful cool day at Huber Farm in Indiana. The kids did all kinds of fun stuff, as you can see from the pics.







Oh, and Nick was helping Zeke potty train whilst we were there.

I love me some summer sun!

Daisy's first month

Make a Smilebox photobook