Week ending April 27, 2008: We’ve been enjoying the fine weather this week. Our cherry tree bloomed so I had to take the annual picture of the kids with the tree. While out there Walt Disney (the cat) came to join us. The blossoms on the tree don’t last very long and there are thousands of them so I don’t object when the kids want to pick some. What fun are flowers to just look at when you can pretend that they are wedding bouquets or any number of things? After a while the kids decided to decorate the cat and he sat regally while they adorned him with pink flowers. Casey’s been getting his exercise this week splitting the wood from the tree that we got from Uncle Brian. The kids were fascinated to watch him. He wanted them to stay a safe distance away so he assigned a spot that he deemed “far enough” and they sat there while he’d split a few pieces. Then when Casey would take a break they’d run over and gather up the little kindling-sized pieces as though they were some sort of treasure. The kids also wanted to try swinging the 13lb maul themselves and even with two of them in tandem they could barely lift it. While the kids watched their Dad, Walt Disney watched the kids. He’s really become a family cat. He sits under the trampoline and watches the kids bounce, and one time he jumped up on the springs and let himself in the trampoline (there is a zippered enclosure, but it was open because the kids were just climbing on themselves). Fortunately I was there to stop the kids from bouncing long enough for me to shoo the cat off. I imagine that a bounced cat would not be kind. We also gave my car one of its twice-annual baths. I probably wouldn’t wash it at all except that the kids so enjoy it.
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