From Mom, May 30th 2010 2:20am

Hiya,

Well today was a much nicer day to work, no rain, though honestly we didn't start working on it until noon. We didn't get up until about 10am or so and had to clean up the puppies and shirley sprayed down the dog porch. The day before I washed all of our puppies(11 combined) and Sadie to while Shirley got ready for puppy people. So today we put up the top plate on the walls, the support for the ridge beam, the ridge beam(thanks to the lifting skills of Sam) and the first to pairs of rafters. Then it was too dark to really see, so we quit and went and picked up mexican food for dinner. So that was about it. When all the rafters are in place I'll take a picture of it and send it to you so you can see our awesomeness. Hehe.

I think I've been able to see Wyatt 4 times now since he was born. I've only seen pictures of James' granddaughter, Raina. Surprisingly Raina has dark brown hair with reddish tones and not bright red hair. I guess Jamie is getting married in a few months to a guy named Micah. Sheryl's husband is named Micah also.

I had gotten the fish tank a weekend in between having the boys and set it up for a week to let the water adjust chemically. The next weekend Bear and I drove two Costco by ourselves and got 3 neons. We had to start out with a small number of fish for the adjustment of the new tank. So I have the tank set up on the purple dresser and put the little oak chair next to it so Bear can stand on it and be just tall enough to see into the tank and watch the fish but can't reach the top to "feed" them by himself. So he got to watch the release and first feeding of them. Then one weekend later, I broke down Dutch's crate and the puppy area and repainted the dog room and when that was all dry again, I put Cubby's crib in the corner where the puppies had been and brought upstairs Bear's tot bed and put it feet first towards the window and made the bed up with your tigger/pooh comforter. I moved the pie safe that holds my printer into the closet. So the next Friday when I brought the littles home again and got them ready for bed. I told Bear to go to be and he went right over to his little bed and climbed under the comforter and covered himself up. Because I had moved the printer, I could see him in his bed and he could see me and he went right to sleep. Then the next day we went back to pet smart and got 6 more neons. and if your doing the math you'll notice that 1 is missing. Yeah, one didn't make the first week. Which is one great reason for having all the same type of fish. Of course I still think it's cool to see a bunch of them swimming around together. Next time I get the littles, we will go out a get a few more. Then the time after that maybe a new filter for the water filter, and the next time maybe one of those chinese algea eaters to help keep the tank clean or a live plant or picture for the tanks back drop. So every time they come for a visit we can go out and get a little something for it. So his interest will continue as the tank develops and it will keep entertaining him. Other than that we are working on a matchbox car collection. Only the coolest cars will do, nothing lame for us. Shirley gave Bear a lunch box that Levi had that is soft and has a matchbox logo on the cover. It is cool of course to Bear.

Hope your doing okay and staying healthy.

Love you, Mom.