crazy week

Sorry the posts have gotten delinquent again. Our neighbor Valerie is having some major health issues and it all started after her husband left for a deployment, plus they have a 2 year old son, so life's been a bit chaotic more than usual as we are trying to be there for her. Plus Emora is super cranks while she is pushing out 3 new teeth at once. She's only had 5 in such a long time and now she is getting her other top eye tooth, her bottom left eye tooth and first molar to the left. Not sure why her right side takes longer or if her last eye tooth is on it's way too, but it's made her particularly testy and snotty. Poor darling.

And then this month will just be nuts anyways. With us leaving, I'm trying to eek out everything I can from my YMCA benefits and so we are doing what we hoped to avoid- over schedule our lives. For this month only we have something going on every night Mon-Thurs and Sat. mornings. Swim lessons, across town for Ivan and Dom. Mondays and Wednesdays. Soccer practice and my water aerobics Tues. , my water aerobics Thurs. and soccer Sat. We have fallen into the wildness of kids in sports, but we will not do this indefinitely!

To appease your anger at my not posting, I'm adding these videos to delight you and endear you to me again.




A friend of ours had a made a puppet stage so that gave us our inspiration. We have the theater side, a treehouse/park side, a front of the house side with drawbridge entrance for the puppeteers and a mail slot for special messages. The last side is the inside of the house with beds that drop down for skits. The computer can be written on with erasable marker and we realized that you can add designs or details to go with skits with chalk on the cardboard. It has been lots of fun. We'll have to make another in Canada.

the puppet theatre


new hiding place