ew ew ewwwww

The weather is starting to cool off and I've been having visions of opening up the apartment windows to let in some fresh air. Yesterday afternoon, I went into our bedroom, pulled up the blinds, and saw....


WASPS! Icky, yucky wasps completely covering a nest they'd managed to build between the screen and the glass. They were crawling all over each other in layers; more wasps than I'd ever seen in one place before. Guess that's one window that won't be opened anytime soon.

I'm starting to understand why people say parenting is hard in a different way once kids are old enough to ask questions ad actually understand things. I tried to impress Tristan with the fact that wasps can hurt us, but there is a fine line between "we should stay away from them so that we don't get stung" and "oh my goodness, we should be constantly paralyzed with fear". This theme has come up a few times in the past weeks; a bit ago, we saw a snake (a water moccasin!) in the drainage creek near our home. He seemed pretty scared for a while afterwards, but he hasn't mentioned wasps (or "bees", as he calls them) today, so I don't think he's unduly worried.

Oh! And good news, mamas out there----remember the to-do back in June about the diaper fetish site that was stealing photos of cloth diapered babies? The guy was finally arrested, along with one mom who was exploiting her kids. It was the CD AP community that brought the site and situation to the FBI's attention, so yayyy for concerned mamas.