call me ms. excitement

busy holiday weekend. we found the lost snake friday afternoon under a laundry pile in the basement. my dad, sister, and niece came down to visit for the weekend. jay had to go in on saturday. while he was at work we thought we would all go walk on-campus and feed the ducks at the red cedar and walk around the garden and frog pond by the library. long story short one of my twin boys walks straight into the frog pond and my dad tries to reach in to grab him but the pond is much deeper than anyone thought and he had to go in the pond himself and fetch him out. both came out soaking wet but all safe. very scary at the moment, funny after we all calmed down, and then very scary again upon reflection that those could have been one of those horrible accidents that doesn't end up with the happy ending we had.

on sunday we all drove to ann arbor and went to the children's hands-on museum. it had a nice toddler section with a water play room. it was nice and a good way to spend a couple of hours.

http://www.aahaom.org

we walked around ann arbor, had lunch at the brown jug, and walked around the quad. it was a beautiful day.

the older kids got back from their cottage where they had spent the weekend with some aunts, uncles, and tons of cousins. my son came back with two newts and we had to go out and buy a new small tank. we now have two snakes and two newts. i much prefer reptiles and amphibians to rodents. we currently have a no rodent rule in the house. later on monday night we went to my ex-husband's house and grilled steaks and brats.

i am trying to finish ann patchett's THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT. i started reading it about a month ago and got about 3/4's into it and then put it down and have been trying to finish it since. it is good not great.

i went to drive my son to school today at about 8:15 and the police were across the street and told us to get back in the house. our whole street was blocked off the the SWAT team was here. we stayed in the house for about an hour and then i drove him to school. the rumour on the street is that the old guy in the corner house committed suicide but they thought maybe there was some shady business.

i told you it has been a busy last several days.