Thursday, February 11, 2016

Things and Happenings in the Inbetween


Shenanigans have been afoot. I haven't been too wonderful at photographing all the fun, but fun was had nonetheless.

The Natural History Museum's home education day!







What's in there Emie?
Writing down his most memorable weather event.


Native American sun and moon masks.

Constellation chart.

Properly placing all the parts of a cell.

The girls were pretty excited when I told them their Grandpa Jack and Donna have wolf dogs at their home in Montana. I think a visit is in the near future!

"Mom! So many ants!!"


Matching DNA


All things electronic get noticed...

...Like this interactive model of the earth.

Playing in the sand/water table that demonstrates how water helps create the landscapes in our world.

The Queen of Rock Mountain!

The Princess!

Plate tectonics!

Excavating a Native American dwelling!



Putting pots back together.


Digging up dinosaur bones!




There are buttons you can push that recreate smells. This one is decomposing flowers.

This one is decomposing dinosaur. It smelled AWFUL and Emie just kept pushing it over and over until we were forced to leave the area because of the stench!

Time to play with some dinosaurs!



The boys caught up with us in time to play with the magnetic 3D geometric building blocks.







We also had a Valentines Day party with the Little's Co-op.







Finally, today the girls were stir crazy so we drove out to Thanksgiving Pointe to the Museum of Natural Curiosity! It is probably my favorite children's museum ever.

Climb!



I was so proud of Dot. She was really nervous about climbing up the rope bridges by herself at first but by the end she was loving it!


On the plane!

Testing to see if she can hang as long as a sloth!




Playing at the market with another little girl.

Heartbeat.




Building.
Practicing veterinary skills.

X-ray's included.

Skiing on the green screen!

She's magic!



Blowing giant bubbles in the laundromat

The finale was a duet dance performance!
So, we've been missing here because we've been out in the world. I'm going to do my best to take more pictures and keep up here again!

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Absent.

I've been missing for a couple months. The winter months bring hibernation and a case of the seasonal sads. I also attended two births and being on call makes getting out and about difficult.

We've still been living a beautiful life and learning and loving and playing and growing.

We made a trip to North Carolina for 13 days to visit my mom, grandmother, and my sister and her family. It was so nice to spend time with family. Traveling can be stressful and after a long trip we were all happy to get home and back to our usual non-routine routine.

Alex got a guitar from his grandma when we got home so he's excited to start learning how to play that along with piano.

Cassidy is learning to code Java and how to get his Raspberry Pi up and running with Linux. He's still totally in to the Alien movie series and sci-fi in general.

Emie is having fun learning letter sounds and sounding out short words. She's trying out Tae Kwon Do tonight. She still loves painting and coloring and writing her name and other letters.

Dot is learning colors and shapes. Letters and numbers. She likes dancing, music, babies, and doodling.

I'm missing nature a lot lately so I'm hoping to get the kids out in to it soon to fix it.

I hope everyone's holidays were shiny and bright and full of joy!

I'll be back soon with more of our shenanigans!

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Living Planet Aquarium 11/10/15

We go to the aquarium fairly often because we have a membership, but I don't take photos there often anymore. This time we took Callie, my niece, and met up with friends so I brought my camera along.

(A side note about memberships: Our memberships make it possible for us to visit favorite locations often, which would be impossible to afford without them. It's my favorite thing to ask for when family asks what the kids need during the gift giving holidays.)

Photos!


Electric eel! There's a little touch pad that sends a shock of electricity through your fingers to show you what the eel's electricity feels like!


Comparing themselves to an anaconda.

Looking at the actual anaconda.

This guy looks like a flattened turtle with a shovel for a head... so neat!

Cass and Callie reading about shovel turtle (Not it's real name)


Amazon Giants!! My favorite!




Emie loves the rope bridge.


Gah... my kids...



This little guy is carrying a tadpole on his back to help it survive!


Callie's favorites!



Accidental selfie.



Toddler tunnels....
...or Callie tunnels.

Actual size of a Leatherback Sea Turtle.


Callie's favorite fish this trip.






What a fun day!