It’s soooo hard to believe that Thaddeus is already one! His first year went by way to fast! You’ll note he’s the only kid so far who is privileged enough to have a balloon!
It’s just as hard to believe that Miss. Daphne is already three ………..
Gretchen and Duel’s birthdays have gone and past… Gretchens was 2 weeks ago and Duels was 9 days ago.
(sigh) Between pregnancy tiredness and a few other things going on during that time things just didn’t work out well.
Poor kids… their birthdays were rather bare and rushed this year.
We didn’t even do balloons.
We ALWAYS do balloons at least.
Don’t worry….we’ll make up for it next year!
Extra balloons even!
Aside from not having rain in such a long time ( apparently we’re near drought conditions ) , the rain is sooooo wonderful because of this:
That is not fog…. it’s SMOKE. Smoke from a fire that started 32 days ago.
http://www.ocala.com/article/20120318/ARTICLES/120319691
The 200 acre fire is now reported to be 280 acres.
This smoke has been awful… at any given time of the day our air quality goes down to nil because the fire is still smouldering and flaring up.
The scariest factor is that it had actually reached onto our neighbors property when it started! They took the girls to go see it afterschool yesterday and it’s STILL on fire!
We knew that it was close… but not THAT close.
Violet, Gretchen, Duel and I FINALLY got out to explore the woods last month.
The girls were oh~so~brave climbing overturned trees.
Even Duel got a little bit adventurous.
But not for long .
After that his mission was to insist that he knew the way out of the woods!
‘Guys, really, home’s this way!’
Violet saved Duel a few times…..
and then she saved Gretchen.
Saving Gretchen caused her to finally lose her loose molar
………..in the woods
…………in the leaves
which then caused a great tooth hunt.
The tooth was found.
Many band-aids were applied.
The woods MUST be cleared.
Then we checked out the retention area on the back piece of the property.
Scary….very eerie ….like filmed an alien horror movie scary.
I don’t think we’ll be going out there much.