Fire Ants!

Yesterday Jake got attacked by fire ants in our backyard. He was playing in the grass and started to cry. I ran over to him and he had fire ants crawling up his feet and on his hands and on his clothes. I pulled his clothes off and brushed the ants off his hands and feet. There were only about 10 ants on him, but each one must have bit him several times. I counted 39 bites!
This hand had 18 bites!

and this foot had 16 bites. The other hand had only one bite and his other foot had 4 bites. Poor little guy!

Mischief Man

Jake found a bag of goldfish in the diaper bag.....and of course, he decided just to help himself.

The next week he learned how to climb onto the kitchen counter. (Here he is sneaking an apple)

The Bayou

Less than 2 miles from our house is a walking/biking trail called the Bayou. It follows a series of natural swampy lakes. A few weeks ago Gwen came to visit us in Texas. We took her to the Bayou, the kids were hoping to show her an alligator, but we didn't see one. We just saw lots of fish and turtles.

Last week we went back to the Bayou and Jared spotted an alligator, just as we were getting ready to leave. That was the first time I've seen an alligator in Katy.

Can you find the alligator?

Jared and Sara pretending to be scared. The alligator is about 8 feet away from the viewing platform, to the far left of the picture, you can just see his eyes poking out of the water.

Jake....just being cute.