OK everyone.  I found the blogging software again.  Well, not really.  I just found a few minutes to try and get caught up.  For those that don't yet know, we have moved.  Contact us if you need to new address.  The moving explains most of why there have not been any posts lately.  Just too many other things to do.  We've also been getting ready for opening our daycare, so that includes lots of other hoops with the state to go through.

Grandma Judy came out for a week to help us out, and my friend Randy was also in town, and he helped a lot too.

So besides that, what have we been up to?  I went on a camping trip with a couple of my best friends.  It was good, albeit a short trip.  I can send you pictures if you want as well, but I'm not going to put them up here, as I try to keep this mostly about the kids.

David also had a recheck hearing exam, and it turns out his hearing is fine.  He's just very selective at times.

Isabelle also had an eye exam, following her wellness check.  It turns out she has a lazy eye, and she's almost exclusively using her right eye to see things.  So she now has a pair of very nice polycarbonate scratch resistant sparkling red glasses to force her to use her left eye, before her brain just starts to ignore it all the time.  We also have the option to put a patch on her right eye, and force her to use the left, but we won't do anything drastic like that yet.  Although I think she might like being a pirate all day.  We have a recheck with her ophthalmologist at the end of the month to see how her vision is improving with the glasses, then we'll decide the next step.

We had Grandma Jeanne, Aunt Susie, Uncle Greg, and Aunt Joani come up for a Mother's Day BBQ.  It was nice, except for the 100 degree temp!

Julie and I just made a huge chalk board for the back yard, which the kids tend to ignore.

We have two cherry trees in the back yard, which is nice to get that fresh fruit.  Unfortunately, David likes to swallow the pits, so we have to be pretty attentive to low hanging fruit.

We also live very near the edge of town, which I think is great.  We can walk about 100 meters and be at the city limits.  And the city has done a really nice thing in that they have built a greenbelt the encircles this part of town, so we go for 'nature walks' with the kids and they can see lots of wild animals, mostly birds, and pretend they are in the deep dark jungle, a la The Jungle Book.

"Look David!" says Isabelle, "There's Bagheera and Mowgli!"

As an aside, I hope David isn't constantly disappointed, because he can't see the things in Isabelle's imagination when she says things like that.

Yesterday they got to see their first real live snake in the wild.  Julie spotted a gopher snake going into a gopher hole, and the kids were so excited to get up close to see it's tail.  I held onto it so they could pet it a little, but it had to get into that hole, either to escape us, or get dinner.  I've also seen a gaggle of turkeys (one tom, and maybe 8 hens) in the vicinity, but I see them early in the morning, and the kids haven't seen them yet when we all go out in the afternoon.