Around the house.....

I have not been spending too much time outside these past few weeks.  Even in the morning and evening when it's almost pleasant the mosquitoes try to fly away with you.  Aside from quick walks around the neighborhood, I get outside time here, at the clothesline. 

 Almost every morning and late afternoon you can find a member of my family here(usually me, sometimes Siler and Parrish help too) .  I love having a clothesline.  It is often the first thing I put up when I move to a new house.  

A friend asked lately if I like using cloth diapers.  I love it.  The few times I've used disposables we've had blow outs.  I don't know if it was coincidence but if not then we'll have a lot of blow outs in Utah because I'm not taking the cloth on that trip.  I don't think that cloth is any harder to use than disposable, especially these days that we have so many cloth options.  I also am really lucky because all of the diapers that I have were lent to me so Parrish and I save a lot of money on diapers.  That's a pretty big motivator to make it work.  We do a load of diapers every third day so two loads a week.  Not a big deal really.  We make a pile of diapers during the day and Parrish washes them out at night.  We have a really fancy sprayer hooked to our toilet that helps that process (it came with the diapers!) I figure we wash diapers out instead of going to the trash can.  We are fortunate to have a really laid back baby and a mamma that works very part time...  

Lately, when I'm out at the clothesline this guy or(gal) is nearby.            



 I hear it in a tree in the neighbors backyard and see it flying around.  It sounds a little like the night hawks we used to hear in  Vermillion,SD.  It's a Mississippi Kite and I think the one that I hear is a baby. This one has the markings of a juvenile so maybe it's the only one I see.  I  don't know but I think it's pretty cool.  Parrish and I were on a walk a few mornings ago, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and watched the kite catch a dragonfly.  I was sad it wasn't eating the mosquitoes!

Siler wanted to get a better look.....we let her out of the mosquito netting only briefly!

My mom and dad have both come to visit recently.....here are some pictures from those events...

bath time with grandma.....

Playing cribbage with Grandad and Dad.....She'll get her real cribbage skills from Grandad Waters though!

(Sorry Parrish, I have to give a shout out to the grandparents on the blog.....we all know you are the best babe!)

Siler and I are going on our first girls only (and the dogs) road trip.

Hopefully I'll take lots of photos now that I got a Kodak Playsport camera.  (Thanks Lisa King for schooling me on the way of getting photos when you only have one hand and you are sitting in a river!)