SeaLife -- Mall of America

SeaLife, formerly Underwater World, is always a good time.  Teachers get a free adult yearly membership and can add additional people to the membership for $10 each.  So if you go just one time in a year, it's worth it --- if you go at least six times a year like we tend to, it's really worth it....

Lex's next move....

Just learning to crawl a two weeks ago to pulling herself up....

Maple Syrup Season 2011

The second year of maple syrup making started today with placing 37 individual taps into Sugar Maple trees.  The location is the same, in the Minnesota River Valley near Franklin, MN.  There is an awful lot of snow out there, Kieran had no problem with it though (he's light enough to walk right on top of it), but pops and I sank right to mid-thigh or our hips in a lot of spots.  Of the last few pictures is the newly created 'Sugar Shack' or 'Playhouse' depending on who you ask ---- it'll be responsible for processing the sap.  You have to boil off the water from the sap leaving the syrup behind, they say it's about 40 gallons of sap per gallon of syrup.

Lexy's learning to crawl.....

Lex has been busy the last few days....each day she gets a little better....she's definitely becoming a mover!!