18 months and full of giggles.

Coty is such a good baby. Doesn't sleep all night but other than that, she is golden! Love that little lover dover. She is so yummy and happy.

Sesame Street Live was GREAT!

Sesame Street Live on Last Wednesday Night with our buddies. The sad sad boo boo face is before cotton candy. The happier faces are after holding cotton candy for a while. ha ha ha...

It was a great show

Fun.

A really wonderful person named Jennifer sent us 3 huge boxes of clothes for the kids that her daughter wore. LOVE to reuse, re-wear, recycle! Best part...play clothes!!!

Coty from the North Country

Bruce got himself and Hannah these hats a while ago. Coty has been trying it on lately. ha ha She looks so funny!

Bio Control on the farm.

This is kind of interesting.

This is the first year we've ever had this happen but all of our citrus has aphids. Not sure exactly why they appeared one day but here they are and they are yucky!!!

An organic way to control aphids is to us ladybugs as a bio control. Ladybugs eat aphids. So, my dear husband gets the info from cousin Jeff, and before you know it there are 15,000 ladybugs in my refrigerator awaiting to feast on a tasty treat.

The aphids secrete a sweet honey like substance that attracts other bugs and flies. Ants for instance farm aphids. They like the sweet stuff the aphids produce so they keep the aphids around and kill their preditors. The citrus trees are covered in all sorts of things that are attracted to the aphids. Some little flies, some ants, some wasp looking things. Its a whole coloney of insects moving in and out.

Bruce has been putting the ladybugs on the trees by hand and tonight Hannah wanted to help. The ladybugs came in a box and in a bag and you have to reach in and pull them out and put them on the trees. Hannah was into it. She had no problem reaching into the bag and pulling out a handful and putting them on the tree. She loved it. We started about 5 days ago and the ladybugs are already reproducing, laying eggs on the trees and eatting til their hearts content on aphids.

Ladybugs are cool.

September 11, 2006

Three years ago today we left for China for the first time to pick up Precious Hannah. What a trip it was. Time goes by so fast.