In Oklahoma, there are lots of bugs. I usually have anywhere from 10-20 mosquito bites at one time, somehow Morgan and Logan have been able evade the attacks. The locusts in our front tree wake us up with their buzzing, which is starting to die down a little with the temperature change, but that always reminded me of my parent's Mimosa tree growing up, I like the buzzing noise. And of course, the crickets everywhere make it feel like the remnants of a plague, but the real creepy creepers are the spiders. For the most part the birds have really taken care of all the crickets and locusts, but seem to have forgotten about the spiders. Now, I'm not one of those women who jumps on a chair and makes her husband kill all the spiders, but I'm not ready to invite them to dinner either. We were outside working and saw some rather astonishing spider webs and I thought that it was just a really big bug caught in it, and decided to take a picture, but when Morgan went to clean the web up, the spider came alive and about doubled in size and tried to escape, but Morgan got him. I just have to remind myself, it's sort of like camping. :)
After a hard days work, we like to relax, maybe even take a little nap, but sometimes Logan doesn't have the same idea:
Of course, I couldn't miss such a priceless photo op, so I snuck in with the camera, took a few pictures, and then Logan and I did the rest of the laundry while Morgan finished his nap.
So, yesterday was quite the adventure. First we woke up pretty early because we got to babysit our...hmmm, what is Brayden to us..cousin..something or the other, I'm sure cousin will do while they are growing up. Nola, Morgan's aunt had us babysit her baby Brayden while her and her husband Gary went to the temple. We had a few chores to get done before they arrived, so Morgan was out teaching Logan how to use the riding lawnmower...I'm sure it will only be a few more weeks and Logan will have it down and will be ready to ride solo. Gary and Nola let us borrow the mower, the backyard is quite large and weedy. All the mower needed was a new battery, which is a whole lot cheaper than a brand new mower, however, the mower is about 12 years old and they make them a little different and the battery was quite hard to track down. Morgan has been on the search for the last few weeks for a new battery for the mower and it finally came in special order this past week, so it was a quite momentus occasion to be mowing the lawn.
Morgan was still working on the backyard when Brayden arrived, so the boys got to play with each other for a while.
Logan: Hey, Brayden, I have a plan, on the count of three grunt and push. Brayden: Too late.
Logan: Pee-ew, I hope she changes you first. Brayden: I can't smell anything.
Brayden: Ahhh, much better.
Logan: Trick-or-Treat, smell my feet...
Finally, it was naptime for all of us. What a peaceful 10 minutes that was.
Morgan: See hon, we can have another one. Annie: Well, we did do a pretty good job on the first one. (no, this is not an announcement-we're still enjoying quality time with baby no. 1)
