Biggest Slug in the World

We were walking the other night and ran in to this guy on the path. Now Elsa is concerned about how large a snail can actually be. I kinda wonder too now....

Happy Birthday, Old Man

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,Such seems your beauty still. - William Shakespeare

Found in a Book Store

Quick, what's wrong with this?

Anyone?

Quick Visit With Dad

After two months of having my mommy take care of me (oh and the girls too, she took care of them too), she went home. So now I have to do all my own cooking, cleaning, and Adele will have to go to a sitter :( . She left Friday; I dropped her off at the curbside check-in, said goodbye, and headed to baggage claim to meet my dad who just landed here from Phoenix.

My mom does not really do pictures, so I have no documentable proof that she was here for over sixty days. However, my father digs the camera, so one full Saturday (we went to the Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point) produced all of these:

Elsa and Ryan and Adele waiting to go into the museum. I think this is the standard "Elsa and Ryan pose" for pictures together.

Ryan teaching Elsa about ancient bugs.

I don't know this kid, nor could I figure out who his parents were. I doubt he knew where they were either.

This water-sand thing is supposed to be a hands-on way for kids to understand land formations and shifts. It's so gross though. All those little hands in the same vat of dirty water....ewwwwww.

This is my favorite dinosaur (triceratops). I think they were the best looking of all the dinosaurs.

Ryan feeding Elsa to the T-Rex. You gotta do what you gotta do.

Addey found the whole museum experience very exciting. She was enthralled the whole time.

Big fish, scrawny girl.

We saw one of the IMAX shows at the museum.

Adele seemed as though she would be cooperative. She was laying like this, but when the movie started she arched her body to look at it, and she actually turned her head and watched the screen contentedly for about 15 minutes. Then a T-Rex roared and she screamed and screamed, so I had to take her out.

What we learned?

We can take this baby to a movie, but it better be The English Patient.

I Flied?

No...I falled.

I don't know what happened. I remember I was running, and then there was air, and then I saw the road aiming directly at my face and getting closer very very fast.

Then luckily, my keen instincts set in and I threw my hands out before I hit the. I dug my palms in to the asphalt and stopped the motion of my face less than an inch from the road. My Feet were on the curb, my knees were in the gutter, my palms in the road. And I thought, "My gosh, that did not go well at all."
I rolled on to my back and pulled my legs to me (as soon as I could breath again that is, that took a second or two) and this is what I saw. Well roughly what I saw, but I had less bruising more bleeding.

Usually there is and older guy sitting in a chair smoking a cigarette and yelling at his bull dog in the house on the corner where I fell. Had he been there, I would have asked him to call Ryan to come drag me out of the road and drive me home. The guy was gone today of all days though (no bulldog either) so I had to pick myself off (I won't lie, I was crying a little) and drag myself home.

Actually, the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" theme song came on just as I got to my feet and I realized Buffy would never be held back by a skinned knee so I finished my run. Then I went home and I have been generally whining about it all day.

Ok now I know if you are a boy this is no big deal cause you do this showing off for each other all the time. But as I told Ryan, I AM A GIRL!!!!

This should not happen to the more delicate sex.