And he brings home another.........

Yup! He's done it again folks. Randy has rescued yet ANOTHER kitten! This little girl was rescued from the same property as the last kitten. She doesn't have the same kind of sad story but needs to find a home none the less.

She is an adorable manx kitten - she has no tail! Kaiden is calling her Starbit for now and she has all the spunk to match the unique name. She loves to sit curled up on your lap and rides around on our shoulders. Benny has taken a fondness to her, filling in as mother cat, cleaning her and cuddling her when she sleeps. Let us know if anyone may be interested in giving this cute little girl a home!!! There are more pictures of her on flickr.

Sept. 5

We had an early start to our day - 6am!

Kaiden made his own pb&j sandwich for breakfast.

Star Wars movie- the one with Boba Fett.

Playing with animal toys - Kaiden has them all organized into endangered and non-endangered species.

Rope swinging from the big oak tree.

Relaxing while watering the butterfly garden.

Donuts with Dad! (he was out fighting a fire all night long!)
Walking the dogs.

9am - off to Shark Tooth Beach in Venice with Mike and Melissa.

Searching for sharks teeth, playing shark games, and looking for pirate treasure.

12 noon - Playing in the pool making huge monster waves.

The dogs take a dip too!

Lunch break, another Egypt movie, and LOTS more mummy make believe!

3pm - mom heads off to work

Making brownies with Dad and thoroughly enjoying it!!!!!

5pm - Mike and Melissa come over for dinner.

A bit of roughhousing and some good family fun!

Then bedtime! Everyone enjoyed sharing stories about their childhood with Kaiden and tucking him in for the night!

Whew! What a wonderful day!

I love my Mummy!

Recently Kaiden has shown a lot of interest in the subject of Egypt, especially mummies. I bought him a few books from the bookstore about Egypt and he absorbed all that he could in the past few days.

Now he is on a mummy kick! We have a pyramid drawn on our driveway with underground passage ways for us to explore, and a burial chamber. Kaiden is the mummy fast asleep in his sarcophagus. I am the archaeologist who is in search of the great pyramid and I come across the mummy and "excavate" him only to have him chase me around the pyramid!

Kaiden has also made his own book about Egypt that is continuously growing with pictures of pyramids and mummies. Yesterday we bought some ace bandages and wrapped him up like a real mummy! We even rented movies about Egypt. Today his goal is to make himself his own sarcophagus. I'm not sure how that is going to be done but with Kaiden, anything is possible!

jelly bean anyone?

Have you heard of Bertie Bott's Beans?? They are the jelly beans in the Harry Potter books and we recently tried them out. Well, I should specify that Randy and Kaiden have tried them out. I'm have not been brave enough to give it a shot yet! But why would I with flavors like grass, boogers, vomit, earwax, pepper, and sardines?


This is Kaiden when he realized he had just eaten earwax.

And this one is vomit!!

Why would you subject yourself to such a thing? I don't know. And I'm wondering who would want the job of coming up with getting the taste exact? "Oh yes, we've finally got it! This tastes just like a booger!". No thank you!!

But Kaiden thought these beans were the greatest thing. He pops one into his mouth, spits it out disgusted, and then tries the next one. Randy has tricked a few folks with them (Grandma was one of them) by just offering them a jelly bean and not telling them what to expect. That's just cruel!!!

August 29

This is what adventure looked like yesterday...

Kaiden wanted to know how to make a "real" bow and arrow so we spent most of the morning researching and collecting supplies. The first bow we made busted from the string not being strong enough and we had a hard time finding the perfect arrows. But after much trial and error we made 3 awesome bows and Kaiden found that old bamboo makes amazing arrows!

I loved their adventurous spirit - exploring in the woods, fighting off dragons and snakes, and of course perfecting their aim!

i spy with my little eye

Kaiden: searching through my purse "Mom, what's a tampon for?"
Mom: "ummmmmmmm..........."
Dad: "It's for absorbing things!"
Kaiden: "Can I use it?"
Mom: "Sure"
Kaiden: puts the tampon down his underwear and walks away
A little while later I walk into his room and see this:

Cute.

Kaiden, Connor, Brian

slowly coming up for air

Another exciting day - Melissa's baby shower! For some strange reason I was having a really hard time taking decent pictures and I didn't get one good one of the little mamma. But she was absoluty gorgeous in her little red dress and glowing from head to toe. My pictures do her no justice.

Tons of relatives came into town to celebrate from as far away as Michighan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania! The boys left us girls to do our typical baby shower type things.

cake and presents,

chatting and baby shower games.

It was wonderful to see everyone and feel all the excitement for our new little family member! We can't wait to meet him!!! If you're interested in seeing more pictures of the family take a trip over to flickr.