Keeping Milo a bit longer

Heather (Mike's niece) is upset because Morgan (Pam's daughter) asked Heather about Milo & want Heather to keep the pets. Heather lied to her & said that Milo is at the vet because of his tail. His tail is bend (bone part inside the tail). But actually Milo is with us. Milo is happy cat right now & we are spoiling him & he's bouncing off the walls. Just tonight, girls accidently let him out of room & he chased Jingle all over the house & knocking things over. LOL We panic & ran after Milo til Sallie caught him. I put him back in my room & told girls to go to bed now! Sallie & I laughed about the chase. I got girls in bed (past their bedtime). We are going to hold on to Milo a bit longer til Heather figure out this. We told her that her bf just pass away & it take time to recovery from this & not to rush into decisions. We are happy to hold on to Milo til she's ready to decide on what she want to do with him. She want to come over to take him bcause of inconvience. I told her nah! We are happy to have him. Girls love him. We will take care of him til she's ready to decide on what she want to do. That's what families are for.

Wanted good home for male kitten

Heather's dear friend passed away & Heather took her friend's dog & cat in. Lisa (Mike's sis) asked us to adopt him. At first we said no because he is male & only less than year old. So we don't know how he will interact with Jingle & Star. We would take in right away if he was female & couple of years old. But we changed our mind & said we can take him in temporary til Heather (his niece) find a home for him & I'm helping her to find a place for him. His name is Milo. Heather have about 6 or so pitbulls & they go crazy over this cat. She keep him in confined room & he need to house to play in. So this kitten is housecat & he is driving her dogs crazy. So she need a place for him & we are adopting him temporary. Right now they can't find a home for the dog but they know we won't take dog in because we got 3 little girls & 2 cats already. He's hyper & playful cat. Very sweet. He keep attacking Sophie every time Sophie walk pass him. LOL We had to discipline him that is no-no. Jingle don't react to him very well & we tried to put them together. Milo chased him & Jingle growled at him. Milo got scared & ran away.

Here's what I packed in my daughters' lunchboxes

I colored them tonight with all my love. It will be in sandwich bag along with few M&M for their lunch

Wild Sophie

Eating potato roll with cream cheese. LOL She's lil' cream cheese monster

She climbed on couch & she saw Sallie's things on top of shelves & want to grab it & figured out how to get up there. LOL

Girls had to join her. LOL

Second day of school

That's my girls! They love to give me funny poses for the pics. Sarah in white & Faith in red

Girls Day

They had so much fun. They love the class & they learned about basketball today. They got to play on their playground which they look forward most to. They said they both had a nap. Downside is Faith came home with juice box & the top lid is gone. I asked Faith about it & she said the teacher told her to throw it out. Ugh!! I am gonna called the teacher tomorrow to find out why someone told her to throw it out. Lucily for us it is cheap bottle.

I'm doing okay after surgery but I was so upset that I didn't feel well after the surgery. I struggled for hours but now I'm okay.

Girls First Day of School

Here are the girls getting ready for their first day of school. They won't stand still & smile. They're too exciting & pose for Mike. LOL I miss them already. Pre-K at Vienna Elementary School with Mrs Myers.

Sarah wears dark blue shirt & Faith wear lite blue/green:

School bus arrived. Off they go! I'm nervous about them riding the bus because the bus doesn't have seatbelt & girls are sitting together in #5. You can see Sarah in front & she was all happy & ran for the bus. LOL

McGinnis Tree Service

We hired McGinnis Tree Service of Delmar, DE. We watched him & his crew including grandson (I believe) working across the street. They have chopped down about more than 15 trees for our neighbor. I asked his wife to have him come over to chat with us about our trees & have those trees trim. He agreed that our trees need to be trim because they're too heavy & unhealthy. So weeks have gone by & we haven't heard from him til I called him & he said he will come by today. He & his crew came this morning. They did the first tree by the driveway & went from front tree to backyard trees then last tree in front by our bedroom windows. The crew are very nice guys & Robert is nicest man.


This is our middle tree in the backyard (before):


This is our end tree behind girls' window (before):

You can see all 3 trees in a row. They're working on the biggest & heaviest tree of all 5 trees. I keep objecting to the owner that (on your left) lone branch look funny by itself. He explained to me that on the other side there is smaller branch (on your right ~ not good view of that branch) is level with that lone branch. Sallie & I have been discussing with him on what to do with the front branch & lone branch. Sallie want to keep them. I want them down. We are stuck & we told him let's wait til Mike gets home. Mike check those branches out & he asked me to talk to the owner more about it. We found out that it will cost us $120 more to get both down. Mike went back in the house to talk to Sallie about $120 more. The owner pointed out that I should save the money for other tree which will died in maybe 2 yrs.

