On the way out to the bus stop this morning we met with a visitor in our driveway...(he was actually in the pan that I had put outside last night b/c I had burnt sausages & it was smoking up the house...eating leftover bits of gross grease) anyway...I snapped a pic with my cell phone (which I have no way of getting it off now) and we headed off to the bus stop. Owen was sad when we got back & the turtle was no longer in the pan...so we went on a turtle hunt & found him...Owen was fascinated, we followed him around a little bit...& Owen thought it was great when it crawled over his shoe. Eventually the turtle went and hid in the bushes around a tree & we fed it a couple cherry tomatoes...which it loved & we watched it eat for a little bit...Now to convince him it's not a pet...
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On a side note we had another visitor...& I have to document the story, so I can embarrass some kids later in life :D
On Monday..neighbor kids are over playing, when Hailey comes SCREAMING & crying into the house "I don't want my brother to die!!!" I run out of the house, thinking that he has been bit by a rattle snake or something tragic. I find Owen with his pants around his ankles and everyone (including the neighbor kids) pointing at his business & telling me there is a tick (in a very bad place)...apparently Owen can't take the time (or has the modesty) to come inside to use the bathroom...
I bring him inside & try to get it out...Hailey is still freaking out (even though I had reassured her about a thousand times that he was going to be okay). In the end I couldn't get it out, and he made a trip with dad to ready care (which of course, they got it out with no problem)...He will have a check up with his doctor, but he is fine...and Hailey is still a little freaked out about ticks. :D
3 comments:
Are you guys still in school? When do they get out? Cute turtle! I get freaked out about ticks also because one year while visiting family in VA my Dad found a tick on the back of my ear. I freaked out and asked if I was going to be okay. He said, "We'll know in the morning.". I cried myself to sleep wondering if that was going to be my last night. LOL! My Dad feels really bad about that now. =)
I love the turtle! I'm like Owen, I'd like to keep it as a pet. :)
It's so funny you mention ticks. Last week the kids and I spent a lot of time on youtube looking up videos of ticks because Megan thought she had one on her leg, (it was only a dried scab)and was paranoid. I'm glad you guys got it out. They are nasty little things.
Kara....we don't get out of school until the 17th and go back Aug. 25th...crazy short summer...it stinks :(
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