need....more...kitten....pics

yeah, so i'm going to become a kitty picture posting whore. so sue me.

are they not the cutest damn things you've EVER SEEN?????

anyway, just got back from a nice 10 day vacation from work with my son. we went camping in big sur, which was so much fun. except of course for the chipmunk invasion of 2006. there was an unknown bag of chips in our tent when we left the site for a while. as i was driving up, i noticed the tent heaving to and fro, and thought "what, oh what in heaven is the matter? what could make my tent move in such a manner?" chipmunks is what. the little rats ate through the netting for the window and were ransacking the tent in search of said bag of chips. my son, the man of the house, decided he would go forth and torment, and so went into the tent and proceeded to shriek like a banshee and run around the tent chasing the little varmints out. a fun time was had by all.

we then went to SF to the exploratorium, where my son had the time of his life seeing all the science type stuff. he loved it and got a put-it-together-yourself catapult, which has been hours of fun. although i'm not too happy with all the litte balls of clay catapulted hither and to in my house. i seem to be channeling shakespeare or ye olde english today, i apologize. we also went to the zoo which was fun but hot and mildly annoying, what with all the screaming children and yuppies galore. the lions and tigers and bears were the favorite all around, although the baby giraffe and the albino kangaroo were pretty cool too.

i haven't spent that much uninterrupted time with my son in a year and a half, so it was great. he's calmed down a lot after a lot of time with me, which is reinforcing my plan of homeschooling. i need to be with him more, and he definitely needs to be with me more. so, i guess i'm officially homeschooling. yay!!