More Pumpkin Patch Fun

See this turkey?

And this one?

See this little girl?

They've met their match!

 She was yelling that they were "ugly and delicious."  HAHA

 She is SO her father's daughter.  :)

 It's on!!

We had a fun day.  :)

PuMpKiN PaTcH FuN

Sailing Away...

The tropical storm has flooded our entire street and some homes.  This afternoon Tim had to sail the girls down the street so my mom could take them as we dealt with stuff around here.  Our kitchen flooded yesterday and our garage today.  All is OK for now and we are bracing for more rain.   We cannot drive out and have been trapped.  Please pray for this to pass quickly.

More Praying Mantis Babies!!

Remember this?  Well, now we have had two of our own egg sacks hatch!!  And the newborn babies were smaller than the one I previously posted about.  See below:

Here is one on Cinderella's arm.  These little bugs are so cute and loving.  They WANT to be held and when we'd put them down they'd reach right back up for us.  Sleeping Beauty was there too but it was in the morning and she was looking rough and said the pictures of her were "a horrible."  ?!

 This was looking down into the little bug cage the hatched in.  We put them in a bigger one Tim made until we could get them in the garden.  :)

 On my lens cap:

 On on my hand:

 Cinderella got one on her nose.  :)

We have kept several in a big bug cage Tim made and we catch them little bugs to eat at night.  The girls love have them around and so does Tim.  :)

Ladybug Love

A month and a half ago or so I bought some ladybugs from a nursery.  We had hoped some would stay for our garden but they all flew away within a day or two.  It was worth the $8 anyway.  See below:

Cinderella with the ladybugs before we released them:

View from the top:

 Ladybugs in the hair!  Sleeping Beauty loved this!

 The garden looks completely different now.  This was on March 19th.

 All over!

 And on the strawberry plant.

Dolphins and Beach Fun

 We went to the beach today for Sleeping Beauty's preschool field trip.  We saw several dolphins (one in the photo above) and a beached baby hammerhead shark.

We had lots of fun with our friends and came home beat.  :)

Baby Praying Mantis

It's a baby praying mantis!

 A couple of weeks ago we found a baby praying mantis in one of our front yard flower beds.  He became attached to Tim and he couldn't put him down without the mantis clamoring back to him.  It was really cute.

Here he is on out bottlebrush bush:

 I love this picture.  He was so sweet.  We couldn't get him to eat so we let him go later that same night never to see him again.

 Here is our egg sack.  We are still waiting for them to hatch. IF it ever hatches we should have between 100 - 200 babies.

 Profile shot:

Cinderella's Field Trip

Last week Cinderella went on her first non-preschool field trip and it was to the zoo.  Much fun and she was so good.  :)

BeAcH fUn!

 We have been spending a lot of time at the beach.

Sleeping Beauty's toes

 Snaggletooth McGee Cinderella

 This was their idea...

 Two bodies and one head...

 Sisters Summering at the beach

 Strike a pose (with a shell) 

Blogging Block

I have hit a rough patch with blogging.

 I love to do it.

 I hate to do it.

And then I just don't have the time to do it.

I am around - writing always - but just not in the mood to blog it.

I will be back soon.  :)

In the meantime, here are the crazies the other day at the zoo dino exhibit: