Welcome to the Family Sorbet

Today we went to Pet's Mart and picked out a new fish friend for Spaz.  Isaac was so excited.  He held the bag the whole way home.  

She is a very pretty fish.  She is dark orange, black, and white.  The guy at pet's Mart said that she won't necessarily keep the black, so we shall see.  We decided to call her Sorbet.

So far, Spaz and Sorbet seem to be getting along.  Feeding time was a little competitive, but hopefully, once they get use to each other that will calm down.  They are definitely easy to tell apart and even if Sorbet does loose the black we will still be able to tell who is who.

Happy Easter

Our Easter started out by going to church as a whole family. It is very rare for Steven to come and I really enjoy when he does. My church is rather large, so they have 3 different masses going on in three different locations. We choose the children's mass, like I did last year. Last year, we were in and done in 30 minutes. I have never been to an Easter mass that short before. This year, it lasted 45 minutes. Steven had to take Andrew out about halfway through, but Isaac did really well the whole time. On the way home we at lunch at Torchy's Tacos and then home for naps. Once they were up, they got their baskets and we had an egg hunt in the backyard. I made a nice dinner of ham and pineapple, with green bean casserole, and crescent rolls. It was a great day!

Isaac got a bubble bucket, sidewalk chalk, and a kite. Andrew got a kite and a plush house with animals that make sounds inside. There was no wind today, so we could take the kites.

Egg hunt in the backyard.

He found a way to make jelly beans messy. :)

My Boys!

Andrew's face here makes me laugh.

He loves his bubble bucket!

Carpet and Cats

During Christmas the boys and I were gone for 3 weeks visiting family. For work purposes Steven had to stay home. For whatever reason the cat(s) decided to start peeing under the window in the playroom. I have spent the last three months trying to make that room (and our whole house for that matter) not smell like a giant litter box. I finally gave up and called the professionals. They came last Wednesday and the carpets look great now. There is still a little bit of an odor, but you only notice it when you are sitting in the playroom, so the carpet cleaning was mostly a success.

Since the cats spend the majority of of the day under our bed we decided that we were not going to put it back on the frame. This way Malcolm cannot throw up under it anymore and they will be forced to be out more. So far, it is working out pretty good. Malcolm has been more tolerant of the boys petting him, which they just love. River still won't let the boys pet her, but she is more social with Steven and myself.

Since the mattress and box springs are on the floor it looks like we are in college again. We plan to get a whole bedroom set sometime in the near future. When we do, we are more than likely going to get a platform bed, which will be nice.

Lizards

When I was putting stuff into the shed the other day, Isaac kept asking "What is this?" I looked and it was a green lizard about six inches long. We have tons of geckos here, but I have never seen anything like this before. A few minutes later, a smaller brown one showed up. Every time they got near each other they would make this noise and this pink thing would puff out from their necks. I put a post on Facebook and everybody said they are Green Anoles. I did some research and based on what we saw, they were courting. I am going to keep my eye out for little baby anoles. I also found out that they eat cockroaches. We have plenty of them around here and they totally gross me out. I about did a happy dance when I read this information.