{pretty, funny, happy, real}: 18 August 2011

Back again this week, joining Rosie over at Like Mother, Like Daughter, 

for this week's {pretty, happy, funny, real}:

{pretty}

 Nuala, our Jersey.  I do think that Jerseys are lovely.  

Here she is with her granddaughter, Fiona, and the goat, Ruthie Weedeater.  I find watching them  lying about or listening to their cowbells very pleasant.  I'm sure my blood pressure drops a few notches when I take a moment to look out at scenes like this...

{happy}

My biggest {happy} this week wasn't photographed.  Gemma had a follow-up at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Diagnostic Imaging so that they could try to find her left kidney (they were so good-they never told me that they couldn't find it six weeks ago, only that they wanted to get a better look at her kidneys and that they had trouble getting a good look at the left one!  Spared me six weeks of agony...)  Anyway, they located it.  They specialist said that she has two healthy kidneys, only that they are arranged a bit differently, with both of them being pretty much on the right side and connected by a bridge.  He said that it shouldn't cause her any problems.  And that makes me very {happy} indeed.  

Easy summer lunches make me happy.

Painting outdoors makes him happy.

The guy in the white shirt wiping peanut butter off his fingers?  I'm married to him.  It is his birthday today, and later he will be wiping chocolate peanut-butter cheesecake off his lips!

{funny}

You know those biodegradable packing peanuts?  The ones that stick together when you lick them?  This is what Sebastian and Gabriel did with a box of them.  Yes, it kept them busy for about 45 minutes, but is it art?

{real}

Dominic usually talks a blue streak--and laughs, and sings, and shouts--in the van.  Then from one moment to the next he is quiet, and you look back, and he is asleep, just like that.

Sebastian found this tiny skull and thought it to be that of a mouse, but it doesn't have really large rodent-like incisors.  I'm not sure what it is...shrew?  The detail is amazing in any case.

Well, that's it for this week!  To see more {pretty, happy, funny, real}, go visit Like Mother, Like Daughter!