Wild wild waves and Mosquitos in Miami

A visits to our house but nothing new, just a different angle :-)

A hurricane out at sea created big waves so Marlee went out with some friends. He is on the outer wave. 

We made a trip to Miami a couple of weeks ago. Mainly to enjoy the ocean and catch lobsters. We caught several!!

We also made a day trip to Key West. The weather was not great but it is always beautiful down there.

Back in Miami and we had an adventure that I wish we had on video. We had packed hotdogs and snacks to go barbecuing on Boca Chita. We arrived and some kids jumped off to tie up the boat. That is when we realized we were attacked by an unlimited amount of mosquitos. Never ever had I experienced something like that before. I was holding Maria and was just waving my hands around her to get the mosquitos away. When slapping by arm I would kill five mosquitos in one go, it was horrible!! We yelled at the kids in panic to get back in the boat so we could leave. As soon as everyone was safely back in the boat we quickly left the island, still waving and killing mosquitos. When we could finally slow down and get in the water to ease our itchy skin there were dead mosquitoes everywhere in the boat! Some of the boys’ back looked so bad from bites! It was truly as taken from a horror movie. 

There was no way we would be able to grill the hotdogs now and we were getting hungry so we decided we had to eat them raw, just like I used to do as a kid. Raw hotdogs are better than no hotdogs!

Happy faces before the mosquito experience…

Mosquito bitten backs!

Noah 13 years old!!! And a squirrel story with a happy ending :-)

One more teenager in the house!!! It is hard to believe but Noah turned 13 August 29!! He wanted friends over so thst is what he got. Some slept over ao the party lasted for two days :)

Morning celebrations. He had asked for two donuts for breakfast.

Later the friends came over.

Water balloon fight

Somw did not want to join the water balloon fight so they hang out with Maria. She is so popular, even with the boys!

The next day we went to the beach with the boys who spent the night.

Noah had a great birthday and kept telling me how good it was ❤️

So what about the happy-ending-squirrel-story… well, when it was time to take the boys home we found a baby squirrel by our be the neighbor’s trees. As we were in a rush we put the baby squirrel in a box to protect it and headed out. When we got back we googled what to do with it and looked for local refuges where they would take it. We found nothing but that you should NOT take it but leave it for at least a few hours as the mom is likely going to come back to get it. So we put the baby squirrel back (always using gloves not to touch it). We read that the mom would hear it making noise and come. However the baby stayed quiet, even though we knew it could make noise as it did when we moved it, so no squirrel mom showed up… Ww googled a little more and found out you could find the noise on YouTube so we did. I put my phone next to the baby and turned on the squirrel sound. It took less than five minutes before the mom showed up!!! She was messing with the baby for a few minutes and then grabbed it woth her teeth and carried it up the palm tree. The best ending ever!!! I didn’t have to take care of it and worry about accidentally killing it and the mom got her baby back. The boys would probably have preferred to keep it but this was the best ending ever. 

 

Swedish cinnamon buns!

Noah wanted to make Swedish cinnamon buns his for his birthday so we defrosted some of the frozen fresh yeast and made the dough. Surprisingly all the boys wanted to bake when it was time to make the “bullar”, probably so they could eat a lot of dough :-) They all did a great job. I was especially impressed by David who insisted to do so them by himself and they turned out beautifully! 

Silly boys on the couch!