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Aaahhh, How They Grow!!

I didn't realize that turtles grew so fast! And to think, we've only had Skipperdee for a week and a half!

I mean, look at him! He's as big as my hand now! At this rate, he's going to outgrow the tank in a month!

OK, not really. The Original Skipperdee actually died the day before yesterday. (Only, we didn't realize that he had died until yesterday. Ew.) I think that he pretty much starved to death because we hadn't seen him eat since we got him. It's probably safe to say that being sent through the mail probably didn't do him much good.
The funny thing is that Reilly wasn't really sad that he died. We had warned her that it might happen because we've known that he wasn't eating, so I think that that prepared her somewhat. Add that to the fact that all he did was lay around on the rock in the water, showing about as much personality as...well...a turtle that's not eating, and I don't think she really got too attached to him.
So, this is a new turtle that is actually going by several names now. Skipperdee Two, Dozer, The Deez - Reilly says she's going to change its name every day! She (the turtle) is much bigger, much more active, has already shown that she can eat like a horse, and, thankfully, was purchased here in town so there's more ready access to knowledgeable people...and to an actual store where she can be returned if she begins to go downhill!

The Arrival of Skipperdee

Last Saturday, we had a garage sale and we had told both of The Kids that if they contributed some of their toys and things to the sale, they could keep some of the money to buy something for themselves. Well, Reilly went for it whole-hog because she decided that she wanted a TURTLE! (I thought that she was saving for an Americal Girl doll, but she veered off into the land of amphibians...)

So, because she worked so hard and was so relentless with her culling of toys, on Sunday, Troy ordered a red-eared slider turtle for her. Through thorough tracking online, we knew that we were to expect the arrival of Skipperdee at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. And, honestly, from all the excitement and anticipation, you would have thought we were waiting for the arrival of the Pope, or something.

At 10:30, on the dot, I saw The Box Man pull up to the house. I don't believe that any UPS man has been greeted with such enthusiasm as was the man who had the honor of delivering Skipperdee to our door. Between the shrieking children and the barking dog, we may well have scarred him for life.

In that picture, she had just gotten done washing her hands so she can take him out of the box. I love the look of pure joy on her face!

I will say, he's a cute little fella! One of the reasons that Troy ordered him online was so that he could get a smaller one. Skipperdee is only about 3 inches long!

(SHOOT! I was going to include a video of him, scooting along, but it didn't upload!)

He is Risen!

The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!

We had a fantastic Easter Sunday! The Kids dug into their Easter baskets right upon awakening, of course. I love putting together their baskets, although it can be kind of hard because I really try to strike a balance between candy and trinkets. I have NO intention of Easter turning into a gift-giving holiday, so there won't be movies or CD's or things like that in their baskets. This year they each got a packet of "striped" crayons (each crayon is multicolored) and Reilly got a little drawing book and Declan got a David & Goliath activity book. Then, of course, there was the candy assortment: a chocolate bunny (of course!) Reese's peanut butter eggs, some Whopper's eggs, and these awesome marsmallows shaped like little bunnies! I mean, like regular marshmallows like you could put in your hot chocolate, just bunny shaped! My kids are marshmallow fiends, so these were a BIG hit!

Then it was on to church, where my friend Flea was greeting. I mention Flea because she's great and she wrote this great post about Easter! Oh, how I love our church! I love the praise and worship songs that we sing, I love the message that Bruce teaches, I love watching the choir and seeing the faces of my beautiful friends up there; Keil, Jesse, Tammy, Charlotte, Lois, Camille, Kayla, plus so many others, just singing their hearts out, praising and glorifying our risen King! Wow! And me, standing between my husband and my mom, singing my heart out, praising my risen King! At one point, I looked over at Troy and thought, "Who would have thought I'd end up here with him?" God is so good!

After church, we went to my mom's house for lunch with Natalie and Stephen and their kids, Myra and Ken, and Mom's friend, John. We had the most wonderful array of food and I ate until I thought I'd pop, and then I added some fruit pizza on top for dessert! Myra had brought eggs for all of the kids to hunt, so we did that and then all came home and fell into a ham-induced coma.

What a day! What an awesome, glorious celebration!

"Amazing love, how can it be,

that you, my King, would die for me?

Amazing love, I know it's true.

And it's my joy to honor You

in all I do.

I honor You."

Just a Little Somthing Funny

If you want to laugh, go and read this post from Notes from the Trenches! Chris is so funny!