Where the Wild Things Are

...in the middle of a city?! LOL. We basically live in a downtown area and so you would think that it would unlikely to find "wild things" in our area. We have lots and lots of birds (they like the red berry trees, right Teresa?!), a number of squirrels and now apparently racoons.
On July 4, in the evening when Kurt and Dana came to meet Gabriella, we heard a whole lot of racket out back. We looked out to see why the birds were being so loud and there in the corner was a racoon!Unreal! And then this morning when I was up to feed Gabi I heard some rustling in the backyard again. I peeked out to find a or the racoon! Crazy! Who'd a thought?! (no, I didn't go and grab my camera for a photo this morning, this was taken on the 4th) And hey, Sarah has a Racoon Story on her blog too!


So Gabriella almost slept "all night" (according to many, to sleep through the night means sleeping 6 hours consecutively)!!!! She went 5 hours for me! Hooray! I didn't have to get up with her until 4:45am (going to bed about 11:30). Sweet! I've heard Girls are better and faster at this nighttime stuff. Let's hope she continues. Although her regular self up until now hasn't been bad either. 3-4 hours, I can live with that! (of course, I was up last night with Samuel before I was up with Gabi, but such is life! I don't mind.)

And I see I haven't updated my sidebar yet. I thought about it on Sunday and should have just done it. I will get to it soon. Today I am working on getting the Girl's bits and pieces out of "their" room so that the Student we have arriving tomorrow has the room ready for him. Yup, we have a Japanese boy, Hiroki, coming for a short trip to Canada, only 11 days.
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My Backyard

I got some lovely gifts for Mother's Day and for my upcoming birthday... My Mom and Dad brought over 2 hanging baskets like this (it was on my list)...they are beautiful! Thank you!Jade and Sara had made me a picture and cards for Mother's Day and Elijah did too...as well as a bunch of tulips, 5 of them-one from each of them (Jason, Elijah, Samuel, Jade and Sara). Some other things I rec'd was a Cozy Home Certificate (can't wait to spend it!! thanks Matt) and some snowmen things to add to my Christmas collection...thanks Paul and Carla!

While taking a picture of my hanging basket, I snapped this one of a rhodedendrum (spelling?) for my Saskatchewan Friends! Apparently these aren't in Saskatchewan; well, maybe they are and now this would help you recognize such a bush (and maybe they aren't). Isn't it beautiful?

It's beginning to look a lot like Spring!!!

The sun has been shining more; I've got my jean capris on today (thanks to Julie for lending me an assortment of Maternity clothes!), the birds are chirping at 3:00am (really)... it's light out til after 7:30pm... andI've planted some annuals already. These are the ones that Superstore has had lining their entrance way for over a month already... andone of my Rhodo Bushes is starting to bloom!... andI noticed these mini daffodils popped up too. Alexa gave these to me as a house warming gift last April... glad that they have popped out on their own! Thanks for these... what a wonderful gift idea, the gift that keeps on giving! Click this to see the post I did with these daffodils last year.
Welcome Spring... when is the First day of Spring, I can't see it on my calendar?