When I grow up I wanna be a Worm Helper!

I realize that it's been a couple of weeks since I last blogged but with good excuse. We've been sick! First Maddy, then me, then Maddy again, then Chris, then Liam, and me again. Blahhhh, I swear we are healthy people. We wash our hands, take our vitamins, and drink lots of orange juice but yet somehow those nasty little viruses find their way into our home! So there has been a lot of tissue using, medicine gulping, humidifying, soup slurping, and pajama parties on the couch. We've watched Planet Earth and The Jeff Corwin Experience a ton. I feel like if we are going to be glued to the television during our 'sick time', then we might as well educate ourselves while we do it. Jeff Corwin is awesome by the way.

Forts were a good way to keep the sickly children to stay calm and in one place.

Maddy was very proud of her salad that she 'cooked' for the family. She helped daddy to cut all of the veggies and then lovingly decorated her plate with all of the fixin's. I realize it has nothing to do with this blog but she was very proud of it!

 Liam has been walking up a storm! It has become his preferred mode of getting around. If he falls down, he gets right back up to keep walking instead of crawling the rest of the way. Tonight I swear he was running around! He was moving SO fast. He has become daddy's little shadow lately as well. He follows behind Chris wherever he goes. When Chris is in the kitchen and Liam is in the living room trapped by the gate, Liam will throw all of his toys over to Chris hoping to bribe him into coming back.

This has become a nightly routine for them. They snuggle on the couch until one or both of them doze off.

Maddy is now in the process of growing her own little worms. She got an earthworm nursery for Christmas and just received her worm pods in the mail today. We had to soak them in water to remove the packing clay away from the eggs and then place them in a little tub of water (and by we, I mean Chris. I stood far away making sure he didn't touch everything in the kitchen with his 'worm goo' hands). So far 6 worms have hatched from a batch of 30 and Maddy lovingly placed them in their little nursery. As she placed them in there she would say things like 'Welcome to your new little home', 'Be nice and please don't hiss at one another', 'If you meet a friend, you can talk to them and ask them to go see a movie and then maybe someday you can be a family and have your own babies'. She even went as far as naming the first one Leesha.  It was all very cute.

Maddy is getting the nursery ready for the baby worms. You can see the worm pods soaking in the net placed in the cup filled with murky water. Chris made sure it was a glass that I would never want to use in the future. Because that is EWWWY!

Here is their home. The main thing is filled with damp soil and is where we put the baby worms once they have hatched. The small circular thing next to it is where we put the eggs until they hatch

This is to show just how tiny they are.

Little Leesha getting acquainted with Maddy.