I was exercising early Friday morning last week when I saw a mouse in the basement. I hate mice in my house. I knew that there was a mousetrap over by the food storage, so I jumped off the treadmill and went to move it. AAAGGGHHH there was already a dead mouse in it. It has always been Chris’ job to dispose of the mice–he knows how much I hate them. I ran upstairs to look for another trap and couldn’t find one. EW, so with deep disgust I picked up the mousetrap (dead mouse and all) and walked over to the garbage with it to dump it. If I had been thinking more clearly, I would have brought the garbage closer to where I was. I cinched the garbage bag up tight and then reset the mousetrap in the new location. It snapped shut on me once scaring me but I finally got it set. My adrenaline was pumping when I got back on the treadmill, it was though I had a second wind. I was successful in catching the second mouse–more EW!-but sadly it was on Saturday morning when Chris was already in Florida and I had to dump this one as well. I didn’t want the girls to come across it. I haven’t caught any more since then, and hope that I don’t. I don’t relish the idea of disposing of another one.
Last week for Amy’s preschool, the morning and afternoon class combined for a trip to the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster. Amy was thrilled about going for days before. Her teacher asked if I would also come along and drive some of the kids, so Tuesday morning I packed a lunch for Amy, Misha, and me (Misha couldn’t stay home with Daddy while he worked) and we were off. Two other little girls-Peyton and Savannah-came with us. Talk about a bunch of high-pitched screaming. We finally arrived, paid our money, took care of bathroom needs, and then started looking around. We started in a room with spiders, beetles and cockroaches. Those roaches were HUGE! A volunteer sat in a far corner surrounded by little chairs holding “Rosie” the tarantula. Misha would have nothing to do with it, but Amy said, “I’ll be brave” and sat down on one of the chairs and held out her hands to Rosie. My camera was little slow but I got a picture of Rosie climbing out of her hands and she got a sticker saying “I held Rosie.”
They also had fish that looked like Nemo and Dory from the movie “Finding Nemo” as well as star fish to touch and an octopus. Misha was pretty intrigued by the fish. You would have thought, however, that they both would have loved the butterflies. Not so! They both cringed in fear when one flew close to their heads. It was terrifically humid in the butterfly pavilion, but despite protests from a few of the kids, we ventured into the plant jungle. Granted there were some butterflies big enough to be birds that Amy and Misha really didn’t like, but they didn’t like the smaller ones either. Amy was cautiously excited when a butterfly landed on my hand and sat there for about 30 seconds. When we told the kids that it was time to go, there were no arguments. We headed to the picnic benches out front for lunch before heading home. Misha, as usual, wouldn’t sit still, and eat but I gave her part of her lunch to eat on the way home.
I finally remember where I put Amy’s scissors the last time she was “grounded” from them for cutting things she wasn’t supposed to cut. When I brought them to her, she said, “Good job Mom, you’re a good finder.” You realize what you say frequently and how much the girls pick it up when they begin to say it back to you or to each other. The other day Amy was out in the van looking for some doll clothes. Misha asked where she was doing, and when I told her that Amy was in the van she asked, “For being rude?”
This morning Amy and Misha were playing in the living room, and I was in the office on the computer when I heard some commotion and then Amy saying, “Use your bean, Misha! Use your bean!” (At our house, that means, use your head-think about what you are doing). I asked Amy to pick up things on the floor of her bedroom this morning so that I could vacuum. When I went in, everything possible thing including throw rugs and toys from the closet were piled on her bed. Later in the morning, I asked Misha to help Amy clean up her room. Amy said “You can say that again!” She must have heard that somewhere recently because she has been saying it a lot today.
We finally received some new living room furniture that we purchased online back in January. I am getting used to it being there but don’t think I like the placement of it quite yet. Sadly, it is darker mahogany type wood and really shows the fingerprints and the girls certainly like to play on the coffee table, the end table, and the sofa table. At times I wish we hadn’t got them because of the upkeep. Just one more thing to keep nice.
Kevin and Candace welcomed Jeremy Matthew into their lives February 28th–three weeks early. What a treat! One day later and he would have been a leap year baby. He weighed 6 lbs 15 oz, was 19 ½ inches long and is doing great. Amy was excited since she has her friends Jamie and Jeremy. She would say “big Jeremy, little Jeremy” while moving her hands up and down to signify their sizes.
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