Spa day for the boys

In a desperate search for something to keep the boys busy and keep their attention for more than 5 minutes - we had a "spa day". They got their finger and toe nails clipped and filed - then some nail polish.

Nathan sat still for his toes to be done with real blue nail polish, but Daniel insisted on painting his OWN toes... so I was not about to have nail polish all over the house so I gave him some water colour paint instead and let him have at it!

Results were interesting to say the least!

Boys and a little baby gecko

The boys found the dried body of a super tiny little gecko (maybe 1.5in long) - baked into the deck, but being boys they had to check it out and investigate thoroughly.

It had no eyeballs anymore so Nathan said that it had "flung its eyeballs out of its head" because he knew that they could fling their tails off when they are trying to escape predation (the tail wiggles, the body remains still, and it creates a distraction for the predator to go after the tail... then it can get away and grow a new tail)... unfortunately he knew this from experience after playing a bit too roughly with a gecko one day :(.

Daniel kept saying "walk, walk" and then would say sadly "dead, dead".

Munkittrick visit - January

Kelly and Patty Munkittrick, from Quispamsis NB, were our next wonderful guests in January.

Patty helped me keep the boys busy each day (nice for me!) and they loved every minute of the extra attention.



We took a trip down to Key West - I had never been yet so it was good to finally see what was down there. The boys were pretty good - though by the afternoon they started going downhill so Kelly started offering them for sale to folks walking by on the street - the highest bid was $5. Interesting town - and we all stood at the most southern point of the continental US (though we could see more land past us which seemed odd ?).




Trip with Patty, myself, and the boys to Crane Point where they saw lots of local flora and fauna and got to dress up like pirates in one of the park's features.



Kelly and Steve went fishing a few times - I don't have the pics yet (on Kelly's camera) but I will post some when I get them (big catches were sailfish, bull dolphin (mahi mahi), king mackerel, and more that I can't remember).

Artsy shot - Kelly walking on the beach to search for shells at sunrise.

Boys hugging - Awwwwww....

Rare, rare moment of the boys being nice and cuddly with one another. They got matching PJs when I went to an outlet to find warmer pajamas when the weather got cold!

Cold snap - iguanas falling out of trees

I heard about iguanas falling out of trees when they air temperatures get around 5C - they go into a suspended animation, and then can fall out of the tree they are in....

So when BLee found a motionless iguana we figured it would be gone by morning when it warmed up,... but it was still there, guess the tree was too high, or he bonked his head on the way down :(.

Time to catch up on posts - BLee visit

We had our first 2010 visitor from Jan 5-13. BLee Williams from Saint John, NB came down to show Steve how to work some of his fancy equipment like a little remote operated vehicle (ROV) called "Ray".

The boys both had super fun with BLee - he has a boy Nathan's age so he knows what it is all about!

Poor BLee only had one nice weather day as he was here during the super cold snap down here in Florida - jackets had to be worn the rest of the time.

Daniel Interrogation

Here are Daniel's responses to a few simple questions... click play on the video.

What is your name?
What colour are your eyes?
What colour is your hair?
etc.

You will notice a few answers are repeated... his new favourite word is "eight" and although is favourite colour is "lella" (yellow) when we got the camera, everything became "red".

video to come....

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