Carpenters, Butterflies, and mishaps

April has been a well-rounded month for us at the Nutt House full of adventures of all sorts.

Kara is starting to get old enough to enjoy the project days available at local hardware stores, so earlier this month she attended her second project day at Home Depot.  She had a blast making her bird feeder.  That little feeder has attracted several birds and has worked better than I thought it would.  Now, poor Pixie is not just tempted by the unobtainable George but has birds taunting her – in her own backyard!

 

Not to be outdone, Kaden has started playing with his little handyman kit and can pound his hammer away with the best of them.

One gorgeous April day earlier this month we were fortunate to have Brent home with us. We didn’t want to miss out on this wonderful day so we took off and headed to the Botanical Gardens, home of the butterfly pavilion.  The gardens were enchanting as I always find them, full of the life and the vibrancy that spring brings.  It’s amazing, when I think of gardens I think of vegetables or flowers, most of these gardens though are desert and the beauty that can be found in the cacti and other desert plants can be truly remarkable.  We’ve only been going to the gardens since this past fall, which means we’ve never seen the butterfly pavilion in the spring time.  The butterflies in the fall are all monarchs and there are so many of them there is hardly a surface that doesn’t have butterflies covering it.  I excepted the same thing when we saw the butterflies earlier this month, but I was wrong.  There were more varieties of butterflies than I knew existed.  There weren’t as many butterflies, but those that were there were breathtaking in their beauty. 

As beautiful as the butterflies were, watching Kara and Brent enjoy the butterflies together brought more joy to me than the butterflies themselves. 

Our month would not be a typical month at the Nutt House without some chaos and mishaps.  Kaden has taken to crawling on anything and everything he possibly can.  While he enjoys this immensely, it does not always end like he would like it to.  Kara has a little chair made out of PVC pipes that her Grandpa Lang made for her.  Kaden loves climbing in her little chair, well, one day, the chair tried to fight back and say enough is enough with the climbing.  The result was absolutely priceless.

With this, I am happy to say that our Nutty adventures are all caught up.  We cannot wait to share with each of you on a more real time basis the escapades of our Nutty lives!