Crazy, Sweet and a little strange!

The kids found a piece of wood in our driveway and under it were some ants...really big ones.  The boys immediately found various objects to smash the ants with; rocks, a baseball bat, a wrench, etc.  I looked over and Tatum was gone, but I could hear her voice.  She came out of the house talking very sweetly to one of the injured ants that she had taken inside for rehab.  The ant was doing fine and looked like it was going to make it.  Once she put the ant down with it's 'friends' she immediately began scolding the other ants.  "He's one of you!  Why are you hurting your own kind?  He's your family!  Be nice!"  Then, in true Tatum fashion, she got her notebook, pencil and magnifying glass and began to observe the ants.  Her conclusion: Ants are nice to their family ants, but mean to the ones that aren't in their family and that's why the ants attacked her rehabilitated ant!  He wasn't part of their family. 

And that's one of the crazy, sweet and a little strange things that go on around here!

Palm trees and freedom

Jarrek got some Old Spice deodorant and body spray that smells like (according the label) 'palm tree, sunshine and freedom'. Weston asks everyday if he can smell like Palm trees and freedom!

Choking turtle

The kids and I bought Tatyana our turtle some feeder fish today. Tatyana has a huge appetite when it comes to eating fish. She has eaten every fish we have put in our tank expect one lonely orange gourami. I put the 10 feeder fish in the tank and the kids sat with excitement as Tatyana chased them around the tank eating them one by one. I guess she got one that was too big to swallow and she was 'panicking' as Tatum said. Tatum and Keaton were very worried so Tatum ran to the computer to search on google 'How to save a choking turtle'. She was very disappointed when Yahoo Answers said 'if you have information on how to save a choking turtle submit it now'. Tatum said "I don't know that's why i asked yahoo". Tatyana ended up saving herself, but I think Tatum and Keaton have lost a little faith in Google.

Summer Relaxing ?!?

I thought Summer was suppose to be the time to relax and wind down from the school year. That is not how I would define our Summer so far or how it going to be for the remainder of Summer. We say it every year "We are not going to over book ourselves", but every year we do. It seems like there is never a day that we don't have something and our weekends are booked until the end of July! At least the kids are enjoying all the activities that we have planned.

Our next big adventure is our annual beach trip! We are all so excited and ready to get away and just be beach bums for awhile. I am sure there will be some great stories to tell after our trip.

This is our family photo from the beach trip last year. Many they sure have grown up. New photo to come soon.

Hello World!

I am making a great effort to keep up this blog! I took a moment to look back on my old post and loved that I wrote down all those wonderful things the kids said and did.

It has been a LONG time since the last post so here is a quick update...

Tatum is now 8.5 going on 13. She is still a dancer and singer and will do either (or both) where ever we are. For instance, we went to a Bombers game last night and the song "Centerfield" came on. Tatum did an impromptu tap/jazz dance to the song right there in the bleachers. It was pretty good and just amazed Jarrek and I.

Keaton is 7 and finally lost his first tooth, which has been a worry of his for about a year now. He loves baseball and is a great big brother. He is always teaching Weston something 'boyish'. The other day Keaton was showing Weston how to throw a baseball and Weston was soaking up all the big brother knowledge. Their new favorite thing to do is play Beyblades which are metal spinning tops that you battle with. Sounds simple, but is it very addicting...speaking from experience. ;-)

Weston is now 3! WOW, just writing that down makes me kinda sad. He is definitely not the baby anymore and will tell you if you mistakenly call him 'the baby'. He is loving spending time this summer with Tatum and Keaton. He loves dressing up as a cowboy or baseball player or both if he can't make up his mind.

Stay tuned for our adventures!!