After the business of proposal writing last weekend and all last week, with Jay and I bringing work home and looking at computers far more than we'd like to during the kids' waking hours, we really wanted to devote an entire day to them this weekend. So we set about the day (after sleeping in LATE - YESSSSS!!!) with pancakes and bacon (kids' choice, of course), and a viewing of Lego Batman (hopefully we'll get to the theater for the new Lego movie next weekend), then did a couple of projects (digging T-Rex and Mammoth bones out of plaster paleontology kits, and making plaster T-Rex bones out of sand molds), Skyped w/ Grambot and PawPaw, went over to the kids' future elementary school (SouthPark!) to play on their new playground equipment, ride bikes, and let mama run the trails for a little while, then back home for some DVR'd episodes of their new favorites: Paw Patrol and Octonauts (introduced by Grambot when she was here in early January). The weather was absolutely gorgeous (today I ran in a tank-top, while yesterday's 15-miler was in fleece-lined tights and a jacket as freezing rain drizzled down...), contributing to an all around feel-good family fun day. Couldn't have asked for better!
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| Little paleontologists digging up dem bones! |
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| Brushing off that dust |
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| Cleaning off the revealed bones |
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| Pouring plaster T-Rex bones before heading to the playground |
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| Giant fireman poles are a little scary, but Cora sucked it up and went down twice |
Riding the little hilly, muddy trail behind the school (where they hold a 1-mile race for elementary-aged kids in the fall - a competition among local schools)
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| They probably weren't suppose to climb on this pile of wood chips, but it was YES day, so we let them. |
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| The plaster bones worked - success! (They'll be used for James' paleontology/fossil expedition birthday party next month, along with the completed T-Rex and Mammoth skeletons.) |
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