Friday, March 2, 2018

Feb. pets, play date, Grace overnight, Luna haircut

 It's time for another random picture post. 

During the Super Bowl I got bored so I started taking pictures of me and Evie with the pets. The cat was passed out on someone nearly half the game.



Evie's turn with the lump. Also, fun fact, she's wearing my glasses since we hadn't got her new ones yet.




And that reminds me, after Evie and Noah got glasses, we went down to Who's Toy Shop to hang out. All the kids were making up plays with this little puppet stage. They were all adorable, but here is Evie's.



The following day, Monday February 5th, during the middle of school, the dog and cat sat next to me like this...



I believe one of the boys plopped the cat down next to me and then Luna joined us, as she often does. We found her head placement amusing. Can't get too much cat crotch smell. Ha! 



For several weeks now we've been taking Evie's 4H BB gun home for her to practice with. Just this last week she scored just enough to go to state (250 out of a possible 400). The rule is that the boys can only be down there to watch if they stay on the guest bed and wear sunglasses.



On Wednesday we had Abigail and Moses over for a play date.



Evie and Abigail added to Evie's snow cakes that she had begun a few days before. They eventually melted into little ice mounds, were snowed over twice, and then daddy finally scraped them off the deck. I think they're finally gone.



Moses and the boys jumping and chucking ice chunks, aka snow balls, at each other.  



By Friday the 9th that week Evie spiked a fever and was down for the count. We had planned a sleepover for Grace the weekend before that had to be moved to this weekend and didn't really want to move it again. Evie wasn't fevering by Saturday night so we let Grace come and spend the night, but not sleep in the same bed.



Of course by Saturday Ezra had a fever... We found on the following Tuesday when Samuel got sick, that they had all had influenza B and we didn't know it! Samuel was much, much worse than Evie and  Ezra so thankfully Grace never got sick. 



We also gave Luna a bath that night, which was coincidentally the beginning of the Winter Olympics in South Korea. Luna's hair was nearly four inches long and no matter how careful we were with washing and brushing her, she kept getting these thicks knotted matts in her fur. You can see on on her right shoulder. 



Luna hadn't had a haircut since the very end of July and was way overdue for one. Terry had started calling her a sheep because of the way her hair parted along her shoulders due to the curls. I looked up sheep pictures and she really did have a coat similar to their fleece. But I loved her fluff!



 It was a lot of work though and that following weekend, after more matts surfaced as a result of a careful bath, I cut all her fur off. She looks so poodle-y!



I scissored all her fur off instead of using the razor as I have always done previously, so that's why she looks uneven. It's very uneven! But at least we have no more matts or piles of Luna fluff everywhere. 



Terry said he much prefers her to look this way. When she's long and she looks like a sheep he thinks she's as dumb as sheep, though of course she isn't. He just doesn't like sheep since they had some when they were young and they were unbelievably difficult. 



Samuel and Ezra put on the cat the remains of Luna's rabbit's head. Hilarious. 



One more photo of Luna's haircut from this last week when both pets joined us for Samuel's reading lesson.

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