My hubby has recently been to Texas. He had to go for some sort of boiler seminar-like thing. He was gone for only a few days but it felt like forever.

Anyway...

When he came home he, of course, brought gifts. The two older boys each received a t-shirt and the little ones received a stuffed teddy bear. Then my true love bent down and talked to my tummy and told Mikayla that he had something for her too. I was imagining another stuffed something when he handed me a ginormous dark blue sweatshirt. I laughed and asked if I am supposed to safe it for her.

My husband said that I will have to just wear it for her. How cute.

Then he handed me a sweatshirt that is obviously designed for when I no longer have a big belly. "This one is just for you."

Maybe it was because he had been gone for several days.... but my goodness... my hubby is so cute!

By the way we have finally reached 30 weeks gestation... this was the point I was at when I had my Brownie. Every day is now an extra bonus! (Mikayla is supposedly as big as a head of lettace.)

Wave...

Recently we have had the joy of watching the 75th annual "Daffodile Parade". It lasted over two hours, which is unusual... plus the sun was shinning. I can honestly say it is easier to find a place to sit when it is rainy.

My Brown eyed son marched in the parade and his great daddy chaparoned the experience. Both did a great job... one playing the drums and the other walking along side the gang. I thought both looked very handsome in their red t-shirts.

It actually was a pretty good parade. There were floats covered in daffodiles, clowns, pirates with a big cannon that my sister would have loved (Mikayla did not like the cannon). Dance teams, several different bands plus a really cute VW bug painted like a soccer ball that my other sister might have enjoyed. Several ROTC groups and even a float from Victoria, Canada.

The little boys returned home with a new noisy horn to annoy their siblings and everybody got a little bit of a sunburn. Good times were had by all... unless you ask my Blonde boy... he said "it was the same last year"... party pooper!

Homework.

My Squish is in the 1st grade this year and if I must say so... he is by far one of the cutest and smartest boys in the entire school. Not that I am prejudiced or anything.

Over Spring Break he brought home an assignment from class that is due this upcoming Friday. Not a biggie... lots of time (so I thought).

Simply put, Squish had to choose an animal, find it on the internet, discover some interesting facts about the creature, write it all down and last but not least make a "display" of all of the information that he had found. Seem like a bit much for a 1st grader?

The teacher sent home a list of animals to choose from; scorpions, tigers, tarantulas, monkeys, etc. All sorts of great ideas that can be easily found on line with pictures and everything. My son chose to do his project on a Blue-tongued skink. Yep. I didn't know what it was either.

He had read about it in a book at school quite some time ago and thought it was cool. Cool maybe. Easy to find.. not so much.

We did though actually find a blue-tongued skink web page that was rather interesting in a bizarre sort of way.

Anyway. The trick now is to convince Squish that he has to do the writing and finish the project, not Momma. "Can I just trace over yours?"

In case you wondered, this attractive critter lives mostly in Austraila and New Guinea. He eats slugs, snails, spiders and occasionally small animals. He is eaten by snakes, raptors and kookaburras (did you just sing?) They give birth to between 5 -18 babies at a time and can grow to be up to 2 feet long.

The thing that Squish likes most about this lizard is his blue-tongue... which it uses to scare away other animals... oh, and me, too!

Not being chosen.

Bart Simpson's prank calls to Moe's Tavern are nearly legendary, but the sad fact is that some people actually go through life with those goofy names. The following Bart creations all exist within the Ancestry.com databases:

Al Caholic

Oliver Clothesoff

I.P. Freely

Seymour Butz

Mike Rotch

Hugh Jass

Amanda Hugginkiss

Ivana Tinkle

Anita Bath

Maya Buttreeks