wildlife...

Last Saturday while on walkabout in the garage as Henry and Mommy slept, Luke and I discovered a baby bird, which promptly ran under one of the cars. While crawling around on the floor trying to find it, something suddenly caught my eye......



Channeling our inner Crocodile Hunter, Luke and I quickly found a wooden pole and a threaded hook, which we fashioned into our own homemade snake handling tool. While our first attempt was a miserable failure, we regrouped, moved bikes, moved the van out and were able to locate our quarry once again. By now Mommy and Henry had awoken to provide us with an audience. Take 2 was a success, and we had finally captured the biggest (well ok, maybe not biggest) snake.



A quick trip to google filled in the blank, and we identified this as a totally non venoumous baby black rat snake, obviously a baby since the adults get closer to 8 feet. Once we knew he (or she) wasn't poisonous and enjoyed feasting on rodents (take that chipmunks!), we took a short walk to some nearby woods and set him free. Luke was sad to see him go as he had his sights set on keeping him as a pet, but we decided that wild animals were happier in the wild (and not in our house.) Oh, and by the way, the Black Rat snake is a prolific climber, easily scaling trees up to 40 feet, so next time you visit you might want to keep an eye on the sky....Yikes!

Big Brother

Luke has been quite the big brother lately; everything from bringing cookies from his snack at school home to Henry, making sure Henry stayed in line at the Braves game(see below), and reading to Henry whenever he gets a chance. This is where we found Luke and Henry one afternoon reading books in their "bear cave".

Next stop the big leagues....

Well it has been a baseball week around here. First on Wednesday Luke went to his first session of tee ball camp. What he lacks in skill, he makes up for in bravado, as the night before he asked "Why do I have to go to tee ball camp, I already no everything about tee ball". Mind you, he had put a glove on for the first time that afternoon.

Then on Sunday, Daddy and the boys headed out for lunch at The Varsity followed by a trip to Turner Field to watch the Braves Play. It turns out that on Sunday the kids get to run the bases. Make sure to check out the video to see what a great big brother Luke was in keeping Henry in line, as parents were not allowed to stay in line with the kids. And then to top it all of, the kids were very excited that they got free shirts from "Mommy's Work" as CHOA was the shirt sponsor, and their logo was on the back.

growing up fast....

So today, the boys and I were in the Target and Luke looked at me and smiled. That's when I realized that something was missing--yes, a tooth. He has lost his first tooth (and the one next to it will be next soon.) He had no idea and the tooth is nowhere to be found so I suspected that it went down the hatch with this morning's oatmeal. We will have to leave the tooth fairy a note and hope she understands....

Snaggle tooth

More of the same, but I love Henry's face as he hangs onto the cart for dear life!