Clubhouse, Honor Student, Lizard updates & More

There's been lots of very important things happening, so I've been much too busy to do separate posts for it all.

For instance, I was able to send the kids off to tennis practice while I sat in the truck and read

2 books.

Very important things.

Over the past 3 windy weeks we have been working on a clubhouse for Aubree.

With wind gusts that have blown off roof tiles and blown over my rose tree, it took us longer to get it all done.

The whole family (reluctantly) pitched in to help.



She loves to draw her many versions of T-Rex in seclusion

Why yes, that is a shower curtain from the dollar store. We ARE geniuses, thank you.

Karson finally got that basement he's been asking for.



Karson has been working so hard at school this year and has made huge improvements with his school work! Even though he may never have straight A's in general ed, he has made such awesome progress that his Autism teacher felt he earned this Honor Student bumper sticker. He has been coveting the 4 or 5 of them that the neighbor has for a while now, so it was really a big deal to him! We are so proud of him and know he will continue to improve.

Tailless, the gecko saved from the clutches of the evil cat has now grown his tail back and has become known as Lucky.

My nephew Bryson had his 1st birthday on Cinco de Mayo or as his mother so eloquently put it Conco de Mayo. (and she speaks spanish!)
He is so stinking cute!

His brother Porter in Grandpa Dan's disgusting barn boots.

The Crazy Lizard Family

Are we starting to be known as that "weird lizard family"??? No? Maybe after this story the answer will be yes.

So a week or so ago, I went downstairs in the morning to find a tail of a lizard on my kitchen floor. It was very small and white, so it did not belong to either of my current lizards.

I assumed the worst, and figured Clover had another victim and was just glad that it was not a giant moth (last spring she would bring these giant moths into our bedrooms every single night, sometimes several times a night, and they would fly around hitting the walls like a bat until we got up and chased them down and killed them. It still haunts our entire family).

Fast forward 5 nights later, Ryan and Aubree hear a lot of cat noise going on downstairs, so both having flashbacks of the giant moths, hurried downstairs to find Clover on the steps "playing" with a lizard that ....was missing it's tail!

Ryan somehow managed to get the lizard away from the terrorist and put it in our lizard habitat.

I did some online reading a discovered it was a native Desert Banded Gecko.

And, his tail will grow back, which it actually is.

He's tiny, and like to hide in the leaves.

So what's next for Clover?

Looks like a bird somewhere is missing it's feathers.