So, Travis and I have a plan of working outside today. The weather is cooperating for the most part and we hope to get our new black shutters up and dig up the front walkway garden area and start getting it ready for some new plants. I really like hostas, so we are going to get some of those and I’m not sure yet if I’ll add flowers or a few bushes. I’d love to have some azaleas or rose bushes in front of the other bedroom windows, but that’s not the priority now. Right now we want to work on the walkway and get our new shutters and sconces up. Then we will have to paint the front door. Travis did get a new lawn mower and he really likes it. Its a self propelled push mower but as he says he thinks its better for our yard because our yard gets saturated so easily every time it rains. Poor Anya is really wanting to get on her swingset but its still too muddy to get out there just yet. Hopefully, May will bring some drier weather around here.
In other news, Arwen is really trying to scoot around. She’s rolling over all the time now and has figured out how to get her knees under her but not push up with her arms just yet. She’s really trying to catch up to her sister. Travis told Anya last night that pretty soon Arwen was going to be able to take a bath with her and Travis asked her if she liked that idea. And Anya got a big ole grin on her face and said “Yeah Daddy, I like that!” These two are going to be good sisters I think. Of course, when they hit teenage years we might start hearing fights over outfits but right now they really love each other. Maybe I should video them more now and then when they argue later on as teenagers I make them sit down and watch the videos everytime they argue! I wonder if that would be a good punishment?
I got my business license this week for Almand Photography…now I just need the business! I am starting to do more photos for the animal shelter and Travis is working on my website. Hopefully it will be done by the end of the month.
Chance is doing good too. He loves his little girls. Everytime we come home and I open the garage door from the house he runs out to the car and checks both sides for Arwen and Anya to make sure they are there and they are okay. And the other day little Arwen got mad on her playmat because she rolled over and couldn’t get her hands turned the right way. Chance always lays right beside her when she’s on the floor and when she started getting frustrated, Chance came running to the back bedroom where I was brushing my hair and looked at me like “Don’t you hear the baby…come help the baby…” He really does seem to love these girls. And I can’t tell you how much I love this dog.
In the adventures of our squirrels Starbuck and Sawyer, they have discovered they love cheerios. Anya likes to throw them in the backyard for them and Sawyer is quite brave. I set the yellow bowl the cheerios are in on the back porch one day this week and he was about a foot away from coming up to it when Anya comes running out saying “Hi Sawyer!” We can actually tell the difference between them now. Sawyer is all gray, and Starbuck has a brown bushier tail. I really like my squirrels and Anya got excited this past week because she saw her first Blue Jay. And that’s what she named him…”Blue Jay.”