Creatures of Habit
I am speaking of children. Each morning as Derek prepares to ride off to work on his bike, Ryan and Katie convince him to first go over to the grass to look for snails with them.
It is usually the same, we find a few, and Ryan picks them up and shows us. For the fat ones Derek exclaims, "That one is Jabba" (Star Wars) and then Ryan puts them back and we go inside and wave goodbye to Derek through the window.
The kids always want to stay outside but I am rarely in anything besides my sweatpants that I slept in the night before and my hair is ALWAYS a frizzy mess, so I don't like to stay out there like that. Recently, I was able to shower and get ready before Derek left, so we stayed outside and had a snail race. Such a thing is probably nice and boring to all but a 3 year old boy.
We lined them up for the race and Katie was in such a bad mood that in her crying fit, I think she killed about 3 of them. darn it! The snail race was a riveting scene, believe me. *yawn*
There were 9 snails in the race. If the slideshow works for you, try and guess who was the winner. If it doesn't work, you aren't missing much. ;) Still, you can try this link.
I am speaking of children. Each morning as Derek prepares to ride off to work on his bike, Ryan and Katie convince him to first go over to the grass to look for snails with them.
7 comments:
that spotty slimy trail they leave behind is hilarious. Especially the second to last picture - it almost looks like you drew them on!
It is SO obvious that 8 is going to win right from the start. He's the only one focused on the goal.
Everyone else is like in Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World when they're all running around the park looking for the Big W.
Fabulous.
The only races we could have around here are dead mouse races (that's all that shows up on our porch thanks to Crookshanks...but then luckily once she's shown off she takes them somewhere else and eats them...).
Hey--I guess we could have chicken races...must think on that more.
It was totally MMMMW. Some of those things just didn't have a CLUE! It was hard to just get them to line up. They were all stuck on the sidewalk so I had to pry them off one at a time (without killing them) and place them right in the line. At one point I looked over and about 4 of them were all piggy backed on top of each other. As you can tell, 8 had a little head start.
Did you notice that he totally had a cracked shell? I had to leave him with the head start or else it might have squashed him.
Oh, this is boring conversation. We are talking about SNAILS for crying out loud.
Jennifer - forget that we are looking at a snail race. I bet that was really exciting and neat for Ryan - what a super mom you are. But I want to talk about the whole photobucket thing that showed us something in a totally new way. That was super fun! You guys are amazing on the computer. Thanks for the fun!
Right after your post we noticed snails around our apartment too! They are such funny creatures and Emma just loved pointing out the big daddy snails and the little baby snails.
I know I have no right to ask this, considering I haven't touched my blog, but when will we see a new post fron ya Jen? Hahaha!
Oh STOP Kim! Did you harrass Gina? I've posted more recently than she has. :)
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