Book Sharing Monday

Merry-Go-Round
A Book About Nouns
by Ruth Heller

Unbelievably, Ben likes me to read this book to him. My MIL bought it for the pictures, it's about nouns. I say unbelievably because it's just kind of boring! It's about nouns!

"Nouns are highly effective. The last kind of NOUN is COLLECTIVE. A tumble of feathers, a clamor of birds and a riot of colors abound."

"Wives is the PLURAL of wife... but just add an S to giraffe."






Pretty exciting huh... lol


But the pictures are interesting and different from what you find in other children's books.

Leslie Science Center is really awesome

Kelly has been visiting for a couple days. I want her to stay for the week, but my mom will (hopefully) need her support after Tuesday's court session...

So today we went over to the Leslie Science Center.

It's free, there's great trails to walk, they have rescued birds that you can see in cages. There wasn't any one else there, it was great weather, and a great day.

The owls are so cool. Ben calls them the HOo hoos.





Ben had a lot of fun walking the trails. He would cover up his eyes when we would go through weeds that covered the trails. It was really cute.


Here he is having a little rest on a bench.



We saw a couple butterflies that was really exciting. It was better than being at the zoo!






They must do some sort of a garden project for kids. It looks really fun. They have all different gardens, medicinal herb garden, a "pizza" garden, and then just individual gardens that kids grew themselves. Must be some sort of a community garden project to teach kids? I want to join, it looks so fun. I LOVED the 'Peter Rabbit' garden.

It even had Peter Rabbit's jacket and shoes that he left behind!


I got a lot of great ideas for my new yard :)

Just Another Weekend

Ben has started to "pull" me, when he wants me to go do something with him. He pulls my arm and does this growling like he's pulling reeeeallly hard. It's pretty funny.



Saturday we went to the Heritage Festival. It was cooler weather, it was actually nice to enjoy the day and not be sweating to death. We got to wear long sleeved shirts! I can't believe I'm not complaining about it, it seems like we had about a week of summer, but I really love fall.


It was just my mom, my sister, Ben and I. They had a toddler area with toys, and a petting zoo area. Ben really enjoyed the day. He was a really good boy. We heard lots of music, and before we left we got to sit and have a beer while Ben danced! It was fun. I always enjoy good people watching, and Ypsi is full of interesting characters to stare at.



There was another sad camel to ride. $5. This seems to be a new trend with fairs and festivals. I don't remember seeing a lot of camels when I was a kid. They seem really sad.


Yesterday I skipped out on a family dinner over at James' parents house. His parents are actually out of town, but his sister had her parents in town (gotta love complicated family situations) and they invited us over. James and Ben dropped me off at Dawn Treader downtown, I spent an hour in there, picked up 2 new books, then walked home. It only took me 35 minutes to walk home, I even stopped for a bottle of water. After I got home I took a bath and relaxed. I really enjoyed my day!

Lets see that picture again

I'm pretty proud of this one.

Found my plug

We went to the Hudson Mills "Metropark" last week, in Dexter, it's really close to the new house. It's beautiful! We only checked out a small area, I packed a dinner-picnic, James had to use charcoal, which he hates.. but whatever... and we played on the swings, played with some dinosaurs and trucks we brought, and took a walk down to check out the river. It's a really nice place.





Here's Ben playing guitar with a giant stick.







It's so strange to see our place "For Rent".


This picture might be a little too small to see, but can you see Charlie's little head poking up? He can be cute. Sometimes.

Lost camera cord

So I have stated to pack.... a little... and of course now I can't find my camera plug! What a pain!

I'll search for it today,




The only other update I have is that our mortgage application is up and rolling along, but our mortgage broker says that it's going to be September 15 or later that we close. Ben has surgery Ben 14, so hopefully we can have all this settled before !!

House update

Well we have a done deal. The seller is going to install the radon mitigation system, using a company that we picked. They lowered the cost of the house $300 (wow. big deal, $300 over 30 years is so helpful...) and they are buying us the home warranty ($400), so in the end we didn't get the cash that I was hoping for to fix everything, but James' parents said they would help us out, we'll pay them back of course.

SO the appraisal has been ordered, after that the mortgage process can officially begin hopefully pretty soon we will have an idea when we can CLOSE!!


Look at this awesome picture: This is what we look like when we wake up from a long nap :)



We got some big boy underwear. It's pretty exciting


Look at Ben's afro! He needs a trim I'd say. Hopefully this weekend.