Architects in the Making!!!

I got the getting outside, feeding them healthy, reading books, colouring/crafts thing down pretty good. But just to sit and play with the kids and imagine with them I sometimes struggle in that area. For some reason though when we pull out the Lego blocks I can always think of a super fun thing for the kids to build and play with. Today was a Zoo. We had 4 different sections. Africa, Ocean, Dinosaur and random creatures that would be eaten if they had to live with Dinoasurs or Tigers. The project took almost 40 minutes and the play only lasted about 30, but it was a great time. Then of course when Me and Macie were not looking, Wade like usuall had to go and destroy it. Macie will be the Architect of the family and Wade the bomb expert on how to blow up a building. 

I Find it Kind of Odd!!!

It all started with Macie's blocked tear duct, we had to see specialists because it was not going away, thankfully a month before we were going to have to go in for another appointment and probably book for surgery it went away. Then around 14 months she got pink eye (conjunctivitis), then Wade needed his turn. Getting bit buy a Dog right on his eye, stabbing his eye with a Dinasour tale getting a subconjunctival hemorrhage. Then this week Wade's eyes started getting really goopy and full of yellow junk, then turned red, I took him to the Optometrist and he confirmed conjunctivitis. While there I also had him check Macie's eyes as hers where puffy and I thought she might be catching what Wade had. Instead we talked about her having seasonal allergies and very dry eyes. He said hers are quite bad and we might need to put her on an eye drop for life. Really I thought what are the odds of me working in the eye world and my kids although nothing serious have had all these little eye problems. I wonder if there are lots of little stories like this of adults that work in the health care industry and have kids that have problems in there field. Anyways here's to hopping Macies eyes will look better next week after being on drops that he won't want to put her on drops for life. How annoying would that be, and kind of expensive. 

Photo dump!!!

Theres a Squirrel in my Garage!

Just another boring Saturday. Waiting for the rain to come, Working on a few projects around the house.  I was gathering tools from the garage and when out of the corner of my eye, I see this puffy tail whoosh around some debris. What the heck? I think this day is looking up. I round up the kids and pets, and shut the garage door. We are going hunting kids. 

Our garage is a huge mess, filled to the brim with junk and stuff that should be stored in a shed, so its a maze with tones of small hiding spaces. With the help of my incredible mini retrievers we sniff out the beast. Those hounds are great on the ground. I would shake the shelves and scare out the varmint and the dogs would work the chase on the lower level. Molly and Lilly were in dog heaven. haven't worked that hard in like, well ever.. The kids were my eyes and ears and excitable commentators.

This squirrel was a little daredevil. Scaling shelves, garage door, boxes, even some death defying leaps. eventually he trapped himself in a tall box. HA HA. But we could not grab him. It was like the Matrix in a box. The beast was leaping side wall to side wall.  Kids were watching with intensity, screaming and jumping at each sudden movement. The dogs were going nuts. 

After a bit, we all figured it would be a good idea to let the little dare devil go. Opened the box and tried again to grab him this time he jumped from the wall to my arm and out. Kids were screamin' dogs were spinning out trying to catch the vermin. I learned a big lesson, even if the garage door is open doest mean the animal will run to freedom. Yeah so open cages outside and close all doors to your house or vehicle or what ever.. anyway the little fella did not want to leave the comforts of our garage. 

It took a lot of chasing and screaming, sweat and laughing to get rid of him. I almost grabbed him a few times but he was too quick. By no attempt of his own, we finally got rid of him. He had climbed up on the top of the open garage door, so by closing it he had to jump off and out side. YEEHAW. 

I think All parties had a good day. Now our dogs are obsessed with going into the garage.