Our Busy Week!

We had a week full of picture worthy events! Our caterpillars that we got at the Kidspace museum transformed, as they were supposed to, right before our eyes!! They formed a chrysalis, like a cocoon, and after a few days emerged into beautiful butterflies! It was really cool to see them emerge as they unfolded their wings, hung upside down for a few hours, then finally opened their wings to fly. We let them go in the back yard. Matt had a good time with it. "Bye bye butterflies!"


Matt got a playhouse for his birthday. Karl has been working hard in the evenings and weekends to put it together. So much for "easy adult assembly!" Karl finally finished "building the house" this week. We have been spending a few hours a day outside playing in it. The weather in the Antelope Valley gets extremely windy in the spring so we only go outside when Micah is sleeping.
We took a trip to the L.A. Zoo today. My sister, Jon, Luke and a friend and her family joined us. It was such a great trip! We accomplished more in the the first hour of this zoo trip then the whole day the first time I went with the boys. An equal ratio of kids to adults is such a benefit!! The pictures below are from today's trip. The other family we went with has a little boy, Max, who is almost 2 and a girl, Myra who is 3. Matt and Max have similar temperaments and they seem to get along well. Max's mom, Dawn, and I have become good friends and running buddies! We both have double running strollers and try to get out running together a few times a week. We are doing a 10K at the end of the month. I think Matt's highlight from today was the bird show. We went to a short 20 minute bird show and he really enjoyed it. He would clap for the birds after they performed their trick then look at Karl and say and sign "more birds!" Luke had a good time watching a listening to the howling monkeys! He was laughing and smiling at them. I think he could relate to them...he is a little monkey!!
We have our Mommy and Me class tomorrow and we are talking about mornings. The kids are wearing their pajamas and we are having waffles for snack. A trip to the doctor may be in store as well. Matt has had watery and crusty eyes for the past week. It doesn't seem to bother him and Micah had it a few weeks ago and it cleared but poor Matt 's eyes don't seem to be improving. We don't need to spread a weird eye plague to Karl with only 2 weeks before he runs in Boston. Actually, we don't need to spread anything around at Mommy and Me so we will evaluate in the morning! Have a good week everyone!