My little apes

Kaden and Mia on the big elephant- Kyson didn't want to sit on it.

Kaden and Mia on the Carousel- Kyson was on the peacock bench but grandma couldn't get a pic :)

At the big cats

They're making scarey spider faces

 

 

 

On the train!

We are going to have fun getting grandma's money's worth at the zoo this year! (She bought a pass last summer) Thanks, Grana, for the fun day!

Meet the newest members of our 'homestead' Princess, Beak-Beak, and Chick-a-Dee!

New Chicks! Tiny fluff-balls

Lola loves to watch them- she protects them too.

5 weeks old

Beak-Beak

Princess and Chick-a-Dee will eat out of your hands

Mia with Princess. She asks over and over "Where's MINE?" She can't tell them apart yet.

It was a gorgeous day and the chicks first time outside.

We are hoping to be able to eat their eggs and that they will control some of the bugs out back near our garden! The kids LOVE them and it has been really fun watching them grow. We got them at about 3 weeks old and the are starting to lose their fuzz and grow feathers! Once it's warm they'll live in their coop out back. For now they're in a box in the garage with a lamp on them 24/7. (They started out in our living room but the dust and feather fuzz in the air was too much for me!)

Nana & Papa got the kids a Tree House Museum membership for Christmas and today we got to go and use it! It was the best time we've had since it wasn't a discount day it wasn't packed like usual :) And now that the kids are a little bit older they have better attention spans and really get into the themes. We are so excited to go back again and again! Now enjoy 41 pictures :)

Their favorite exhibit is the firetruck

Mia loved climbing in and out of the soft stuff

Kaden loves milking the cow

Mia with Grana <3

Cowboy Kaden- he was too cool to dress up today

Kyson is in HEAVEN with all of the dress-up at this place

Mia making chow

Kaden with Mia in the Tee-pee

Mia jumping on rocks

Mia and Kyson being good students

Kaden is the teacher- he looks good I can totally see him doing this!

Water painting- I'm doing this on the sidewalk this summer!

Mia being Red Riding Hood's Grandmother

Kyson as the big bad wolf

Kaden trying out the puppets

Mia with the chicken puppet

Mia dressed up as a "Grandpa"

In the Mongolian hut

Kaden took this- not bad!

Another artistic shot from Kaden of Mia doing the bird feathers

Mia and Kyson in "Japan" she kept picking up the shrimp and combing her hair with it- silly girl! Guess that tells you how much seafood we eat.

Pretty girl

Music room

Making art

Trying out the sword in the stone

Mia playing with the doll house- she could have spent all day here

LOVE this pic- Kaden is a good bored king- Kyson looks like a worried Prince

Maybe the crown will help?

Built the arch

Arch crumbled

Grandma and Kyson building a tower

Mia in the CUTEST bird costume ever

Kyson is the cutest lizard ever

Mia had her well-check today. Here are her stats:

Weight- 25lbs 27%
Height - 35in 80%
Head 18 3/4in 54%

She is still tall and skinny. Dr. Eberhardt joked that soon she'd be taller than me :) He knows she's eating enough because she's growing like a weed...she just burns off her food with all that energy!
Her ear drum still has the scab so we're going to see an ENT to rule out anything serious- they will probably irrigate it to get a better look and double check her hearing. Her Dr. is just being cautious- he thinks it's probably fine, especially since she can hear just fine.