We’ve had these odd orange and black wormy-bug type things on our back porch lately. Sean was afraid of them because he thought they would bite him.
As it turns out, these are ladybug larvae, or ladybug babies, as I told Sean. So we’ve stopped killing them. Here are some other pictures that show various forms of maturity for the bugs.
We like ladybugs. Sean isn’t afraid of the bugs anymore. He thinks they’re kinda cute now. Here is a great site for those mysterious bugs you find.
Mia is 7 weeks old today. She had her 2 month old check-up yesterday. She is 11.9 pounds (chunk!) and 22 inches tall. She’s starting to coo and smile more often. She especially likes to talk to her toys on her bouncy seat. She was in the hospital for a couple of days just before she was 6 weeks old. She had non-RSV bronchiolitis. She’s almost fully recovered from that. She had to stay for 2 nights and be on oxygen to help her since she was working hard to breathe. That was NOT fun. Needless to say, I spent a couple of mostly sleepless nights at the hospital as well. Nathan, my mom and my sis-in-law, Amanda, helped hold the fort down at home with Sean.
Sean was running around the house and playing like he was defeating bad guys. I caught him when he got close to me and I gave him a hug. He told me, “I have to fight the monsters! I don’thave time for hugging ladies!”. He cracks me up. Then he came back in a couple minutes and said, “okay, I’m ready for hugging ladies!”.
He uses a little red scarf as his whip to defeat the bad guys. He’s been doing this since the first time he played Lego Indiana Jones.
I saw a Craigslist ad today for “organic tobacco seeds”. I thought to myself, “Are there actually smokers that are so concerned about their health that they’ll only smoke organic tobacco? Surely not. That would be silly. If you were that concerned, you wouldn’t smoke, right?”. Wrong. Apparently there are smokers out there that are concerned about the chemicals they inhale. What?! Yeah. There’s even a special brand out there for those organic smokers who don’t want to grow and roll their own. Like that page says : Smoking is SMOKING. Smoking means Inhaling smoke into your lungs. Don’t try to make it “healthier”. That’s just silly.