Farm zoo

My ward is awesome and my friend every summer sets up a summer group with weekly activities. We have Tuesday Park days and Friday Fun days. This was a Friday Fun day when we went to a farm petting zoo. They have all sorts of animals, not all found on a farm. Or at least I wouldn't usually think you have kangaroos and emus at a farm but I could be wrong... Anyway, the boys had a great time. They LOVED being able to touch and feed some of the animals. Warren was a little nervous the whole time unless it was a tine animal. They had little tiny baby goats that were adorable! I wish it had been easier for me to take pictures but that is what happens when you have three small munchkins. Definitely something we might have to do again next year. 

The joys of East Coast living.

So we had our house sprayed for termites and black carpenter ants. We never saw the termites but the ants... They were everywhere! It was disgusting! We had to keep our kitchen immaculate because I would come out in the morning and turn on the light and the ants would scatter. It felt like hundreds of them. Well, we got the house sprayed and on day 8 after I was starting to feel hopeless, like they would never leave. So I bought some borax and mixed up a sugar/borax drink for them and left it on the counter that night. This is what I came up with the next morning. Eww.

They are coming tomorrow to spray again because after a huge infestation it takes a while to get the numbers really down. We didn't see any for a long time but after about a month they slowly started coming back and now I have about 20 dead ants floating in the jar. It took about 3 days to happen. I can't wait for 10 days from tomorrow!

The most disgusting thing ever

Would you like to see something creepy? And disgusting? And make you never want to grow tomatoes again? Well, here it is!

Maybe that is just a kicker for me but it sure makes me NEVER want to go digging in my tomato plants as soon as I start seeing leaves disappear. Ick. Ew. Nasty. Gross. I found 2 of them last year that were that big and this year I found this big nasty sucker and 3 smaller ones. I clipped 'em good and threw them in the field right behind my garden. Serves them right for grossing me out. 

Poor sick boys

It has been a long few days. Warren got sick last Monday. It started as a small cough which turned into fever and horrible phlegmy coughs and a never ending runny nose and not eating. Today, Sunday, is the first day he has signed to us that he wanted to actually eat again. I could get him to eat squeezies and bottles but for 6 days that is all he would eat. Poor little guy. But he was sooo happy today comparatively. He played on his own, he ate on his own and he would play games with us and not fuss unless he started to get tired. It was wonderful to start getting my little angel baby back.

Unfortunately Dallin started coughing yesterday morning. Granted, he does seem to cough a lot when we spend a lot of time outside so we think he has allergies but this sounded worse and it has progressed into something worse. His nose isn't running but he has a horrible cough and when Dallin coughs he sounds like he is about to die/throw up/cough a lung up. It is intense. He has a hard time talking because this cough is so consuming to him that he kinda rasps something out but not really. It is so frustrating! But I am trying to be nice because he also isn't eating and has a good fever going. Hopefully he will sleep better tonight. And I really hope that it doesn't take him 7 days to get over this like it did Warren! Mostly because when he is sick he just wants to sit in front of the t.v. the whole time and that isn't going to float. Especially since we just bought another pool that they want to play in and I don't want them doing it if they are sick. He should be taking it easy.

And then Tristan... My dear sweet Tristan. I frequently feel like Tristan is overshadowed by Dallin and Warren and doesn't get much attention. He doesn't really demand it either because he has always been used to sharing attention. But he was very cute this morning when I asked him how he was feeling, if he felt sick at all and had a cough. He immediately responded that he didn't want to be sick so he wasn't going to cough any more. If only life were that easy. I also wish I could look at life that happily.