Our Interesting Day.....

Our day started quite normally with the kids getting up far too early, started school, got to a good pausing point, went to the store, came home, ate lunch, got the kids going strong in finishing their school day, and I decided to go outside and start taking the giant overgrown philodendron vines down out of the tree in the backyard. I got dressed, got my tennis shoes on, opened the garage door, and almost walked out of the garage and there was a SNAKE in my driveway!!! I don't DO snakes!!! So, like the responsible adult I am, I closed the garage door and went inside and got my camera!! He watched me very closely while I took his picture, and then I closed the garage door and went inside. I was DONE outside!! It was kind of neat because he was out in front of the house, so the kids could watch him from the windows. Then he went in front of the living room windows and there were THREE snakes all slithering around! ICKY, ICKY, ICKY!!! Luke declared he was going to have nightmares and not going to play outside any more, Emily thought maybe she might go outside after a few days, and Josiah decided all the snakes were eating each other!

Watching the snakes took a good portion of our afternoon, and then Leigh came home early from work!! That was a nice surprise. Since I was motivated and had my shoes on, and felt slightly braver with him helping me, we went out back to work on the vines. It was entertaining and we had a few Tarzan moments! :)

We didn't quite get all the vines down. They're pretty stuck up in the top where we can't reach. Kind of hoping maybe they'll die and fall out since we've cut them. As we were pulling some of the vines out to the curb, my tennis shoe fell apart!!

And that was our exciting day! I know, it's just sooooo thrilling, but compared to most of our days, it was quite entertaining!! :) :)

In other news, Susannah sat up two times today all by herself, and she doesn't scoot on her tummy any more, she does her best to crawl. It's kind of like an inchworm, by walking her feet/knees up and falling forward. Sometimes she puts her head down and scoots with her head down and hiny up! She's so funny! We keep waiting for her to turn a flip.