Will's First Pet (Sortof)

   I know many of you are blown away that I am actually doing a second post within a week from my last one!  I'm a little surprised myself, but got these pictures of Will that I thought were so cute and funny!
   Will lately has become obsessed with bugs!  You can't walk out the door without him dropping to his knees looking for bugs and then he constantly talks about what they are doing, such as going into the little homes or looking for food.  I personally think they are running for their lives because they are scared to death of him.  The poor roley poley's are really picked on by him and once they have rolled into a ball, Will loves to carry them around and roll them between his two little fingers.
   So a couple of weeks ago, I found a little kit where you could send away for caterpillars and then watch them go from caterpillars to chrysalides to butterflies.  I thought it would be so much fun for Will and not a lot of work for me, so it was a definitely win-win situation.  Once those caterpillars arrived in the mail, Will checked on them about 15 times a day to see if they were moving, eating, hanging upside down or whatever.  Then last Saturday, the caterpillars formed or made (not sure about the correct terminology) into their chrysalides.  This is where the challenge came in for me, because the flyer said it was very important for them not to be wiggled or moved a lot during this period of change for them, because Will would want to constantly take them around the house.  Thankfully or maybe miraculously, they survived!  On Saturday and Sunday morning, they emerged from there chrysalides.  Will loves these three butterflies more than they would probably like to be loved!  He is always wanting to feed them some sugar water and give them more flowers, and carry them around the house!  I am going to give him another day or two and then Grant and I think it would be good for them to be released.
This has been such a fun learning experience for Will.  There are a bunch of other types of kits you can get too.  Grant and I are thinking of getting him another one for his birthday in a couple of months.  You can get more information on all of them here.

Will obviously is so happy with his little butterflies!
He kept telling me, "They are such cute little fellas, mommy!"

Here he is feeding the butterflies sugar water with his little dropper.
I really hope you can't overfeed a butterfly! 

I thought this picture was hilarious because he kept clapping at them
and saying, "Come here little guys!" in a sweet, little voice. 

One Down, Two More to Go!!

     Grant just finished up his first year of law school (and when I say "just" I mean, he finished about a month ago, but I am just getting around to posting it).  We just got grades today and Grant did such a great job in school this year!  I am so proud of him for all of his hard work and time that he put into his studying!  It really paid off!  We feel really fortunate that he also got a paid clerkship for the summer and even better it is right around the corner from us!  So now he can walk to work and be home literally within 5 minutes!  I have been busy this last semester, with being at home with Will and then also watching two more kids 4 days a week.  I don't think I have ever worked so hard for what felt like so little, this is also including the time as a child when I thought my parents were breaking child manual labor laws and making me do garden work!  Will has developed into such a talker, which probably doesn't surprise many of you who know Grant and me, but I love to hear him talk!  Most of the time he is talking about the cookie monster that lives in our house, who was at first confined to the basement, but has made his escape several times and made his way upstairs.  Will has also started learning to express himself, and will often tell me when he is "frustated!"  This last week in nursery, he was arguing with a little boy over a chair and after a few moments of pulling the chair back and forth he just looked at him and  exclaimed, "I am so frustated!  It drive me nuts!"  All his nursery leaders thought it was pretty funny and amazing that he could express himself instead of just hitting the little boy.
     Since it has obviously been a while since I have posted anything.  I thought I would just post a bunch of random pictures of things that have been happening for our family.  These first couple of pictures are some family pictures that we had taken while we were in Utah at Christmas time.

 

    Then at the beginning of April, Marianne and her friend, Logan, came out for a visit and we had a lot of fun with them here!

Grant and I out on the grounds by the Winter Quarters temple.

Marianne, Logan, and Will pushing a handcart at the Mormon Trail Center.

Here Marianne is being a great aunt and playing with Will!  He loves those capes and when he found out Marianne would race back and forth across the apartment with him, I think he asked her daily to play with capes!  What a great sport Marianne was!

  It is not a great picture of the bridge but this is some monument they have by the Missourri River with this Pedestrian Bridge that you can walk across.  It is the longest pedestrian bridge to connect two states in the country!  That's right folks! I have it right here in Omaha! The next one down is a picture of Marianne, Will and me on the actual bridge!

 

These pictures are of Will on Easter morning!  We got a little wagon that he loves to

 go for rides in around the house, zoo, or just about anywhere someone will take him!

Will is super excited about all the eggs he found!  Who wouldn't be with all that candy!

   That pretty much sums up a lot of what we have been doing for the last little while.  We don't have too many plans for the summer, just excited for my parents to visit in two weeks and then Grant's mom a couple of weeks after that!  Maybe if I am feeling ambitious, I will take more pictures and post more of our little happenings, but I am definitely not going to make promises!