Book Club

Ok, so my fleeting comment about starting a book club has now become a reality of life-please check out the blog at beckeebookclub.blogspot.com. Wanna join? Just let me know-we are all inclusive, and really low key! Basically just read the book if you can each month, I will set you up to be able to contribute to the blog, and you can post questions, comments, thoughts, reviews of the books as you finish them. Fun, right?! Check it out, let me know if you want in!!

Welcome to our family Sharky T. Johnson!

Oh yeah-that's right, for F is for Fish (and other f words) week, we bought a Betta fish. He is handsome and red and lovely to behold. We lovingly named him Sharky T Johnson. He is our newest pet. So far he is doing much better than our little Callie the chrysalis that never made it to being Callie the butterfly...so sad...nonetheless, here is Sharky! Welcome to our family!

The Petting Zoo...And so ended our zoo day...

Our last zoo stop was at the petting zoo. We petted goats...well, some of us did, but a certain 2-yr-old was leery and did not want anything to do with those animals. In fact he didn't get it why dad and brother were going near them. However, with his dad's help, he got a bit braver and almost petted one before we left...and like the great mom I am, I stood by and documented the event in photo format...check out the pictures I took...

Big Spider web at zoo

There is a big spider web at the zoo for the kids to play on...note the leader of the pack is the biggest kid...Wes...Oh, and I admit, i joined in too...We were one cute little spider family-check us out!

One note-I gave Solace the option to miss any day(s) of school she wanted for dad's vacation this week, and she did not want to miss any! Not only does she love it, but she feels responsible to be there everyday. It was a bit sad for me that she didn't want to come with us, especially since I miss her terribly every day, but I am proud of her for her hard work and dedication to school already! (Let's see what she says in high school about missing...) Anyway-that is why there is a vacant spot where my Solace should be in these pics!

Aquarium and Giraffes

Here are a few pics of the aquarium and the giraffes...

Dad, boys and Kindle (in shark tunnel)
Sea turtle-head down
Giraffes
Look Wes is the height of a baby giraffe.
Riding...
Actual quote "Mom, yook at me I am on a rock-take picture of me!!"
Kindle was there patiently in her seat (as usual). She is such a great baby!!

New Zoo Butterfly House

OK, so we have a big zoo and we went there for hours earlier this week with daddy since he has had the week off!!! Here are some pics of the new butterfly house.

A butterfly landed on Wes and he was carefully trying to move it on to a safe spot.

Cute Kindle looks on from her seat... There he is moving the butterfly
Ah...safety!
Ender looking on a butterfly
A blue morpho butterfly.
Boys look on
"Mom, take another picture of me here."

Get into mommy's makeup once, shame on you! Get into mommy's makeup twice, shame on me!!

Oh yeah-for the second time in like a week Armour got into my makeup. Awesome...

Look how much he likes it!

Whole new museum!

So, we went to the rest of the museum while we were there looking at Dinosaurs, and guess what? In the year we lived away they changed the whole thing! It was like going for the first time. Here we are doing various activities (all after the dinosaurs of course)...

Shopping in the new improved grocery area...
While we were there we thought we would learn about a balanced healthy meal using this new activity Ender is showing in this picture. It went well overall...
Armour working on his
Ender working on his
Ender's final product (he had no fruit in his options so he left it blank he told me)

(Oh also-I do not know why this pic is sideways-it will not work.)
Armour's finished project was not quite right, but hey-we did convince him to leave the candy off of this one...

Armour the fireman (He would not leave this seat for a good long while)
Playing in the firehouse water area...
In the new playhouse area...

Armour the farmer
So, near the end We started to lose it (note Ender's face)
Then we REALLY started to lose it!
And then we left...ah life! I love it!

Oh Boy have we been Busy! Remember way back when D was for Dinosaurs...

When we did the D for Dinosaurs week, we went on a mommy school field trip to the special dinosaur exhibit to learn even more!! It was SO fun. Here are a few of our pictures:

Kindle in the car seat/strollerBoys and Baby
T Rex in the background
In the background is the herd of deinonychus eating a tenontosaurus.
Here's a better pic of that...
Here is Kindle staring at it...
Check out the look on her face.