We love the Zoo!!

After two days of chilly, rainy weather, the sun decided to come out, so we decided to go to the zoo. So did everyone else in St. Louis as you can see by the picture.
Eliza's favorite: the hippos
Are they fighting...or playing. Who knows!! Mason had no interest in the animals, not surprising considering he is only five months old, but he loved being outside and having mom hold him.

Alex's favorites were the fish. The tank was filled with fish that are found in the Mississippi River.

He really liked the penguins too.

I liked the baby elephant and the bear.

Time to go home while the kids are still smiling. Great family time and it was free. What more could we ask for?

"Hare in the Air"

Every year the college flies in the Easter Bunny and they have an easter egg hunt for the kids. We thought it might be fun and went over to check it out, apparently so did everyone else because it was crazy. There were people everywhere, but we had alot of fun.



Where is the helicopter??

Who knew the Easter Bunny was so popular! Even McGruff showed up.

They had an egg hunt for each age group. I didn't know if Alex would actually go out and pick up eggs without Eliza, so I told him what was going to happen and he said he wanted to do it. When the wistle blew Alex went out with all the other three year olds, but the parents standing around the edge of the grass were yelling so loud that he put down the egg he was holding and ran back to me. He wouldn't go out without Eliza or I went with him so we just went to find the Easter Bunny.

The Easter Bunny!! How many times in your life do you actually get to sit on the Easter Bunny's lap? This was exciting!

Eliza hunting for eggs. She told Alex that she would get some for him, too. And she did!!
On the way to the van, we noticed that the helicopter that had flown in the Easter Bunny was still in the parking lot and they were letting kids sit in it. The helicopter was almost as exciting as the Easter Bunny.

Peacefull Reading and Falling Trees!

So, a couple weeks ago I got Eliza and Alex ready for church and want upstairs to finish getting ready. I left Mason on the living room floor and asked Eliza to keep an eye on him for a few minutes. When I came downstairs this is how I found them. I thought it was so cute I had to take a picture. It looks like Mason is really listening to Eliza read. He is pretty young for that but who knows!



During the night there had been a storm and Eliza said
she had heard a crash. When we looked out the window that morning we saw that the
tree right next to where the van was parked had fallen down. It wasn't on the van, thank goodness.

When we went out to go to church we saw that the tree had,
in fact, hit the van. Now we don't have a passenger side mirror and we have a few dents, scratches, and a crack. (It could have been a lot worse. We are grateful.)

The next day the maintenance guys came with chain saws and cut the rest off the tree down. When they were done, Eliza, Alex, and I went out and counted the rings on the stump and we found out the tree had been 21 years old. It was a very pretty tree, with lots of spring blossoms. We were very sad to watch them cut it down. On the bright side though they let us take some of the wood to burn in our fireplace next winter.

Eliza is SIX!!

On friday we had a Halloween Birthday party for Eliza. We made a Jack-O-Lantern cake and Jack-O-Lantern pinata. We decorated the living room with pumpkins and bats and the kids dressed in Halloween costumes. A few kids from Eliza's class came and we had pizza, cake, lots of candy and played a couple Halloween games. I think the kids had a good time.

A skeleton!

Superman!

Swing as hard as you can.

Look at all the CANDY!

WOW!! Noise Makers.

Look at that cake!

Loosing Teeth

After weeks of wiggling Eliza has lost her two front bottom teeth. What an exciting day in a five year olds life. She was very excited when the Tooth Fairy left her a whole dollar for each tooth and let her keep her first tooth. What a nice Tooth Fairy!




Tooth #1






Tooth #2