Saturday: Treated to Science North as a Raciszabihussicots Clan by Patriarch.
chain o kids
Science North was sooo interesting on the way in, we could've spent all day with the parabolic echo wall, locker room, bunnies and chickies, water fall, and plastic practice milking cow (with functioning milkable teats)!
black chickie and kid cluster - only one kid isn't ours. can you tell which one?
Sage pats the bunny. Can you pat the bunny?
Interesting caves lead us to the exhibits.
Promo for Uncle Ron's 3-D movie which unfortunately we couldn't work into the schedule.
Grampa investigating the tiny play-cave.
Twinsies running into the tiny play-cave. It's only as big as you can see there.
examining horns and antlers
Hayden said "This is the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built." when we got to the rat exhibit.
Snap Snap! This one's for you, Delbert. May you rest in peace.
Mindi, concentrate on Sage's uber-cute expression and don't read what's next!! While we were examining this milk snake, an employee came by and said that this little guy was lost within the center for a month because he escaped his prior habitat. Eeeeeeeeeeek.
If you bring in a piece of nature, you can trade it for what they've got in all those shelves and drawers. My dad gave Anya and Hayden little rocks to donate, and they each picked out a bunch of shells.
Sage and some dinos
Carol took this beautiful butterfly portrait.
Twins on a Butterfly Bench
And then the most hideous Easter Bunny in the entire briar patch came by to hug the children. Hayden wasn't terrorized. He wasn't even shy!
Sage would not get closer than this to the bunny, and yet he also was so intrigued that he wouldn't move away from the bunny either. He had to be carried away and he complained the whole time. Weeeird. I think the large flower on the hat was hypnotizing him.
And then I was brave enough to hold Sammy Snail's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-...-great-great grand-nephew and/or neice. This snail is clinging to a rotting piece of apple he or she had been eating for lunch when plucked from his or her habitat to be held by various people such as I. It wasn't too bad until he or she started to go forward. And then I was done.
On the way out, we stopped and touched a piece of history. Coke-a-cola sponsored photos being taken with THE Olympic Torch, which we downloaded from the website about a week later. Complete with police guard. Plus an athelete. And a really tall dude. And a winnibego.
Sunday: woke up with sore back, had Easter presents for the kids at our house. Deux parapluies et du chocolate. Not many photos of easter at our house because of my sore back making me grumpy and ibuprofin not working fast enough.
By 10am-ish we were back at my dad's and had the easter egg hunt for the kids. I'd given them bunny bags to collect the jelly-bean filled treasures.
Finding Eggs
The Official Count for fair-and-square divvying.
And since it was such a nice day, we didn't want to go back inside. We threw plastic balls all over the yard and Carol invented running-around games for the kids to play.
Put All The Red Balls Into The Yellow Hoop game
Throwing More Balls Into The Yard
Hoop Toss
Sand Garden Play
Run over there and salute the captain! now... run back here and swab the deck!
Hayden introduces The Face to a young Szabbicotian. (Is that pronounced Szabico-ee-an, or Szabicoshan? hmm)
Quick mastering of The Face
Quick mastering of The Face
And so it spreads, as The Face has tremendous appeal for young minds eager for attention...
Carol tells Stories
Note the windowsill guys. And the stuffies bookending Carol. I couldn't believe it and had to take pictures.
Kids Being Have
Hayden drew a "mushroom" on the right, and traced his hands on the left. Easel purchased from Kijiji ad for $7. 
At daycare Hayden's class made bunny ears and also washable-markered on whiskers and bunny noses. Hayden also wanted a bunny beard on his chin, to be just like Daddy.
At school Hayden's class made bunny ears which he shared with Sage, since he then had two pairs.
nuff said
Carol tells Stories
A Very Interesting Look
At one point during household nap time, Anya meticulously arranged all the toys in the playroom while Carol slept on the couch. Note the symmetry in the wooden block castle. Note the cars under the coffee table.
Note the windowsill guys. And the stuffies bookending Carol. I couldn't believe it and had to take pictures.
Kids Being Have
These are some pictures from the week before Easter that I wanted to post as well:
A cool Hayden-taken photo
Hayden drew a "mushroom" on the right, and traced his hands on the left. Easel purchased from Kijiji ad for $7. 
At daycare Hayden's class made bunny ears and also washable-markered on whiskers and bunny noses. Hayden also wanted a bunny beard on his chin, to be just like Daddy.
At school Hayden's class made bunny ears which he shared with Sage, since he then had two pairs.
whew. sorry that took so long.
1 comment:
Great post! I will pretend I did not read about the escaped snake. AWWW! DELBERT!! :D :D :D
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