August excitement

Our first month in our new home has been a lot of fun.  The kiddos have had so much fun exploring!  We have found so many little critters in our yard; giant grasshoppers, preying mantis, snakes, worms...I actually got a picture of some of the more fun ones.  Here the boys are with the baby bunny Alan found while mowing the yard.  I thought for sure it would scratch and try to bite us, but I think the poor thing was so scared it didn't know what to do.  So that meant everyone got a turn holding it and petting it.  Oh how the boys wanted to keep it!  But after loving it for about an hour they decided to let it live "free and in the wild"

 Naomi has really started trying to be a big girl and wants to do everything just like us.  She has a little meltdown if she doesn't get her own fork to eat with!

 This was a particularly crazy day, one of those days when everytime you turn your back someone was getting into something...I think Alan had stepped out of the bathroom to do something with Isaac and Naomi decided it was time for her bath!  And of course Peter who was still in the tub let her jump right on it!

 After watching Lilo and Stitch Peter wanted to dress his sister up as a Hula girl...I think she loved the attention!

 The boys have been sneaking my camera a lot lately so I get lots of random blurry pictures, but these ones weren't too bad!  I seem to remember doing something similar as a child.  No clue that they are incriminating themselves!

 Here is Peter's favorite discovery in the yard so far, his blue tailed skink.  I am impressed he caught it and his tail is still intact!

 For the life of me I can't remember what Peter had dressed himself up as but I couldn't pass up posting a picture of it!

 And Issac is all for anything that gets him as close to naked as possible! :)

 Here is Maxilla our caterpillar that we tried to raise.  Alan found it while clearing some weeds/brush in the yard.  The boys were SO excited, we went everyday and picked milkweed and cleaned out her jar.  She was doing so good and then after she started hanging upside down to get ready for the chrysalis, she died.  Sad.  maybe we will have better luck next time.

 My parents and two younger sisters came to visit over Labor day weekend to see the new house and to help with some work in the yard.  We have 12 or so trees in our actual yard and many more that hang over the back fence and they were in need of some pruning, as well as the landscaping.  It was amazing how much work we got done with all the extra help.  The kiddos were thrilled that grandma and grandpa brought their new puppy Marty.  They were in heaven, but after getting knocked over a couple times Naomi liked playing with Marty through the window best!