A year ago today

 

Chloe came home to stay!

Than she weighed 7 lbs at 6 months old.
Now she weighs 21 lbs at 18 months old.

Than she could hardly hold her head up.
Now she walks, talks, and is all caught up.
(Except for only having two teeth)

Than she loved her middle two fingers on her right hand.
Now she still does, we call them silver and gold, because they are precious to her!

She is precious to us!

Of Tortiouses and Giraffes

 
 
 
 

One Saturday morning in February, Ryan said to Dawn, "We should do something fun today." Dawn replied, "Like what?" "Let's take the kids to the Giraffe center." And Dawn agreed. I think Ryan was a little shocked, cause I can be a stick in the mud.

We had a great time. Chloe fell asleep on the way so we let her snooze in the van with the doors open under close monitoring. So she missed most of the photo op. Seth wanted to get in the tortouis enclosure, and the adult giraffe's head is as big as he is. They are much bigger than one might think when close up. Chloe wasn't so crazy about feeding the giraffe's, their tongues are slimey and rough. She has a thing about slime.

In other news, our digital camera has died. It was a hand-me-down which we really appreciated and lasted a good four years, but it has died. It's been limping for a while. But our sony HDV handy cam takes pretty good pics. The memory card holds 11 cards, its the small card the camera came with. So today I dug out the manual and figured out how to download these giraffe pics. Next I figured out how to use the flash better. Chloe tends to be a shadow or the boys are over exposed. So hopefully I can blog more often now, now that we have a working camera option again.

Slugs

Chloe found a slug posted at her eye level on the side of our house. Convenient. She first whined about it, staring at it from 6 inches away. We went to see what the fuss was about and left her alone. Then she yelled at it and pointed at it. So her brothers would know of her discovery. She probably named it. Not sure.

Later Joyce went to check on her again and she had touched it enough to be slimed. Not knowing what to do, she sucked on her favorite two fingers named silver and gold. I think Joyce was thoroughly grossed out. She fetched her into the bathroom and scrubbed all her fingers especially silver and gold. Meanwhile Titus moved the slug to a safer place.

When Levi was 9 months old, he crawled outside to do some exploring and found a juicy slug on the sidewalk. It was juicy cause it had just rained and it was blocking Levi's progress on the sidewalk. Levi did what any curious 9 month old on his hands and knees would do. He picked up the slug and backed up so he could sit down comfortably. Than he tasted it, alot. We had a terrible time getting the slime off his face and hands. I think we even had to use salt on Levi to get it off.

Grace and Jack

Grace is my niece. She just turned four and learned her alphabet by watching Sesame Street. I think Sesame Street is about the only show she watches. That is my disclaimer, when you read the following sent to me by her mom Debra, my sister.

This morning over breakfast, Grace randomly asks me, "so what about John McCain is he winning or not winning?" Well, as you can imagine I laughed right out loud! Then we chatted about her question for a minute, and I returned to reading the paper. Two minutes go by, "so what about Hillary is she in or out?" I can't make this stuff up people! The child cracks me up!

And than my nephew Jack, also just turned four, learned how to down hill ski this winter. Not just the bunny hill either. He goes down the steep parts from the chair lift with his dad holding his leash so he doesn't get away. When he gets past the steep stuff, Dean unleashes him so he can go on his own. AMAZING!