Wood Worker

Hi everyone,

So, remember when I posted about Dad’s birthday a few days ago? Well, his birthday fell on a Saturday so we took advantage of going to the local hardware store for the kids’ workshop. I got to work with him to build a wooden race car. It was pretty fun getting to swing a hammer and construct a car that is similar to a pinewood derby car. I thought the goggles were pretty stylin’ but I’m still waiting for my work apron.

 

 

Until next time . . .

Dad's Birthday

Hi everyone,

It is the end of March. I am posting pictures of Dad’s birthday. Dad’s birthday was at the beginning of March. I know you can see the logical thought that it is a little late, but better late than never, right?

And the reason why I am posting these pictures so much past his birthday is a little rabbit trail I’m going to take you on right now. You see back about 9 months ago Mom had a birthday. It was what we call her big birthday (once every 5 years) where she gets a sum of money to spend as she would like. She was originally going to get a massage on the 24^th of every month to spread her birthday gift out but then Dad retired and we decided to tighten the old budget reigns. You probably don’t really care to know all these little details, do you? Anyway, this is the month that Mom decided to finally spend her birthday money. And what did she decide to spend it on, you ask? Well it wasn’t a massage, but a new camera. Only she really didn’t want to spend an arm and a leg on a brand new camera so she scoured the local listings to find a gently used camera of the type she was looking for. And I am happy to say that she found it! Now comes learning how to use it, including downloading the pictures that she took way back on March 5^th. I am also happy to say that she is finally getting some time to play around with her camera which includes the ability of me sharing these photos with you.

So . . .  back to Dad’s birthday. It was a pretty low key event. We stuck around the house the whole weekend, used a gift card to rent some movies, and had yummy food. I helped him unwrap his gifts because I was so excited to show him what we got him! The bad thing is that we didn’t even get a picture of him with his cake or blowing out his candles. I know, bummer, huh.

Birthday cake minus the candles!

Until next time . . . (And I actually have some blog fodder so my postings will be closer together for a while! Yah for that!)

Children's Museum

Hi everyone,

Where in the world can you ride on an airplane, fire truck, and transit bus all on the same day while driving a train, playing in the water, building a wall, and running around all crazy? Yep, you guessed correctly, the children's museum. I'm sure my title had nothing to do with the fact that you guessed it right on the first try.

We had so much fun that we decided to buy a pass for the year so that we could go back any old time we wanted to. There is so much to do at this museum, three floors packed with all kinds of activities. As I'm sure you could have already guessed though I tend to gravitate toward the giant train table. This time though I didn't spend all my time there. I actually took the initiative to try out other areas while wandering back to the train table on little jaunts here and there.

 

We even got to go out on the roof and down to the basement to play! It was fun but I definitely slept well when I got home!

 

Until next time . . .

Skating and the Limbo

Hi everyone,

You probably thought I was done with blogging, huh, since it's been so long since my last post. Nope, not done, just still nothing super exciting happening around here.

We did go skating recently. This was the first time that I was really able to play limbo in my skates and do the hokey pokey. It was fun!

 Can you see my fishy lips? I twist my lips all up when I'm concentrating real hard.

Lining up to the bar . . . wait, what's that baby doing there?

Crouching down low . . .

Look at those fishy lips again! So proud of making it under without touching!

Until later . . .