out and about.....

for the last several nights we have taken walks around the neighborhood with our friends across the street and their girls. normally we end up at the playground(hardly that, it is pretty bad), but that usually ends in one or all of the kids in meltdown when its time to leave. So, last night we went to walk around the retention pond, thinking it would be quick and the kids could run and not worry about traffic. it took one hour to get around that thing because the kids LOVED running up and down the hill and S taught them how to roll down!
K loved rolling down, but always ended up rolling sideways, it was pretty funny. as much as they ran up and down that hill, K was WORE flat out. we came home, put them both in the tub(K's legs were tore up by the grass), K watch a few minutes of a movie and S put him to bed with NO protest!! it was great.
this is what we encountered on our walk, not pleasant. i like the turtles, NOT the snakes, but i guess where you have water you have snakes. that was a pretty good sized catfish and he was not gonna let anyone take it. we did see him resurface to try and get back out of the water, hopefully he did and we did not ultimately kill him for a picture:(