we brought the boys home an elephant puzzle and a sweet drum. they love them both and have had a great time playing with them. tom and i had lots of fun picking them out and bartering for them too.

isaac taking a water break on the back steps, our first day home from guatamala.

took this photo the day before i cut that mop. again, for the sixth time. he's only two! how many two year olds have had half a dozen haircuts? i must add that the only reason i cut it at all is because after a certain point it begins to infringe upon his vision.

little cowboys

there's something stuck up in the chimney and i don't know what it is......

saturday morning we woke up to a very interesting situation. there was something in the chimney. our stove pipe is 6" diameter and there was definitely some kind of critter trying to claw its way out. except it kept sliding down, bringing creosote raining down woth it, which in turn caused nolan (who has awesome hearing) to keep cocking his head to one side and ask "wassat mama?"
after deciding that starting a fire was not the most humane way to go we finally settled on a dog cage with a blanket over it, me with a camera and tom disassembling the chimney. piece by piece. finally the mystery solved, it was a bird! of course the bird slipped easily out of the dog cage and them we had a comical time catching it as it tried in vain to fly out all of our very closed windows. after knocking itself silly four or five times we finally caught it and released the poor captive into freedom! not exactly the way i had hoped to spend my saturday but still lots of laughs! great job to my very brave husband who of course had no way of knowing that the "critter" we spent all morning hunting was a little birdie.

nolan finally decided that he likes his spiderman hat. he dosn't know who spiderman is though so he calls it his fireman hat. he was very proud to wear it while riding around the house on the tricycle.