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Ok, so I keep forgetting about that little painting video...I promise tonight I will post it.

While I was still pregnant with Katherine, I think even BEFORE I got pregnant I laid down the law. At no time will fake snakes, spiders and the like be allowed in our house. Not only that it is not a funny prank to surprise Mommy with one either. I can't stand the stuff. So yesterday when we picked her up from daycare, what were they doing? Digging around in a bin of various types of rubber snakes, bugs, frogs, etc... Katherine came running up to me with a handful of snakes..."Look Mommy snakes! SSSSSSSS!" Ewwww, I didn't even want to touch them (and yes I am shuddering just at the though right now). K. however was fascinated, pulling her away took a little bit of time.

Speaking of snakes, they are more common around these parts. Although I have been truly lucky never to have encountered one in our yard or out on walks etc...that is a live one (yes I have once or twice driven by a big black one slithering down the road....ewwww). Two days ago my coworker Stephanie and I were out for our lunchtime run when she spotted a dead (very dead) snake in our path. Not huge but bigger than this Yankee is used to, about the width and length of a broom handle. I, of course, when to the other side of the road, dead or not I wasn't going near it. Stephanie, on the other hand, being a native, wanted to check it out to see what kind of snake it was, i.e. whether it was a "good" snake or a "bad" snake (really, is there any other type but bad?). She grabbed a stick to poke at it a little, turns out "just" a black snake (as opposed to it having some color on it, meaning not only was it a snake but a poisonous snake to boot). I stayed a good 10 feet away. I'm told that the reason we haven't seen any snakes around our yard is because we have a cat, our neighbor has 4 cats and our other neighbor has 3 dogs. Supposedly they hate cats and the dogs just add an extra layer of protection (not to mention the highway just past the back of our property). Plus the cats keep the mice away so there's no food. If that's the case, trust me, I will always be surrounded by furry little felines as long as I'm living here.