Too Much Going On!

There's way too much going on, and its way too late at night, for me to tell everything that's happening. But here's a summary.

The Incourageable Bees: They built a football-sized nest in the tallest peak of our house. The exterminator visited four times to finally get rid of them, after he sprayed the first couple of times they built new nests over the top of the old one and the overall size increased to basketball-sized. Today he took the nest down. Tonight, there's a small nest being built where the old one was, and a couple of bees working on it even now, at 10:00 at night. (Yes this picture is the actual nest that was on our roof BEFORE they added the new nest over the old one that had been sprayed.)

Shelly Ann: She's now able to scoot forward, one push at a time, but not on her knees yet! (And she can hold her own bottle which is really nice when it comes to trying to feed her while I'm eating supper, because she's always hungry right when supper is done.)

Bastille Days: The highlight of the festival was Archer watching a mime performing and then turning to his dad and saying "The French think they're so funny." The second highlight was showing Archer what the Eifel Tower looks like up close. David ordered chocolate cake for me and cheesecake for Archer but when we sat down to eat it Archer claimed the chocolate cake was his. So goes parenthood - eating the leftovers when the kids are done.

Camp Snoopy: A great success, Shelly was the only girl there but she had fun watching the group of six boys playing in the pool for two days. Tonight I witnessed a five-gallon sized bowl, filled with popcorn, disapper in minutes as twelve hands reached in to grab as much as they could and then shovel it into their mouths. And the lemonade went just as fast, with gallons being divided up into six cups which were promptly emptied and re-filled. Archer really enjoyed the games with his cousins and he's looking forward to next year! (P.S. I'm really impressed with how well all the boys got along with each other, how polite they were and even though it looked like "every man for himself" when it came time to eat, they still gave Archer his share when he asked, and there wasn't any real fighting about who got what. Way to go Laurie & Dave, and Jim, you guys have great kids!)