Empty Camera!!!

It's been a few weeks since I emptied my camera :)

TW had an abscessed tooth that needed to be removed.   He thought that the treasure box the dental office put his tooth is was really cool!  He also likes the spacer that they installed until his grown up tooth comes through!

We have been studying Egypt all year, but just got to King Tut.  He has really enjoyed King Tut!

Last Monday (almost 2 weeks ago), our chickens arrived.  We got 11 total... 3 blue cochins (2 girls, 1 rooster!), 2 brahmas, 2 barred rocks, 2 rhode island reds, and 2 buff orpingtons ;)  We have been amazed at how quickly they are growing... and they're pretty fun to watch.  You can see that my treadmill is right behind the "brooder", so I get to watch them when I walk!

J made a really big bon fire one evening.  Smaug saw the bigger boys carting sticks to the fire and tried joining them by carrying whatever he could find and throwing it in the general direction of the fire.  He started off several feet away, and then kept getting braver and braver, I had to cut him off eventually :)

Since the boys' bedroom has two french doors that face the toy room, which has two french doors that face the hallway by the back door, curtains became a necessity.  That, or sneaking around in the dark first thing in the morning so I didn't wake anyone.  I found some rocket ship fabric :)  The boys have since broken the rods a few times... 

This picture is for Grandpa Mac.  TW picked the baggie of black berries that are dead center. He wants to save enough to make black berry  jam!

The house has had many tweaks since I last wrote.   I took this picture after spending several hours wiping down walls, and floor boards, and cupboards.  It's still a mess, but cleaner.

I got the rest of the wallpaper down in here (and we put up another towel bar).  The wallpaper is still up in the toilet room, but I'll get to that later!

Our dryer vent was cleaned out (all that water came out of the vent).  And then rerouted.  We have to put a cap on this old vent, but it's covered in septic water right now (again).  And, the vent already came undone in the attic, which J discovered while moving a junction box for my new oven (which works!!!), sorry I forgot to take a picture of that.

I got the dark wallpaper down in the kids bathroom, and J has gotten half the tiles up :)

And, just this morning we got the leaf-on-top, pink-on-bottom two layers of wallpaper down in the school room.

In other News:  Our toilet wouldn't flush this morning.  J started digging a trench in the pouring down rain, while trying to find if it was a clog.  It turns out our brand new septic pump is not working and we are currently waiting on the repair man... hopefully he won't charge us anything since it's his pump that broke... cross your fingers!!!