You can see the guy is cutting down the branches from the truck. That's the biggest tree we've got here.

After trimming the biggest tree, they take a lunch break (sorry for the pic ~ it was taken with my cellphone thru laundry room window). Look at one guy swinging on girls' swing. They giggled at him. Sarah said he's too big. LOL McGinnis wife stopped by for lunch break. It is kind of nice that they sit around in our backyard chairs & chat during lunchbreak.

Here's our backyard trees (before look):

Our tree in front of our bedroom window (before):

Now here are the after pics:

Our 3 trees in the backyard:

In this pic, you can see the lone branch (nearest the ground on your left) & other side branch split (nearest the ground on your right). Click on the pic to open up the pic bigger & you will see what I'm talking about. That's the one I object & thought they should remove it. But we decided not to after all. He gave me a gentle pat on my shoulder & said you will get use to it. LOL

This one was the biggest & heaviest tree. Now it look so much better & lighter.

This is our middle tree:

We received bad news about this tree (this one is behind girls' bedroom windows). McGinnis told me that this tree will died in 2 yrs given or taken. The tree are eaten up by carpenter ants. It's really bad. They had to cut down a lot of branches because ants ruin most of them. He said that they have eaten up most of branches, trunks & leaves above. Now they're eating up inside the trunk (body of tree) & he believe that they're gonna eat all the way down to the roots in the ground. The tree is gonna fall over in couple of years by strong storm once the roots are weaken. He said that once the carpenter ants are done with this tree & they will move on to the middle tree. It was surprise news because we thought biggest & heaviest tree is worse tree of all but he said no. this tree is the worse. It's not gonna live. Ants have done so much damage to it. Sallie was unhappy about that & knew she & Mike will have to take that one down in couple of years.

Close look for all our 3 trees in backyard:

Here's our front yard tree (by our bedroom windows):

Our tree by the driveway:

different view of our driveway tree:

View of our home with 5 trees:

Sweetest story happened at the end of day around 5pm. The crew found newborn squirrel in the backyard. It was like few days to a week old. McGinnis' grandson was holding it. I was dumb not to take the pic of it. After the crew cleaned up the yard, McGinnis drove his truck to the middle tree & went up in the tree to look for newborn squirrels & he found them (2 of them). He went back down to get the newborn squirrel & went back to put him/her back with his/her family before Momma squirrel missing him.

McGinnis said that our cement porch right in front of biggest & heaviest tree is full of ants that bites. He warned the girls that they should wear shoes because we got nasty ants around that area. So he told us to get pesticide for those trees.

My closing: Here's Sophie ~ enjoy her day at the library for storytime. She love it.

Sophie & her drum

My grandmother sent the girls gift card. We had to get something for Sophie. I came across this cute Baby Genius All-In-One Musical Band (it comes with maracas, tambourine, flute & drum with drumsticks). I thought it would be great for all 3 girls to play music together. It would be good for Sophie to play something with girls because on some days, there are some toys that girls play with & Sophie isn't permit to play with them. Most of toys that she got are baby toys & girls aren't into them. So I want something that all girls can play together. Sophie love it; so does the girls. Sophie will be 12 mos next month but the drum set said for 18 mos but Sophie love it so much. She would shake the maracas & bang the drum away.

Girls' 4th Birthday

Here they are!! Ready for Grandma Sallie's gifts. Faith on your left & Sarah on your right.
They were exciting to see Pucci Ponies & threw the clothes down. But look who's interest in their clothes. LOL

Yup ~ Sophie love to play with their clothes & try it on herself. LOL

Here they are ~ playing with their Pucci Ponies.

Opening cards from Aunt Dee & Uncle Ed (Candace).

Faith was counting the money. LOL Look what Sophie is doing ~ she want to get involved & playing envelopes. LOL

Our gifts to them. They love the bunch of clothes. Sarah especially love some outfits that we got them. Faith just threw them like a trash but later on she saw Sarah modeling the clothes & Faith joined the fun. LOL Faith just want toys.

Look at Sarah's expression when she saw cute pink sweatshirt. LOL

Opening the gifts of markers, dry-erase markers, colored pencils, eraser & more.

We didn't want to leave Sophie out & got her small balloon while girls got big ones. LOL

Here's Sophie ~ she's playing with girls' sneakers.

You can see her teeth ~ Daddy just made her laugh.

Trying to grab the camera.

Opening the 150 tower of Crayola. They love it so much.

Surprise faces when Mike brought out the art easel stand for them.

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to Sarah & Faith! Happy Birthday to you!! Yay!!!

Blow out the Crayola candles.

Earlier in the day, we took them to Diary Queen for Blizzard ice cream & lunch. Then took them to Wal-Mart to get them dress shoes. We picked up something for Sophie which is different post.