We found this little tree frog hiding up under our patio umbrella this morning trying hard not to be noticed. It was soooooooooooo nice out this morning! Dare I even say cooler (shhhhhhhhhh) the YUCK will come back! We spent the morning out on the patio enjoying the cooler weather and playing with the boys and our pups. With Charles off on Fridays, it's the perfect time to get our errand running done before the weekend. We spent the whole day in St. Louis yesterday taking care of errands and then went by my folks house and took them out to the Olive Garden for dinner. Unfortunately we don't get to see Grandpa and Grandma as often as we'd like so it was a real treat for us and the boys. Before we left St. Louis we took the boys to PetsMart to shop for some fish and toys for their new baby rats. Wow! Those toys are expensive!!! I remembered I had all kinds of wooden craft shapes at home and told the boys we were smart enough to make our own. So today we spent the day drilling holes, stringing shapes, building a ladder out of Popsicle sticks and making an obstacle course fit for two spoiled babies. We even had a good sized dried gourd we hollowed out and hung for a hide away. We have a few friends with little critters and may make some of the toys we created today as gifts for them. My mom was kind enough to hit a sale at Petco for us a few days ago and pick up a 40 gallon tank at their 1$ a gallon sale. Ruby and Elizabeth went from a 10 gal. "studio apt." to a 40 gal. "mansion!" Those were all early birthday presents for Nathaniel. We finally got another algae eating fish for our fish tank... it was really needing it = ) and Nathaniel picked out a black loach fish to go with his golden dojo loach. The golden dojo's name is "Dojo" and the new black loaches name is "Ninja." The algae eater is "Spike Jr." and you will not see pics of them until Spike Jr. get's to work on the glass! No danger of him starving, maybe getting eaten by the goldfish grown into small whales, but not starvation. So now we have a empty 10 gallon tank... I wonder what the next resident will be?????? No telling aroud here! God Bless!Love, the Corbett Family
