June 18, 2007
Hooray!
Hooray! Yesterday, Slithery ate her first mouse in 40 days! 41 days ago she ate two mice and stopped eating. Now I am not sure which way you are supposed to count the number of days because she eats once a week. The last time she ate was May 9th, but normally she would not eat until the 16th. But the good news is... she ate.
June 17, 2007
62 1/4" Tall...
Wow! I am now 62 1/4" tall! There is a picture of me that Daddy took with his apple laptop. We used his laptop because our camera broke a few months ago. Some of the pictures in my family blog we took with the office camera. That night we took 190 pictures (I took most of them), and the next day I took 248 pictured in one hour! First, I improved the quality of the picture on Picasa2 and discovered a bunch of stuff. Then I stretched it two different ways on Paint. Oh, the wonders I can do with Paint! I can do a lot of stuff with Paint. If you really, really want to know how I stretched myself on Paint, I can tell you. And if you want to know how to use Paint and Picasa really well, tell me and I can show you how. Also, our housemate, Alyssa, has a blog.
June 10, 2007
Never Thought This Would Happen...
Four words: My snake laid eggs. Not chicken eggs, Not lizard eggs, but nice, oval, infertile snake eggs. "Why did you think she was a he?" you ask. Well, for one, I thought and hoped she was a he, but that does not make any difference. Also, I have a snake book, and it said one way to know is to count the subcaudal scales (the scales beneath the tail) from the vent to where the tail starts to get narrower. It says that male corn snakes have 7-12 subcaudal scales between the two points and females have 2-4. you might not understand what I just said, but if you look it up in Google you will probably find out. There are many other reasons but I will not state them today. I found out two days ago and I started a blog yesterday but the computer messed up and erased it. She is still in the same place but not in the same position. She is in the way of me getting the rest of the eggs and does not want to be touched. Oh well.
June 4, 2007
Family Blog
Today Millie turned one and I decided that I needed to do another family blog. Here are our full names:
My full name is Benjamin Edward Thomas Cross.
Zachary’s full name is Zachariah Jefferson MacNeal Cross.
Lexi’s full name is Alexandria Elizabeth Briere Cross. (Briere (BREE-air) means Heather in French)
Millie’s full name is Melisande (MEL-a-sahnd) Hadleigh Maiya Cross. (Hadleigh (HAD-lee) means heather meadow (Maiya (MY-ah) means May in Russian)
Here are some pictures of our family:
We also have a housemate, Alyssa Johnson. Here are some pictures of her.
Millie can now stand up for 30 seconds and can get on and off our little rocking chair unassisted. If Millie and I are on the bed, and I point to the ceiling fan and say “ceiling fan”, she will say “ss”. Amazingly, she still has no teeth and we think she might be our youngest walker and oldest teether. She also can clap and say "yay".