What Beautiful Weather!!

this morning we got up and i was amazed to see it had rained last night! i am usually woken so easily nowadays but non last night! everything is so verdant after a storm and i love having one less thing to do in the mornings...watering the garden...a restful thing to do but all the same nice to have it done for me =) josh and esme read this morning while jack got ready to build with me =) i try and do a little something each day down at the cob site....albeit somedays it is as simple as carrying a tool down there i'll need sometime...but it still makes me feel like i am working on it. today, we put in "deadmen" on the door frames...this is what will hold the wood of the frame into the cob. anywhere we want a window or door or even shelf inside, has to have one of these naily bits of wood to hold onto it.
then we had a visit from joan!!! it was so sweet bc when jack saw her, he ran to her and yelled "joan joan, want hug!!" and gave her a great big bear hug...she is so precious to him. joan had been on a trip and brought jack a dinosaur egg! =) it has to sit in water for 48 hours and it will crack and out will hatch a dinosaur! who says they are extinct!
before lunch, the kids and i went to the grocery store and jack picked out some clothes to wear as somehow beforehand he'd covered himself in mud =) he chose one of esme's dresses!! (i think a recent gift from marybeth!) anyway, i thought he looked just fine so we went happily away...
pete is putting up the walls downstairs!! it looks great! he is so precise and good at building...i think this is why josh can just trust it all to him...it is exciting to see it coming together. (we miss you kassie!! hope you can come soon! =))
while the kids are napping, i went out and cleaned the chicken house (which actually houses not 1 but 2 roosters!! and 9 hens) and added straw to the shelves we just put in...they should start laying next month sometime...and they say 1 to 2 eggs per hen a day...we are going to have a LOT of eggs....