Something's Missing

Ethan lost his first tooth yesterday! He was so excited and has been working on this tooth for weeks. He was even more excited to wake up and see what the tooth fairy left him. I kind of want the cute little baby teeth to stay in forever...especially when I see how much braces are going to cost us for Madelyn who needs them in the next year! AAhh he's growing up!

A Challenge

Chad's family had a family reunion/birthday party for his Grandpa. They had asked before hand if I could bring my camera and get a picture of everyone in it. I was a little nervous about getting everyone in the picture, focused and not blinking, etc. but I think it turned out pretty good considering the number of people and the challenge of it all. And yes I had to do the whole timer run and be in the picture thing. Good times!

Did you know?

Did you know that you can successfully keep a potato bug...aka...roly poly...aka...pillbug...aka...whatever else they're called, alive for more than a few days?

Did you know that you can successfully breed said creature in captivity?

Did you know that baby potato bugs are tiny little white almost translucent creatures?

Yes we are the proud owners of baby potato bugs. Madelyn and Ethan brought home a little cup with seeds in it from a school activity back in May. Well Madelyn's didn't really grow anything so it was then converted to a home for 4 lovely potato bugs. That was over a month ago and they are still kickin'. This morning we took a peek at them and low and behold we saw a bunch of little bug munchkins! Who knew?! Here's a pretty bad photo of the bugs (guess I need to brush up on my bug photography skills). My camera lens didn't want to focus that close and when I realized how blurry it was the little bugs were burrowed in the dirt again. They are the little white things you see in the picture. There are more burrowed. Well I'm off, I think I have something crawling on me...

P.S. Did you know that ladybugs are natural enemies to these bugs?