Noah has gotten to the wonderful habit of using just one word to where most of us would use an entire sentence. Like "Pete" and "Repeat," Jared and I copy his one word and translate it into the appropriate sentence. Its a gift really...others look at us and wonder how we are so adept at this highly skilled translation process but I digress, there is a story with this.....
About a month ago my mom visited us and when the kids wrestled through her suitcase, they were delighted that she had come baring gifts. 10 frogs for Noah and 10 snakes for Preston. So for the last 4 weeks I have been stepping on them, finding them in the toilet, in their beds, in MY bed and so on.
Well, about a week ago Noah was toting around one of Preston's snakes. We'd just gotten out of the car, when Noah calmly said "Snake." This is where my highly trained skills in translation plummeted. I thought he meant he had dropped his snake, so like any good mother I bent down to pick it up. To say I was surprised, would be lying, I full-on screamed like a third grader when it struck out and tried to bite me. In case you are confused, Noah was still holding his little rubber snake and I was trying to hold the real one. So here is our newest addition of wildlife we find in our yard. Mountian lions, wolves, foxes, deer, raccoons, and now snakes. Welcome to Sun Valley
If you're worried that I'm a tad too close, our camera zoomed to 12x for this baby.
Isn't he cute as he tries to climb up our garage?
