I am a bug person!

Let me preface this by saying i am a bug person. I am the person that captures and saves spiders and frees them to the outside. My uncle is a herpatologist. I grew up playing with newts, and snakes, and other creepy things. I am a bug person.

Until i came face to face with this:

Here is the aerial view:

This is taken from my i phone so let me point out: It is as thick as my pinkie and probably half as long, it has two huge eyes on the head, it has a mouth that you can see, the mouth has two pincers/fangs. The eyes are looking at me. And it looks hungry and mean and dangerous

I am a bug person and this one made me scream. i was cleaning, moved a blanket, and saw it - we came face to face. It was HUGE and dangerous looking, and based on size i thought it was fast. fortunatly it was not fast. But that did not negate the scariness of it.

My husband was out playing poker and this bug and i and my son were home. I almost made him come home to check out this bug and have him decide if it was deadly. It was that scary. Remember that i am the bug person in this relatioship. Instead i kept the bug in prison with frequent security checks. This bug although HUGE was not fast or strong. We sruvived us three, until my mother in law came home to declare it a harmless potato bug.

I take her word for it......but it is still scary. But should i come face to face with a huge fanged potato bug again i will take him outside. I will be the potato bug person next time - but i won't like it!

Our First Holiday

When Mason had just been born on one of our first outings we saw costunes....and with the excitment that only new parents can have about dressing kids up in stupid costumes before they have an opionon to fight otherwise, we bought this little monster costume...poor kid! He started out growing it before Halloween hit, so we had to dress him up and snap some shots of him! As he started moving his hands those little monster hands moved up, and was just too cute!

Apparanlty not only parents buy ridiculous outfits...this one is from grandma Bonnie. At 10 weeks he looks like a stuffed sausage in this halloween outfit - 100% purely breast fed huge baby. ...mini version of fat man in a little coat. The onesie has feet, and socks over it - not pictured were the shoes that came with the halloween hat that would not stay on the feet. We were laughing at the number of layers and ill fitting outfit - and our laughing never ceases to make him happy. It is amazing that our joy can become his. But, we had to take the outfit off right away because it just did not fit at all.

Here is the final version of Halloween.... Kurt obviously got to pick the theme. I am princess Leia, Kurt is Han Solo, and Mason is a tiny chewbaca! What a cute little star wars loving family we have become. This is probably our last Halloween that we get to choose his costume - in the course of this next year he will change so much. He will learn to walk, to eat, to talk. He will become more of my little man each day, and less like my baby boy.