The ‘work crew’ (Matt, Pop) are drilling with a really LOUD jackhammer under the house. More specifically, right under where Lucy is taking a nap. It seems that if it is not too crazy loud when she is falling asleep, then she can sleep through this really loud stuff! I am flabbergasted and oh so praising the Lord right now. I know this could change at any time – but I’m just so grateful for the nap she got amidst some MAJOR noise.

Last week I took the kids and Yaya to the SB Zoo. It was a really great day. Max has been studying animal movement, etc in our lessons so he was shouting out all the time, “Look Mom!” Lucy was much more interested in the animals than he was at her age – and she was saying, “Ot-ter” for both the otters and the sea lion (since the sea lion looks like a big otter!). One of the funniest parts was when Sylvia and I fed the giraffes – a hysterically funny thing for me and a fairly gross thing for her. The giraffes come up to this special landing and you feed them what looks like large kibble. I wish I had gotten a picture of the tongue – they stick their tongues out about a FOOT long and wrap it around your entire hand. It was very slimy and I laughed the whole time. Max didn’t want to try it (he’s just not that adventurous with large mammals). So whenever you come to visit us – we’ll take you to the zoo! 🙂