Yummm... Frogs!

Last weekend, in the depths of my illness, I begged my mother to drive the girls and me to the "All Ohio reptile show" in Columbus, so I could buy some new frogs for Molly and Kate's bog. As insane as it sounds to go out when I was terribly ill, it should be noted this show comes to town only once a month and this was the only month we were available to go between now and August, hence the urgency. After much debate, we purchased two beautiful red eye tree frogs named Cha Cha (Pictured above) and Ting-ting. These frogs are a wonderfully bright green and Kate especially, loves them. She delights in telling them stories and listening to them call eachother. This bog is one of the coolest little investments I have ever made... It's WAY better than an aquarium!

Fast forward one week:

Out of the goodness of her heart, when my mother came to get the girls ready this morning, she brought a bag of bright green shamrock cookies from our local bakery. As Grandma and Molly were sitting at the table, enjoying their last bites of cookie, a groggy Kate entered the room and declared with shock and total dismay "Grandma!!! You are eating one of our new frogs!!!"

I think my favorite part of this whole "parenting gig" would be the completely random things my girls do, and the random comments they make. I can only imagine the horror my poor Kate must have felt in that moment, when she believe her grandma was eating one of her new frogs - but to her credit, she recovered quickly and laughed along with the rest of us. That's the good stuff....

"I learned what SMUGGLE means!"

Wow, I'm typically better at updating my blog than this. Sorry! Cramming 2 weeks in to one... we went to Niagara falls on Valentines day, and had an amazing time. We had a bit of a fumble though, when we got the Canadian Border and realized we did not have the correct birth certificate for my friends's youngest daughter "A2"" ...she had accidentally sent one of the boys certs with me. FORTUNATELY the border patrol didn't notice or just didn't say anything - and so we were permitted to cross for the day. I will blog more about our trip later...

We have new frogs for our bog... we have 2 red eye tree frogs who are just absolutely awesome. They can be a bot difficult to keep in captivity, but it appears we are doing things correctly, so I hope they choose to live.

I became violently ill last week with Kidney stones, a raging kidney infection and a wicked reaction to my completely ineffective antibiotic. I was down for several days and after a week am finally starting to feel better. I haven't been that ill in a decade. People who are on facebook (which I also discovered last week) noted my long and drawn out whines.

And finally.... poor Kate has strep again, diagnosed by Dr. MOM. I am making an appointment for her in 2 minutes and 19 seconds, and if this isn't strep, I'll eat my coat!

If she is feeling well enough, we will be going back to COSI this Saturday to see the frog exhibit with Molly, Aunt Chrissy and cousin M. I hope and pray she is well enough...

We have a bog...

Greetings friends.... I have to show you our newest project. We have a Frog bog! Otherwise known as a vivarium, or living terrarium. This is a work in progress, as I am still trying to figure out how to create a water feature.

Above is our first green tree frog "Pearl". Kate named her herself, because she has a pearly belly.

Here is Molly looking at the bog last evening. We also have a green tree frog named "honey" because she has 3 yellow spots on her back. (Molly was the name creator here.) We are planning to get poison dart frogs (which are NOT poison in captivity) and maybe a couple of red eye tree frogs. I'll keep you posted!