Family-a-go-go

Yowza, but we've been traveling for days.

Up to Alpena for a far too brief tet-a-tet with Aunt Heathyr, Uncle Colin, Cousin Eleanore, and the Grandparents Lamb.

And Rigby! Don't forget Rigby!

We had great fun sledding and carrying about with Julian.

Rigby Rigby Rigby!

Oh, yeah, and Eleanore's corgi - What was his name?

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

There were great presents and gifts from everyone. We had a really good time.

From Alpena (I'll miss you, Rigby), it was off to Midland. Land of snow, toboggans, and sauerkraut balls (we don't know what they are, Dad told us to add that). We got to spend time with Aunt Julie, Uncle Nick, Cousins Aria & Aidric, Jubba, and Grandma Stanley. We attended a lovely evening service and then quickly to bed so that we were well rested for Christmas morning.

We were forced to wait until everyone had cinnamon rolls, then the gifts!

ohwowigotakitchenwoohoo!!!!!!

We got books (kitchen!), toys (kitchen!), and a robotic dinosaur (kitchen!). So many gifts - so much to be thankful for.

HAPPY YULE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Huh - well who put that there?

So leaving the museum after dinosaurs Mom spots this piece of artwork just sitting there.

Okay maybe not sitting there - she said it was part of the DIA's anniversary celebration.

Well... it was still pretty cool - now to hunt up some more!

This site will tell you more about it and give you some locations.

https://sites.google.com/site/diainsideout/

Oh and on the way home, we saw SOLAR FLARES! Okay so it was actually reflections from satellites.

Dinosaurs sweet dinosaurs...welcome back!

Woohoo! So Evie and I finally got to go to the new dinosaur exhibit at the Cranbrook Museum of Science. Dinosaurs: Land, air and sea!

http://science.cranbrook.edu/

It was cool and spoooooky! So we went and saw the little play area first - till evie got comfortable with the noise. She's a baby so it takes her longer.

Mommy was impressed, I could immediately pick out the Dromaeosaurus, Protoceratops, Allosaurus and Elasmosaurus, velociraptor and some others. Then there were a bunch I hadn't heard off, like this one thats related to the dromaeosaurus but not its a bambi...saurus thingy.

Anyway it was really cool and we didn't have enough time (we went after school and only had an hour). We are harrassing mom to go back.

Dinosaurs!

We were all ROAR and they were all Roar and there were other ids and then BOOM ex- exc-all gone then more and they are really cool!

Not posting much lately

Gosh, I just realized we haven't been going anywhere recently. Well, not physically anyway.Or even posting much.

But Evie and I have been traveling lots by book and little pirate ship.

Well we were just at our grandma and Juba Stanley and they gave us a globe. (Though daddy keeps pointing out that some of the places on it have changed names now). So the other day we traveled to Hawaii and to different places in Michigan. Though its lots harder to find a good playground on a globe than it is in real life.

vie and I have been traveling lots by book and little pirate ship.

Well we were just at our grandma and Juba Stanley and they gave us a globe. (Though daddy keeps pointing out that some of the places on it have changed names now). So the other day we traveled to Hawaii and to different places in Michigan. Though its lots harder to find a good playground on a globe than it is in real life.

Busy busy

Well the weekend is off to a whirlwind start. With all of us going to a volunteer appreciation playdate at Oakland County parks. It was very cool, there were games, and food and caramel apples and then the puppets (which gave mom and dad lots of ideas for a puppet theatre in the basement. And of course I'm going to need more puppets).

Birds!

Right bird puppets of course (they had one that was a nest with little baby birds) they were so Cute. And of course mommy bird and the opossum was cool with her baby and the spider (it was the spider's birthday). The chipmunk kept going to sleep in the other animals nests so he wasn't as fun.

Kayak! Mommy took me kayaking and I got to steer and help paddle and scream when we got too far from shore. There isn't anything to see in the middle of the lake.

I got to toast marshmallows and so did Sloan. But I liked the kayaking and the caramel apples... yum!

Yawn... off to bed now.

Oh wait! The starlab.... we didn't talk about that. This dome where it gets dark and you sit in it and the stars come on and sometimes they have designs drawn (so like an eagle and bear) and it was really cool! Except when it was too dark and I couldn't see anything, I didn't like that very well. Okay Bye

Whistle, whistle I wish I knew how to whistle

Two teeth!

I've lost two teeth!

Now I whistle when I say certain words and its fun to show the boys and girls.

This is so cool I lost the first tooth the thursday before school started and on saturday I lost the second one. Daddy said yesterday that I'm beginning to develop the two teeth missin whistlin... so I say ttttthhhhhwwweeet!

Camping!

1. cool campsite in Addison Oaks (a very cool campground at Oakland County Parks)

2. Friends to camp with

3. Fresh apples, cheese, marshmallows and fire

4. one lost tooth (my second in a few weeks)

5. Ghost stories and games of tag (with and without flashlights)

6. Rain rain and lots of rain

7. Having fun with nature

8. Finding lots of treasure! (Or Schatz in german) oh and by treasure - I mean we found geocache's

9. Setting our own geocache up

10. Best weekend!