Dose of Dickerson Dashcam

It has been almost two months since the last update on Bob and the Girls.  Well, honestly, my phone has changed my world.  At one time, I had to actually get on the computer to check my email, check facebook, pay bills, etc.  Now, I can do all of those things on my phone.  However, blogspot and iphone don't seem to work so well together.  I know, I can go to the Internet and do anything, but I was really hoping for some awesome app to make updates simple.  Anyone looking to get rich?  Create one for me.  I'll pay up to about $4.99. 

Here's what we've been doing since the Dash update...

• Vickey and her kids visited from Arkansas
• Kennedy and Taylor had their first trip to Six Flags
• Chad and I enjoyed the Fifth installment of Dickerson, Henry, Lee @ the BEACH
• Kennedy loved Pine Cove this year instead of just survived
• Taylor experienced her first week of summer camp at Pine Cove
• Blake FINALLY got over molluscum after buckets of tears (this deserves and entire post)
• Six month anniversary of my Uncle Jimmy missing
• First day of school for 4th grade, 2nd grade, and 2 year old class
• We bought the last package of diapers for the Dickerson house (and I'm a little sad)
• Kennedy started soccer
• Taylor had a birthday (7 years old)
• I had a birthday (older than 7 years old)
• Mimi and Pops celebrated 36 years of marriage...and moved into the new house
• Chad let the biggest catfish I've ever seen in person get away
• Taylor found a snake "in the house" but it was actually against the threshold trying to get in the house

Since we're old friends, we can just pick right back up like it hasn't been months since we've visited.  So, last week on facebook I commented that if I had a dashcam, our lives could be a reality show.  I'll never install a dashcam, but here's a peak...

Kennedy and Taylor were asking about Dash having puppies.

Kennedy (K): How old does Dash have to be before she has puppies?
Shannon (S):  Dash isn't going to have puppies.
Taylor (T):  Why not?
S: Because we are going to take her to the vet in another month and have her spayed, which is a surgery so that she can't have puppies.
T: What if she is already pregnant?
S:  She isn't.  It takes a boy dog and a girl dog to make puppies.  And she hasn't been around any boy dogs.
K: (Apparently making the connection to our prior conversations regarding reproduction) Taylor, you're too little to understand, but when you get a LOT older Mom will tell you about it too.
T:  OK, but why can't Dash just have puppies ONE time?

The conversation continues on about taking care of puppies and the complications with small dogs giving birth, etc.  We also addressed the fact that you have to be able to find homes for puppies.  And then...

K: If we can't find homes, then we just take them to the animal shelter.
S:  Well, they are just going to kill them.  Why would you want to do that?
K: WHAT?
S:  It takes money to feed, water, and care for animals.  The animal shelter here is a temporary home, but if no one adopts the animals, they eventually kill them because they can't afford to care for them.
K:  So, why exactly do they call it an animal shelter?
S:  Well, umm, hmm...ask Pa!

I've trained my kids to spot Corvettes on the road.  On a recent trip to Tyler, we saw a pretty one.  Just hours before, I was trying to calm Kennedy's anxiousness about being tardy for school by saying that I would eat a worm if she was late. 

T: Momma!  There's a Corvette!
K:  Momma, would you eat 3 worms for a Corvette?
S:  I would eat 3 bowls of worms for a Corvette.
K: Eww.  What would you really do for a Corvette?
S:  I would do a lot of things.  I would give up one of my daughters for a Corvette.
K:  Momma!  No you would not!
S:  (jokingly) Well, it depends on how pretty it is.
T:  (Raising her hand and bouncing in the back seat) I'm the ugly one!
After explaining that I was joking about how pretty the car had to be, Taylor changed her mind and said, "Oh, well, I'm not really the ugly one."