Our Backyard Bun-Bun

Baby Bun:

Another Random Act of Cuteness!

I got home this evening, and Keith wanted to show me something in the yard.... except what he wanted to show me had an issue!

He went over to the one window well and then told me to get the shovel. HUH???
Me: Oh, no, don't tell me there is some dead animal in there!!??! (Three basement windows on the south side of the house were created, and the ground was dug out to allow that, so the wells are lined in concrete and about two-feet deep.)

This tiny baby bunny was cuddled up in the corner down at the bottom of the window well. He fell in and couldn't get out! Poor little bun-bun!! He is no bigger than the palm of my hand! So I climbed in and tried to pick him up to return him to ground level, but he got a little scared and was hopping all over. After a few strokes on his little head, he trusted me enough to let me lift him out. At that moment, my in-laws showed up with the kids and the bun-bun ran into his little hole between two of the windows... it wasn't deep though...he was just kind of protected, but not under the ground. He sat there and let us pet him a little bit.

Oh, so the funny comment for the RAC today is what my father-in-law said, and it relates to the Van Gogh post below. He said, "Tell that bunny to stay away from Samantha or he might lose his left ear!"

Random Act of Cuteness for March

(I've been keeping this one in my head and very late to post it, but I can't just let it slip away!)

While hanging out in the kids' room, I overhear this role playing by Samantha and her "Holly" (Polly) Pocket dolls:

(One is a boy and the other a girl.)

Girl: (In a shrill pretend voice) "Marry me or die!"

Me: What? Samantha! Do you think you have to die or get married?
Sammy: I want you to marry me, Mommy!
Me: I can't marry you! I'm your mommy!
David: I'll marry you, Mommy!
Sammy: Yeah, you can marry David!
Me: I can't marry David either! I'm already married to Daddy!
Sammy: Okay. Then you can die for Daddy.
Me: Oh, really? Let me think about that one!
David: Yeah! You grow up. You get married. You are happy. Then you die.

If Van Gogh were alive and trying to take over the world...

He'd start with this little (f)earless army of bunnies!!!







I kid you not... this is how it went down:

While sitting down to Easter dinner at my in-laws' house, they told of how they presented these cute little bunnies to a sweet little girl to play with...and within minutes, strange bits of colored fuzzy things were scattered on the floor around these bunnies. When asked what happened to the ears on the bunnies, Samantha reports, "I don't know! They just fell off!!"

What I don't seem to get is why she chose to only amputate the left ears!

Have a wonderful start to spring, everybody! We miss you!

And another little bird spreads her wings and tries to fly...

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures, mostly because I'm running off of very minimal sleep, but Samantha stepped onto the kindergarten campus today and began the registration process! I can't believe how time flies. (I know, I always say that!) It just seems to keep getting faster and faster though. Wasn't I just doing the registration process for David? Now the boy is reading and writing and telling me all about worldly things with such excitement.

Samantha is nothing like David though! David has been the model student so far from start to finish. I don't know if it has to do with his age or his personality. Samantha though is like an electric tumbleweed!

First I tried to get her ready for registration. She was on the floor in front of the TV in her underpants watching Noggin. She yells to me, "I don't want to go. Take Caesar!" Yeah, like I'm going to dress up the cat and pass her off for my daughter... although, Caesar probably wouldn't have shoved his paw up his nose and then stuck it in his mouth in front of the principal like a certain someone ended up doing! Arrrggh!!! She scored very low in her evaluation, so she might become an all-day kindergarten student, but that will probably be good for her. I expected this because she hasn't been as interested in the alphabet and numbers as her brother has always been. She marches to her own little punk-rock drummer, and you can't get into her stubborn little head when she is having one of those moments. Nonetheless, she is growing up too, and she is looking forward to school...if only they wouldn't start it so early though! ha ha ha

Down the hallway from the library...I made my way to David's classroom to drop something off. He was so surprised to see me there! His teacher is the sweetest. There he was working hard on a drawing and story for the day. His little classmates are so cute. They all looked up and whispered about the unexpected visit. If only you could just bottle every moment like that!