4 years later

drama

trying to recreate the drama :)

Lucille

This is a post from Sydney.

This is Lucille eating crickets.  She ate 24 today.  It's fun to watch her chase them around her cage sometimes.   She is really fast. 

We let her eat them on the floor today for this video.   I was afraid the crickets would get away but she got them all.

Sometimes when we feed her these big worms she will bite them in half and she won't get it all in her mouth and the head falls on the sand and it will keep moving around.    It's so gross.

She's about 12 inches long now and should be fully grown.

Lucille smiling for the camera.   Her spikes actually feel  kind of rubbery.

A picture of her Popeye arms.  And a close up of her ear.

A picture of her full belly

edited to add : we still have our roaches colony. Keeping them warm...especially this month isn't helping them breed super well. Plus Lucille is a pig. So we alternate between the crickets and the roaches.

 Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Enlisting Help

Syd came home from school yesterday and said, "umm, mom, I noticed that there were fresh vacuum marks in the carpet."
I told her that it was Spencer who had vacuumed the floors...Spencer sat next to me beaming..Syd blew out dramatically and said, "oh good.  I thought you had vacuumed and was going to say, oh no, your surgery"
I love that my kids help and look out for me.

Welcome to the family Emeli

That's Emeli with an I/eye.  :)  ha ha ha ha

This is not....I repeat NOT my dermoid cyst.
I had this baby announcement made up to give my doctor, who has yet to get a redheaded dermoid, after surgery.    Can you even stand it.
I think she has my smile.
I'm now off to recover from major surgery.  
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.   I hope to sleep through the New Year.  :)

He works hard for his body

and he counts and does his sit ups like his mama.
I love how Sadie stands over him.  My kids do the same thing to me :)

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