3 1/2 Time Outs Tuesday – Lucky # 13

Summer has almost arrived at our house, and with it comes the annual tiny toad invasion.  At this moment, five of my children are scouring the back yard looking for them.  They’re little guys, no bigger than a quarter, but there are a lot of them.  As in even the Bible people would be saying “Wow.  That’s a lot of toads.”  The last report brought to me by my 5 year old was that they’d caught 16 this morning.  yippee.

It will make for a bloodbath come Saturday’s lawn mowing.  The toads may be tiny, and they may be cute, but they aren’t smart enough to get out of the way of a weed eater.  We may need therapy by August.

Know what tiny toads bring with them?  Things that eat tiny toads…..like snakes.

Sunday morning, there was a 2 footer on our back patio.  Thank goodness #2 is a boy scout.  He looked at our visitor and said “He’s not venomous.  His head isn’t triangular.  Also mom, he’s dead.  Snakes don’t lie on their backs.”  Hooray!

Something killed that snake.

#7 is no joke crawling at 5 1/2 months old, and when she can get hold of her dad to pull herself up, she’s standing.  We’re