AZ Science Center

 

Lego exhibit. The kids could dress up as princesses, dragons, or knights. Nate could have stayed there all day building his castle.

The “Combustion” show.

Playing with the shadow wall. You could collect the virtual beads on you and then dump them off.

Our warped faces.

Super troopers! We walked about 0.4 of a mile each way to have lunch in the mid-afternoon heat. The kids didn’t even complain.

Wheelchair race. Nate won but Ellie wasn’t too far behind. They described it as being kinda hard to do. Also, in the human body exhibit (where the wheelchairs were) we got to see the dissection of a cow eyeball. Nate found it disgusting and wanted to leave and Ellie was completely interested and the presenter had her full attention.

Laying on a bed of nails. Paul is tough!  We could not convince either of the kids to do it. On the way home Ellie insisted that she wanted to lay on the bed of nails. 

Ellie was tired and taking a break by the water works. Nate was shooting the water canon.

Stormy is a Silly Cat

Stormy loves clean laundry! He lays down on what’s already folded and then won’t move even if you put more laundry on top of him. He even fell asleep here for a little while.

Fun with Oma and Opa

  

Quote from Nate

Nate as we are leaving the swimming pool tonight announced that "Mommy has a baby in her tummy she is not just getting fat." The honesty of a five year old can sometimes make you laugh.

Another tooth down

Nate lost his other top front tooth on Thursday. He is finding it very fun to stick his tongue through and making fake teeth with various things like gum and macaroni. He can now say tooth like “toof.”

Camping at Kaibab Lake

   

    

Roasting hot dogs and then marshmallows. The kids love to roast the marshmallows but don’t want to eat them.

   

Nate’s best dinosaur impression. Ellie didn’t know we were taking her picture.

        

The kids loved hanging out in the hammock. Nate wasn’t feeling well and so Ellie was pushing him and telling him stories which eventually led to Nate falling asleep (he slept for an hour and a half). Ellie was also very tired that day but would not fall asleep in the hammock but with the drive back from Williams and a few rounds around the campground she gave up and fell asleep.

       

Hanging out with Daddy and Opa.

Playing dominoes. Ellie decided she should be more natural and most of the time refused to wear shoes and also happens to not be wearing a shirt either.

The hair washing station. Ellie found it quite entertaining to lay on a table to get her hair washed and insisted it was not a diaper changing table. Relaxing after having nicely washed hair.

 

Throwing rocks. What else is a lake for?

   

The sunset one night which Ellie described as being the colors of booty-shaking pink and booty-shaking purple along with a little dance to go with the description.

Forest Fire!

Last weekend we did some camping at Kaibab Lake campground, little did we know that there was a forest fire burning right across the lake.

 

 

 

Nate’s Dinosaur Camp

Nate went to the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Dinosaur Camp last week. They had lots of stations to visit while at camp including digging for fossils, playing with dinosaurs, a time machine, and a craft center.

Getting ready to sing the “Dino Pokey.” Nate is in the yellow mask.

Meeting the Therizinosaur.

 

After the dinosaur egg hunt.

The dinosaur pinata.

      

Ellie even got to join in during the Dino Feast and Party.

Random kid thoughts!

The other night while Ellie was supposed to be sleeping I heard from her room the familiar sound of a child throwing up.  I immediately ran up stairs and the following short but enlightening conversation ensued.

Ellie – Daddy, I spit up!

Daddy – Are you OK?

Ellie – yah I’m OK.

Daddy – Does your tummy not feel good, is that why you threw up?

Ellie – No, I stuck my finger in my throat

Daddy – why did you do that?

Ellie – I wanted to touch my food!