Update

Lennon just LOVES his Auntie Jess.  When she is around it is as if I am not here.  It's such an awesome change from the usual 'clinging to the knee' routine.  He is doing SO much better these days.  He's even been letting me go to the gym and voluntarily left my arms to go to three different friends this week.  He is playing so much more independently and really enjoys dinosaur books and anything about dogs.  He was quacking up a storm tonight in the bath and moos every time he sees a cow.

"What could this creature be?" you ask

It's a wittle baby Lennon in a puppy dog towel and Mia's bath robe that he insisted on wearing after his bath.

The kids newest game to play together is hide n go seek and it is the cutest thing ever to watch them playing together.  Lennon always squats down really low to check if Mia is under his bed and laughs hysterically whenever he finds her and then runs the other direction.  She adores him.  

We were using the rest of our apples we picked with Papa and Nana to make some delicious cinnamon apples and Mia got to use a knife for the first time to help me chop them.  She was so proud and did an awesome job.  The apples were delicious and we dubbed them 'Momma Mia apples.'

A few nights ago I went to turn down Mia's bed and found this big spider under her covers right where her legs would have been.  Shelby and I captured it and in the process accidentally cut off two of her legs.  We put her in a cleaned out baby food jar and stuck her on the counter because I was going to try to figure out what kind of spider it was so that if there were more and Mia ended up with a spider bite we would know if we should worry or not.  I know, I'm crazy.  Anyway, for about three days the spider did not move at all and we assumed it was dead.  And then suddenly yesterday the spider started scampering about inside the jar.  After a while it was clear that this was a female spider.  She had laid an obvious egg sack and spun some kind of protective stuff all around it and anytime I would pick up the jar to inspect it she would rush to the sack and cover it up like she was protecting them.  It was so sad.  This morning I sent Shelby out with the jar to open it up outside so that when they hatched they could go free and maybe that poor momma spider could survive with only six legs.  Who knows.  I didn't really find out what kind of spider it was, but we did find out that poisonous spiders are highly uncommon in Massachusetts.  That made me feel better.  For a couple nights after I found it I was terrified to put my legs down into the bed without a thorough inspection!