Pretend Camping

We pretend camped in our living room one night a while back because Nate insisted we could not eat beef stew except when camping.

Innocent Cat

What… I have no idea how this hole got in the mattress cover!

All is good though because we gave the mattress cover to Stormy after it melted in the dryer.

First Day of School

Nate was super excited to go to school. He has been counting down for the last two weeks. He popped right out of bed this morning and got dressed and then was ready to eat his breakfast. If only he moved this fast when we want him to move. His first words this morning were “Today is my first day of school!”

Here is his super excited look and his new outfit he picked out.

Daddy helping put his shoes on.

Walking down the sidewalk towards the school. We had to park quite a ways down the street.

Sitting at his table in Mrs. Crockett’s class.

Ellie was feeling very left out so we took a special picture of her by the school sign.

Where is God?

While at the Science Center on Monday, Nate was carefully examining a model of a heart. After about a minute he asked "But where is God?"

Science Center Videos

Here are some videos from our time at the AZ Science Center

This was an interesting exhibit - It was a rear projection screen with a Projector. By standing in front of the projector beam you could create shadows that could be seen on the other side. The most interesting part was that your shadow could catch the virtual colored beads.

This was fun also - The webcam on this computer would distort our faces and then project it on a large screen on the wall.

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.