This little boy has wanted nothing to do with learning to ride his bike without training wheels. We finally talked him into it on Saturday, and off he went. I thought I would be running all day, but he just took off and did it. We are pretty happy to be done with those training wheels.
When I came home from Twin Falls, we brought three little cousins with us for the weekend. We had a sleepover, went to a school carnival, and played outside for two days straight. It was beautiful outside, and it was so nice to sit outside in the sun.
We kicked Carson out of his room, and set up a slumber party in there.
I could not believe how long these kids played with sidewalk chalk. They made all of them houses on the driveway, complete with refrigerators. (They used coolers.)
Last week Cooper and I snuck away to Twin Falls to go meet this sweet little lady.
She was born while we were on Spring Break, and we were pretty excited to go visit. Grandma was nice enough to help out with the other kids, because they needed to go to school.
She is so much smaller than these pictures make her look. I have forgotten how small these newborns are. She made poor Cooper look like a little giant.
Jessica and I ran to Walmart that night to grab a few things and found these darling flowers. They were even brighter in and prettier in person.
My baby boy…who doesn’t seem like much of a baby, when your holding a real baby:(
My sister has a huge tree in her backyard. Her kids love it, and tell my kids all the time how much fun it is. My little ones were really excited to try it out.
They climb up really high and sometimes they take bean bag chairs with them. I kinda wonder what the neighbors think of this.
Carson making a mess in the garden.
Coop was loving the nice weather, and a bit of freedom.
Michelle and Morgan pushing Cooper in the swing.
Shae, Zach, and upside down Carson. He didn’t get hurt when he came down, even though it looks like he should have.
The girls enjoying one last slumber, movie party. Cooper decided to join in the fun for a few seconds.
We had such a fun trip, and are so thankful that the Michiganders were so sweet to host us. We loved all the fun times and memories we were able to make.
Meghan just sitting outside of the museum…looking pretty cute:)
The kids decided to try out a chemistry lab. They gave them cute little bags with aprons, notepads, and some supplies to keep.
They performed some experiments with cabbage and some other stuff you would find in your house. I had to leave with Cooper, so I didn’t get to see what they were up to, but I do think they are some cute little scientists.
Right before the place closed we went to an electricity show. We got to see this girls hair go a little crazy with static electricity, see a little lightning, and hear some loud bangs. I was worried Cooper would get scared, but we covered his ears and he did great.
One last picture with the dinosaur before we leave. Sorry Morgan, I didn’t have a picture with Paige’s arm not covering your face.
We got tickets to go see the IMAX movie about the Hubble Telescope. Michelle had seen this movie and very sweetly offered to watch Cooper while the rest of us went to the movie. They had a little date in Kids Town.
Finally, a computer that he can play with.
Thanks to my sister for letting this little boy out of that stroller so he could have some fun. It was an amazing movie…can’t believe what those astronauts are able to do, and seeing the pictures that telescope takes was incredible.
One of the last big things we did while we were in Michigan, was visit the Detroit Science Center. I was impressed at how fun this place was for all of these kiddos, even with such differences in age between them.
We started the museum off learning how cars were built. The kids learned how it would be to work on an assembly line.
My kids loved watching this robot. It was pretty smart.
Rachel, Carson, and Zach playing on the forklift.
This pendulum was to teach the kids how the earth is always rotating. While we were there, they got to see it knock off a few marbles. As the earth rotates in 24 hours, all of the marbles are knocked off.
Coop was a pretty good sport, spending a lot of the day hanging out in his stroller.
The museum had an exhibit where the kids could work some controls and send off bottle rockets (two-liter bottles filled with a little water, then filled with air, and then they shoot high in the air). These cousins loved this, and were already pretty experienced since we did the same thing last summer in Grandpa’s backyard.
