Catching frogs

Today we went to my parents house to catch frogs in their pond and visit our cat (and see my parents too!).

It was super muggy out and just miserable, but the kids still had a good time. Andrew threw sticks in the pond, AJ fished them out. I caught frogs, AJ just looked at them, Andrew picked them up and threw them back in the pond. Good times.

Jax is sure getting big. I really miss having him at our house, but we are really lucky that my parents wanted him and live so close, so we still get to visit often.

Putting fish in the pond

My parents had their pond dug out to be bigger last fall, and they've been planting things in and around it, and decided to put fish in as well.

The boys and I picked up 250 goldfish from the local pet store after our park playdate, and took them over to let them free into the pond.















This is some kind of grosbeak that landed on my parents' deck while we were there.





This is a pawprint we found in the mud, possibly a possum or baby raccoon. We found a much bigger print nearby that was definitely raccon, but my camera batteries chose that minute to die, so no pictures :(

Unblocked finally

So apparently I was under suspicion for being a spam-blogger.....I don't know what that means but I was locked out for 2 days. All is well now, I'm up and running and I have pictures from this weekend.

I took the boys over to my parents house to catch tadpoles in the pond. We used a skimmer net and caught several, and then AJ made "fishing poles" out of sticks, string, and paper clips. He made one for himself and one for Andrew, and they headed back out to try to catch some fish (there are not fish in the pond yet).

This first photo is of AJ holding his kitty Jax, we had to send Jax to my parent's house to live because Andrew is very allergic to cats and was really sick until we found out the source. Luckily, Grandma and Grandpa only live about 15 minutes away so we visit often, and Jax is spoiled rotten there :)