Lately

We have finally hung a clothes line maybe a bit late but better late then never. We are hanging clothes out now and I can't even express how happy I am. I feel so fulfilled to hang laundry see it drying in the breeze and know I'm saving money with every load hung. 

Cowboys and cowgirls have been coming and going building forts and such. The bigs have hung a rope swing adding a board making it easier on bums. There has been circus acts ~ juggling and balancing. We are milking both goats twice a day now getting a little over a half gallon a day. All of the sudden just a day apart both the twin babies have died ~ no marks no tracks...just dead. We are sad and really just don't know what happened. 

There has been a pause on working on the cottage. We have talked it over and decided what is best is to finish out a bit more of where we are. We were hoping to be in by fall, or maybe that was just my hopes anyhow we are not going to be. Sometimes things just don't go as planned and sometimes you have to step back, evaluate what is important, and just take one day at a time. Relationships and daddy being home is a precious thing that you can never get back. Houses are just houses and we'll get there one day. but today we are slowing down and focusing. 

Can you believe the leaves are starting to change. The season is shifting right before my very eyes. Oh where is time going. My baby is growing by leaps and bounds and there's not a thing I can do about it. My heart aches for time to slow down. 

He is standing on his own now going up down up down, cruising when he reaches a piece of furniture but not bothered to just crawl sometimes on his hands and knees, sometimes on his hands and feet like a little monkey.  He is working on sippy cups not figuring out how to suck with the stopper in yet choking without it, so we are having to use a bottle for him to actually drink and be satisfied. I'm not thrilled with this as I do not want him weaned to a bottle ~ so we practice.

Don't drain the pool I hear off and on now for the last couple weeks, we're growing frogs!  I've been informed that tadpoles eat algae so the water stays clear, oh and mosquitoe eggs so that won't be a problem. Well folks here you have it a very large science experiment ~ watching tadpoles turn into frogs...in the backyard. Look that one has legs!  These are very exciting days for a couple certain little boys and big brothers who explain the process to them as we go.
JM