Praying mantis

We were cleaning up from playing outside this morning, and Kayleigh started freaking out in her Jeep.  We knew some kind of bug was in there, but we didn't know what it was.  I was so surprised to see a praying mantis!  We heard a few weeks ago at the Grape Festival that they lived here in town, but I had never seen one.  I got a bunch of pictures of it while it was on Kayleigh's Jeep.  It looked like it might lunge at Kayleigh, but it didn't and we reassured her that it wouldn't hurt her even if it did.  Not a minute later it jumped on me, and in Kayleigh's words, I "freaked out"!  That may be an understatement.  We don't want our kids to be afraid of every kind of bug, but I don't really know what those suckers can do to a person!  Erik got it in our bug net and put it on the tree.

Here it is right before jumping on me:

Here it is on the tree after being rescued by Erik:

All by himself

I heard Brian in the kitchen playing around the dishwasher.  I had taken some of the dishes out, and he closed the door.  The next thing I know, he's in my room saying, "Ink!" (Drink)  The lid to his cup was resting on top of it, like I had left it after taking it out of the dishwasher.  I asked him if he wanted some milk, and he said no.  I went to get the cup and realized that he was so excited about his drink because he had grabbed the cup, gone into the bathroom to fill it up with water (from the sink) and then put the lid on it!  I still went and got the stopper for the cup to keep it from leaking and screwed the lid on all the way.  I couldn't believe he had done that, though!

Go Gators!

I did a lot of sewing in my first week, finishing with Kayleigh's new Gator dress.  I did the shorts for Brian a few days before.  There is one other dress that I made for Kayleigh, which I forgot to get a picture of her in.  I made her wait until Sunday to wear it because I was afraid she might stain it.  I'll get a picture of it the next time she's in it, maybe later this week.  I can't wait for Jenna's sewing Bible Study!  I'm going to put off any other projects until then.

Sew...

So, my friend Jenna has been sewing for a couple of years now and has made SO many cute things! She is starting a Bible Study in a few weeks where the girls will get together and sew. It sounds like fun, and I have kind of wanted to try sewing, especially since I have my grandma's sewing machine. That machine isn't working right now (boo!), but Jenna came over the other night with her machine and material, and we made this super cute dress for Kayleigh.

After I took Kayleigh's picture, Brian (of course) wanted to have his picture taken. Sorry about the lack of shorts...He wasn't done getting dressed.