what am i supposed to tell sunday?

Today on the way to the grocery store, Mr. Webb and I saw this sign in a construction zone:



Double Lane Closure

Tell Sunday Night



Really?

this is not the visitor i wanted to see outside my door...

Apparently, this little fella...okay - BIG fella - is called a cat-faced spider. And it is NASTY! I found it outside on my porch yesterday, and it was the size of my big toe. SICK! The only reason I know what it's called is because my brother saw one yesterday, too, on a campout. And one of the boys he was with knew what it was called. I looked them up, and they're harmless (but I'm not believing THAT), I guess. But it was huge, and it looked like a crab, so I trapped it underneath a cottage cheese carton so Mr. Webb could see it (and kill it) when he got home.

They're called cat-faced spiders because their puffy abdomen (which I thought was an egg sac, but isn't) has little indents that look like eyes and pointy bits that look like ears. You can google it for better pictures that really do look like cat faces.

Goodbye, cat-faced spider. Please don't come again. You're creepy!

baby updates!

Lots of pictures in this one!

First off, my baby met one of her pre-birth friends. Just half a year ago, my co-worker and I were both pregnant! She finally had her baby, and we went to show our cute girls off at our old place of work. Look how cute they are! They are going to be best friends.

We gave baby her first rice cereal. Are you wondering what she thought about it? These pictures will answer that question.

Today was day 3 of trying to feed it to her, and now she won't even open her mouth. I'll keep trying for a few days, but if it doesn't get better, I might give up!

She also got her first taste of applesauce. It's canning season, and my mom has 2 apple trees in her yard. So on Friday night we picked apples, and pretty much all day Saturday we cooked and smushed them into the yummiest applesauce ever! I dipped the binky in the applesauce, and you better believe that baby sucked that binky very vigorously! She liked it, I think! Also, we canned 83 quarts on Saturday. More to come this weekend!

These last few pictures are her sad face (I still think it's even more sad when you see it in person), and her 5 month old pictures. She turned 5 months old TODAY!

recent happenings

1. I've decided to "Spring" clean my house. In the fall. I'm getting closer to being done with my kitchen - hopefully the hardest room in the house! It's a mess right now.
2. Even though I drink it year round, I am glad to welcome back hot chocolate weather! I love the rain and gray skies. I wait for this weather all year. My favorite.
3. Our battery for our much loved MacBook died...and I probably shouldn't say it...but maybe it knew Steve Jobs was going to also. Oh...that was horrible. But seriously, what a coincidence! Anyway, I'm waiting to post on my recipe blog until we get our new one, because I don't want to put my pictures on this computer. Also, my recipe blog is kind of on hold while I'm cleaning my kitchen. because I can't really cook until it's put back together.
4. My baby is so big! She's about 5 months old now, and she can roll all around the room. I will probably start her on rice cereal in the next few weeks.

That's pretty much it.