Cougar Mountain Zoo

Sunday Joel and I met up again with our Kids at the Cougar Mountain Zoo. Its a very small, and not too busy zoo. I think the kids liked the animal statues more than the actual animals.

The Zoo sells cut up apples that you can feed to some of the animals. Unfortunately, neither child wanted to let the animals eat out of their hands.

"say 'Rawr!'"Bear hugs

Science Center

On Saturday morning Joel and his daughter Brynn came over and we made breakfast together. The kids were very cute sitting on the counter together helping make the waffles and smoothies. Once we were finished with breakfast we all loaded in the car and headed for the Seattle Science Center.

The kids were so cute. They are both so smart. They did act a bit like siblings as they were fighting over buttons and toys. But in general they got along pretty well.

Touching animals in the tide pool
Isn't she adorable!?
Butterfly on my shoulder
Apparently the Butterflies like the smell of our clothes
Ready for blast off

Little Si

Yesterday was a perfect day for a hike. Dry but not too warm. So after picking up Will I called my mom to see if they'd like to come with us? They agreed that it would be a fun family activity.At about the half way point I didn't think they were loving this "fun family activity"
Mickayla was great and didn't complain at all (on the way up.)
And then we finally made it too the top.It was a good time. Hopefully we'll do it again soon.

Ice Cream Maker

On Monday our new Ice Cream Maker arrived. Last night Will and I made our first batch. Since Ann and Keith are pros at the homemade ice cream thing we took Keith's suggestion and made Heath Bar Crunch.

Will sat anxiously and watched the ice cream thicken.
He also helped me break up the heath bars into mixable size.
The ice cream was delicious and we even brought some over to the neighbors so we could bribe them into being our friends.

Hmmm I wonder what kind will be next. I will definitely consult my buddies Ben and Jerry.

How to Train a Dragon 3D

This last weekend I took Will and Mickayla to How to Train Your Dragon 3D. It was a cute movie, and well worth seeing.
I especially loved the "one size fits all" 3D glasses. They were huge on me, and monstrous on Will.
Will doesn't quite get the concept of being quiet since we are in a theater full of people. There were a few times that he yelled out things like "Mom, we're in the water" since the 3D glasses made it look as though the water was all around us.

Patio Garden

Last weekend Will, Dan and I were on a mission to create a patio garden. We dont really know much of anything about gardening but thought, "how hard can it be?" I had done a little reading, but really we figured we'd figure it out as we went along.

First stop was Home Depot. We bought some planter boxes, pebbles for the bottom, and gardening soil to fill it up. They didn't have that great of options as far as things to plant so we decided we needed to go to a nursery.

We searched on our phones for a nursery in Issaquah and found Squak Mountain Nursery. I think we spent the first 20 minutes just roaming around looking at everything and enjoying the warmth of the greenhouse. Then we finally asked someone for help. It was very apparent that we didn't know anything about gardening. We were told that most of the vegetables that we wanted to plant should not be planted until May.

We picked up some snap pea seeds and onion starts, which we were told we could plant now, but decided we'd have to come back in May for the rest of our veggies. We decided that we'd get enough flowers for a few planters. Will was the master mind behind which flowers were chosen. We aimed him towards the part shade (since our deck only gets sun the first half of the day) and let him loose.

We had fun planting all of the flowers the next morning. We are anxious to see sprouts come up from the few veggies we've planted so far, and also anxious to go get our other veggies in a month or 2.

(hopefully something will grow.... especially given the amount of money it cost to make this little patio garden.)

Laundry

Last night on our way home I told Will that after dinner I needed him to help me with some chores. I told him he could pick what he wanted to help with. Of course he wanted to do the bath tub and the toilets, but he also said he was going to fold the laundry all by himself. I knew that he wouldn't be able to fold it just how I like it done, but since I hate folding laundry I decided I could be ok with that. I left him with the load of laundry and went to do other chores. Every minute or so he'd come running over to where I was and would say "I found your underpants!" while waving around a pair of underwear. I'd send him back to continue to fold. After a few of these underpants run-ins he told me that he was all done. I went to check how it went and this is what I found.
For now I think I'll have him stick with bath tubs and toilets.