"How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she.
Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?"
-Aileen Fisher
To help curb our garden’s aphid infestation and provide some educational fun for the kids, we decided to combat our pests with ladybugs instead of chemicals. A few days after ordering, 1500 ladybugs showed up on our doorstep. They were released into the garden to great fanfare from the kiddos, and we now have a swarm of ladybugs flying everywhere.
As the new arrival’s delivery date nears, it was time to dig into the attic this weekend to get all the baby stuff down. It was mostly successful, but when we heard some strange noises coming from the boxes we found this:
While Ashlyn regressed 4 years, James made yet one more step towards being a big kid by giving up his crib and sleeping on a mattress bed. We weren’t sure if he was going to take to it so Mom bought some Elmo sheets (his favorite) and made up a bed on the floor. Luckily, he did. Well, sort of. He still feels that sleep is highly over-rated, so he fussed for a bit as usual. But when he was done fussing, he crawled in bed, played for a few minutes, and went to sleep. Now we can get him a real bed and move the crib into the baby’s room.
Kids are great on summer rainy days. They don’t have the aversion to getting wet like adults, so all you have to do is open the door and the kids are off running through the grass and rain.
Next week James turns 2!