Bubbles

Meant to document an incident yesterday. ...first day of spring break. The four of us went to the swampy evergreen fields in a lame attempt for  Brian and charlie to practice hitting while I study and half way entertain izzy while he sits in the wagon . It was pretty wet. Didn't last long. Charlie was too distracted by sloppy wet shoes.
We then, minus brian, went to the wildlife refuge and spent maybe a couple hours there. Both boys crashed pretty hard. They fell asleep on our way home. Isaiah didn't wake up for hours. Charlie briefly woke then was back to sleep by seven. Maybe around 8? I decided to put diapers on..however, i must have seen something shiny because I didn't get to charlie in time. He was standing facing a side table in a corner looking like he was at a urnal. A fleeting thought was he was really peeing (doh!).no way. I walked over to him as he and I made eye contact and he was looking right through me......Oh NO!!! I jumped over to him and tried to direct him to the bathroom. Totally too late. He filled my cinnamon flavored pine cone filled basket with potty. OH yes he did....Totally sleepwalking. 
Great....grandpa barge has a few...thank goodness ONLY a few stories about Brian sleep walking. Let's hope this doesn't become a normalcy! 

On a more somber note...grandpa Edwards (my grandpa) was admitted last week to the hospital with pneumonia and a new diagnosis of lung cancer. A biopsy was taken today. So we will know hopefully by the end of the week more details. So, prayers please for the whole family I guess! 

steigerwald lake national wildlife refuge walk

right off the bat as we were getting ourselves ready for the hike, we saw three eagles, a red tail, a harris hawk, and a buzzard! all before we even began walking!

there is a quote etched into one of the rocks at this stop that says "let nature be your teacher." you can see mt hood in the distance to your left. 

a little less enthused?! poor guy. he got into it pretty quick though.

cool door. says you can't enter though. "do not disturb. oct 1 to april 30" (migration stop for birds)  lots of geese and ducks. 

apparently this is the 'cool kids' log.

doesn't this look like a soldier peeking up from the water?!  (or a creepy guy!?)

charlie was quick to complain of his legs hurting...was a quick "hike" lunch on the rock here. 

i can't get a good redwing blackbird picture to save my life!

synchronized butt wigglin!

got a little lunch in him and he perked up for a few minutes anyway.

izzy has the camera

they had man made art speckled around too. this bug is inside a hollow tree! look at the size of it! that is my finger!

Thank you autumn for the gigantic blue frosting and sprinkle filled cupcake!!

i think we got the blog fixed. you were only seeing the left side of the pictures...got rid of some other widgets, including music, but that hasn't worked in a while i think! you can also post comments now, i think. try it.

Even his new puppy has a broken leg! Today, we trekked to toys r us for a return. And isaiah had 10 dollars from the ruens and ten from the barges from valentine's day...Came home with this German Shepard puppy and guess what else...legos!! In fact, he put it together all by himself (mostly)..He is so proud!

Spent 640 dollars this morning on books for this term! Geez!!

Thank you dear ones who've sent packages and cards for the boys. We love you all. Hoping to get thank you cards out this weeekend:)