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I have a lot of catching up to do here! I’ve been away….I know. I’ll try to be better these next 4 weeks, honest. Please don’t give up on me!

Session 1 of my official tenure as acting & musical theatre faculty at camp in Michigan ended on Friday for me, followed by a glorious weekend back home in Cincinnati on Saturday and Monday with lots of family, food, and great fun, then a whirlwind trip to New York and back on Sunday, an unfortunate cold that decided to tag along for the entire trip, and it all ended with my looooong drive back up to Michigan Tuesday afternoon. I do plan to recap everything over the next few days, with tons of photos, before session 2 of camp gets too busy, but for now I’ll start with this while I catch up my severe lack of sleep:

Do you remember these sweet, tiny craybies…mere specs of future crays, lost in the depths of enormous gravel and a sea of water? So sweet! So tiny!

I remember those sweet, tiny babes too. Which is why I was absolutely beside myself with disbelief to come home on Friday night to these porkchops.

Total porkchops.

I realize they’re about 2.5 months old now, but is it really fair for our babies to be so big already?

Aren’t they beautiful? Looking more and more like their pretty mama every day!

Little Mav’s, those craybs. What a legacy!

They’re so great, we love everything about them! But as of next weekend, 12 of our original 16 craybies will have found a loving home at Monfort Aquarium, 2 will be joining my sister in Chicago, and two – GiGi and Ace – will remain with us.

Can you believe how big and blue they’ve gotten?

I am so proud of these little champs!

P.S. We’ve also added an adorable, teeny tiny little brown and yellow snail to our brood – he came home, quite unexpectedly, on an aquatic plant we’d gotten for the crays to chow on. He’s a very welcome surprise! :)