The Ozmerican Life

Nathan seems to have a knack for finding creepy crawly things.

Years back, while in house building process...

"Hey Mom, you should see the mouse Daddy smashed in the wall! There's blood everywhere!"

And yet another time, "Mom, Daddy tomped a mouse dead in the garage!" (Jentzen still doesn't think the "s" at the beginning of words is necessary.)

This particular weekend at the cabin it was this...
We let kids handle live snakes. We'd figure we'd let them practice here with the harmless ones in case we're ever stranded in the Outback and all the deadly ones come to get us and Nathan and I are both screaming frantically and the kids need to save us. We're thinkers aren't we!
Quaid was going a fine job. He had the skill conquered...so we thought we'd let Keira have a go because she will, afterall, be right next to my side until the end...isn't that the youngest child's job? I asked her if she will never leave me and she said yes.
Pretty talented hey? She is after all half Outbackian.
She became rather unimpressed with it pretty quickly. Where's the challenge she said.
What a little show off.