Paper bags, snakes, lizards, Simon Says and Mulch

No, we were not invaded by some very strange aliens, it is just the boys after a trip to the grocery store. :) Of course they could not see a thing, so this game resulted in lots of falling, and stepping on Ryleigh. But, they had a blast. The biggest excitement last week was a snake in our yard. I wasn't sure what kind it was, it was really long and there are a lot of poisonous ones around here. So our neighbor came over and we killed it. Aiden was all boy and picked it up with this little stick right afterwards. It ended up being just a black snake, but better safe than sorry.The next day he was catching lizards. If he ever brings any reptiles into this house, he will be very sorry. But at least he can catch them for me now when they get in the house. Ryleigh watching Daddy getting his boots on in the morning. She was sitting on my lap and as soon as she saw Jason she had to get down and crawl to him.We had mulch delivered yesterday. A lot of it. I was outside from 10-5:30, raking and moving mulch around. The boys thought it was great, they used it as a ramp, a place to hide golf balls, to jump in, and to just generally make a mess. You should have seen all the mulch in Kyle's boots when I took them off last night.

Before kids, a job like this would not have been fun, but I wouldn't have called it hard. Now, I would classify it as hard. A flare prayer before kids probably was, "Please don't let there be any traffic on the way to work." Now, my flare prayers are more like "Please don't let anyone be seriously wounded or bleed too much while I am in the shower." I try really hard everyday to tell myself that this stage in our life is short, and they will not all be little forever. I don't want to wish these years away. But, days like yesterday make that difficult!! :)

This is a new game, it is called "Ryleigh Simon Says". They follow Ryleigh around and do everything she does.

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