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So I am at home... the baby is sleeping yet again... kids are watching a movie... I should be doing more laundry and cleaning but I feel compelled to write. So I thought it would be fun to list a few interesting facts about members of my family. Lets start with Curtis.

Curtis: Loyal, stubborn, perfectionist, passionate.
1- Curtis has been involved in Search and Rescue since he was 16 years old.
2- Curtis craves wings on a daily basis.
3- Curtis is not a fan of ordinary sports that use a ball.
4- Curtis is a certified rescue diver.
5- Curtis is allergic to everything under the sun except dogs.
6- Curtis hates dogs.
7- Curtis will however love Becky's future dog:).
8- Curtis does one thing at a time, and does it very well.
9- Curtis loves solving puzzles.
10- Curtis will stop and help anyone who needs it.

Becky: Loving, overly trusting, stubborn, spunky
1- Becky loves to learn and feels stressed if she is not learning something new.
2- Becky can get overly silly and will tease those she loves till they beg her to stop.
3- Becky loves animals and would like a small hobby farm one day with horses, a donkey, a goat, and maybe a pig.
4- Becky has a hard time letting go.
5- Becky loves throwing parties.
6- Becky gets bored easily.
7- Becky thrives best when she is with her family in the outdoors.
8- Becky loves weird food.
9- Becky does not like to be alone.
10- Becky loves growing her vegetable garden every year.

Sage: Energetic, intelligent, social, emotional
1- Sage LOVES animals
2- Sage reads more than most kids do her age.
3- Sage can get very angry.
4- Sage seeks for acceptance by all.
5- Sage is very kind to everyone.
6- Sage's favorite color is blue.
7- Sage is very loyal to her friends.
8- Sage loves to climb rocks and wants to be a rock climber like her dad.
9- Sage understands concepts that some adults don't understand.
10- Sage recently learned to swim but still struggles with floating on her back.

Ashton: Sweet, thoughtful, helpful, has no sense of personal space.
1- Ashton loves to play with small figures for hours.
2- Ashton is very very... very touchy.
3- Ashton has the best smile there is.
4- Ashton is very forgiving.
5- Ashton's best friend is Sage.
6- Ashton randomly tells his parents he loves them all the time.
7- Ashton is very good with his hands.
8- Ashton is learning his ABC now and has about half of them memorized.
9- Ashton skin burns faster than Sage's.
10- Ashton's favorite thing to do is go for rides in his dad's jeep, and on the motorcycle.

Jace: Adorable, talkative, loud, Big
1- Jace is a tall boy.
2- Jace recently started solids and ate over a 1/2 cup on hir first day.
3- Jace is happiest when he wakes up from a nap or a long sleep.
4- Jace likes to be tossed around.
5- Jace screams so loud it hurts his parents ears.
6- Jace is stubborn.
7- Jace licks everything with his pointy tongue.
8- Jace is an excellent napper!
9- Jace is starting to get interested in books.
10- Jace has olive toned skin.

Gumba: Loud, picky, sweet, excitable.
1- Gumba was caught in the wild and was not hand raised and fed.
2- Gumba we think is a male bird
3- Gumba is a blue fronted amazon parrot.
4- Gumba loves redheads.
5- Gumba loves children.
6- Gumba prefers woman over men.
7- Gumba will scream in the mornings.
8- Gumba loves to have his neck rubbed and under his chin.
9- Gumba will attack you and draw blood if he feels threatened.
10- Gumba was abused by his formal owners.

Honey- Old, sweet, loving, mouser
1- Honey is the cat
2- Honey was found at Goshen Pond being chucked out of the window of a mini van.
3- Honey was extremely mal nourished when we found her.
4- Honey fetches milk rings and brings them back to you.
5- Honey disappeared last summer to reappear when it got cold months later.
6- Honey makes Curtis sneeze.
7- Honey loves strong smells like stinky feet.
8- Honey will pee on the clothes of people she does not like.
9- Honey is a superb mouser but leave the bird alone.
10- Honey is over 10 years old.

Ok so I think that is about it. Random facts on all of us. I think its great that a family that is so different can get along and love each other the way we do. Curtis and I have a lot of common interests but our personalities are very different too. I would say that Sage and Curtis are the most alike. But somehow we all fit well together like puzzle pieces to make a great picture.

Dandelions!!!

Today while my adorable baby slept I decided to head out and wage war against my dandelions that are wreaking havoc upon my lawn. Because it had rained recently they were pretty easy to dig up and the temperature was perfect so I comfortably dug up maybe 80 of these beloved weeds! As I used my weed digger to uproot these pesky flowers, my thoughts turned to why we have these flowers to begin with.

Dandelions are not native to the Americas. If you dare to believe it, they were actually brought over by some of the first settlers and planted near their villages as a source of food! That's right Dandelions were actually used as a source of food and are really quite nutritious. You can make dandelion coffee, salad, tea, wine or just eat the root raw. I bet the settlers appreciated this invasive weed a lot more than we do!

Maybe my neighbor appreciates them as well... because looking at her lawn I sigh in frustration knowing that my weed free front lawn will not last for long if the wind blows my direction... which I am sure it will. I wonder if she will know its me if I leave her some Weed B Gone on her front porch?

To end this small blog I would just like to thank the dandelion for helping out the settlers when this land was still fairly untouched. I would also like to tell the dandelion that although it has done great things in the past, I would really rather it go somewhere else so I can be like all those old people who due to the lack of things to do, have perfect lawns! Oh and all the kids in the neighborhood, go somewhere else to make your wish! (Ha ha I sound like an old grumpy man).

That is all.