Derby Celebrates Derby days every June, so we joined the party. We went to the parade on Friday. Lucas and James loved it. There was way too much candy so the boys were both thrilled. Then we went to the carnival. I need to remember to avoid driving by it if I don't want to hear about it every ten minutes until Lucas gets to ride. He gets really excited and focused on things and then shares his thoughts with everyone. It is cute unless unless I'm exhausted. So his dreams came true, and James was introduced to carnival rides for the first time.

James was stuck in the stroller because I wanted to run out into the street.

Bunk Beds!

James's crib got recalled so we decided to buy bunkbeds instead, boy were they both REALLY happy. I am surprised they slept at all.

I was watering picking my raspberry bushes the other day and heard really loud breathing. At first I thought it was somebody, but I looked around and there wasn't another person. I thought oh no, snake. Nope, there was a mother mallard duck that decided to build a nest underneath my loaded raspberry bush. We were thinking of kicking her out, but she stayed there so much of the time. we waited for her to move to look at the nest, Adam couldn't see any eggs so I was going to move it, but I found two eggs hidden underneath some debris. Luckily we didn't bother her too much and she came back to take care of them. I asked Lucas what we should name her and he came up with Goop. So here is goop the duck, the closest thing my kids will probably ever have to a pet. I don't mind sharing a few raspberries nad strawberries with her, but we won't be feeding her house food, we don't want to make her depend on us. It has been fun for us to check up on her. We are waiting for little ducklings now.

Some of our favorite friend surprised us with a visit from Las Vegas, it was so much fun to have them for 10 days, and it was kinda hard not to pester them every second because we could handle having them around ALL the time. (Hint hint Erin) Lucas and Raegan are close friends, and Lucas really respects Rae, he cried when she left and asks to look at photos and visit them. When they got here he kept asking her if she remembered him. It was cute.

Lucas was so scared of the Peacock, when it opened it's wings he started to shake and tried to get away. I felt kinda badly for him, but it appears he has no permanent emotional scars.

Lucas has a history of being shy. While we were swimming he was tasked with asking Raegan for a snack. He was so nervous about it. He would stand close to me and tell me he was thinking about it and look very serious, then he would turn and walk up to Rae and ask me what he was supposed to say, then get scared and come back to me and tell me he was thinking about it, they got up to Raegan only to chicken out and come back to me to "think about it" eventually the snacks were dwindling and I told him he needed to hurry or he was going to miss out. He was brave and asked for some, but only very quietly. Ahhhhhhhh, it cracks me up when he will and won't be brave.

One day Raegan's dress got dirty and she was really stressing out so I offered her to wear one that I had when I was little, well it wasn't very cute, so I offered to make her one. We sat down and sketched what she wanted it to look like and I went to work. A few hours later she had this. I was happy it ended up fitting.

I miss them already, but am so happy to have had them here for a little while.