Yesterday Accalia was playing with the kitchen set we picked up for 10 cents at a garage sale and her pretend food. She asked me to join in, so we went back and forth asking each other what we wanted to eat and then cooking it. Then Accalia crawled into the oven part, asked me to close the doors and turn on the oven to cook her. LOL! I told her to tell me when she was done, and when she was she would ask me to eat her.

I've had trouble the last couple days getting really motivated to do a lot of physical stuff because it's been so muggy. Definitely doesn't feel like April in South Dakota. This weather has given me a chance to learn that Cole is a very sweaty child. He's also crawling around like crazy and all over everything. Accalia was lying in her bean bag and Cole just climbed right over her. And then Accalia and I were sitting on the stairs reading and Cole climbed up the first step.

Accalia and I had an opportunity to talk about homeless people today. We were out front drawing with sidewalk chalk and then Accalia ran in the back to her swing set. The swing set is just a few feet from our shed/garage, which is right by the alley. I happened to glance by the back of the alley and saw a pair of feet sticking out. I was too chicken to go back there and actually see the rest of the body because I really didn't want to discover a dead person there. I could tell that it was one of the homeless people that regularly walks through our alley and around the neighborhood, so I also figured he might just be sleeping or resting. At any rate, I called the police just to come and check it out, and an officer did come and had the man and the woman he was with move along. I'm assuming the man was drunk because he could barely walk, and I've seen him walking perfectly well before. There was also a woman with him. I kind of felt bad about calling the police and disrupting them because they're perfectly harmless from what I've seen. But at the same time I don't want people hanging out on our property if they're not invited, you know?

Anyway, Accalia and I just talked a little about who homeless people are and why I called the police and what we can do to help. Accalia was most interested in going outside to see them and talking about our big house, but we decided that may not be the best thing at the moment.