After Storytime

Outside one of our libraries is a beautiful little park. After storytime on one of the rare mornings Lucas and I have together we enjoyed the amazing spring weather with a little raisin snack.

Two Observers

...and a third

Love the tree! Any thoughts on what kind? Dogwood? Cherry?

Cheekwood

Matt and Lucas took a little trip to our botanical gardens with the Osgood twins. I was working and didn't get to go but loved the pictures and wanted to share.

It's always good to have a book:

Dad and son playtime:

Birdy Quotes

Lucas after seeing bicycles on a car-carrier: "Bikes on car. Silly."

Not another one

Christy brought Anna over to our house for an ear check the other day. Lucas watched and then declared "I check Anna ear. Luca Doctor."

We let him check Daddy's ears (not poor Anna's)

A lot left to learn

Safety First!

Testing our new Ski Helmets

Giraffes & Gruffalos

Now that it's getting (a little bit) warmer, we've been spending more time at the Zoo again. Lucas is now at the perfect age for it. Loves it! Talks about the giraffes, elephants, and monkeys non-stop during the zoo trip and for days after.

Last month my dad came and spent a weekend with us. It was great to see him and to get some rare quality time.

Back again on a different pretty day at the Zoo:

Nap time came and we didn't make it around the whole zoo. We had to skip the giraffes. (They were napping). Ever since then Lucas has been asking about going back. "See gi'aff. Gi'aff sleeping?" Karen tried to take him back and it wasa too cold so the giraffe was still (!) napping. Bummer. When he couldn't see the giraffe, he asked to the see gruffalo.

If you don't know the gruffalo, check out: www.gruffalo.com. The gruffalo books and the other books (such as Room on the Broom) by author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler (who is from Hamburg!) are our favorites!

The Gruffalo

"He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws

And terrible teeth in his terrible jaws."

"He has knobbly knees, and turned out toes,

And a poisonous wart at the end of his nose."

"His eyes are orange, his tongue is black;

He has purple prickles all over his back."

Good luck to us finding him at the Zoo!

Squid

Lucas and Matt's newest favorite silly game results in lots of laughing: