Luke

So it's spring break for the kids, but you still have to look good....

Apparently, Luke wanted to do his hair yesterday before going to daycare:

That's what he came up with.  Sarah says he kept telling her "I'm Mr. Handsome" all the way to daycare (it's about 2 blocks)...

Easter Egg Hunt

We didn't wake up with a plan to go to the Shakopee Community Center yesterday for their Easter Egg hunt, but we did anyway.  There has been very little information publicized about Cologne's hunt, so we went to Shakopee, even though they decided on Friday to hold the hunt inside (in the gym).

We had to split the kids - the 5 and under group went downstair first, so Lex and I headed for the gym, while Kieran & Luke stayed upstairs with Sarah.

As you can see...it's not much of a hunt for eggs when they're on the basketball court floor...they tend to stick out.  Rules were to get no more than five eggs, but you could get as much candy as possible.  

After the 5 and under group, staff members had to reset the floor, so there were games that the kids could play and win little prizes between the hunts.

Lex and I ended up watching the older hunt through a window overlook on the second floor.  Here's Kieran and Luke getting a pep talk from Sarah -- she's probably telling them the specific candy she wants them to get...

 Can see them?  Here's a little help...

The white shirts really helped the boys stick out so we could see them, again, it wasn't planned though...minutes later, the madness started...

It didn't take long...

 Could you find Kieran and Luke (and maybe Sarah) in the pictures?

MN Zoo

The first day of spring break for the kids was today, so we all took off to go to the Minnesota Zoo.  With the temperatures in the low 30s, we didn't really want to go to the Como Zoo and spend all of our time outside.  It wasn't too bad, especially when we were out in the sun.

Luke tried to 'milk' the buffalo statue below...it was a male buffalo...

One of the first animals we saw was the African penguins...penguins being Kieran's favorite...

Discovery Bay lost the dolphins a while back and is much more limited, but the sharks were still cool...they'll be getting Monk Seals in the next month or so...

The cougars (or mountain lions, pumas) are one of my favorite two animals there...

Going with kids who are always loud (Lexy), knowing everything (Kieran), mischievous (Luke) and always climbing on things (all of them) can be exhausting...

They were really excited to see the turtles...

Lex's favorite animal was the sea otters (the picture below is a river otter native to Minnesota)...a sea otter was engaged in a inappropriate behavior for young eyes -- good thing Lex didn't understand what it was doing...

Luke thought it was too cold at the otters though...

The eels were cool...

Komodo dragons are also cool...these are really small ones though...

I also like the wolves...I hear them camping and have seen their tracks, but never seen a wolf in the wild...

Luke has always been skilled at 'photobombing'....

Did you find him?  Lex had to wear her sunglasses, because Mom and Dad had them on...

That is a big bear Lukie...

Don't wake the bears guys...

Only Luke finds the Mammoth fossil dig site (it's fake and the fossils don't come out of the ground --- Luke really tried)...

Remember Luke's photobombing?

Have a good weekend!  Don't ride horses...ride fake rhinos.

Kindergarten Program

Luke had his spring program last week...there won't be any Oscars given out, but it was still fun.  The auditorium was packed, kids were nervous, but there was cookies afterwards...

Luke and one other boy shared a line --- Fannie and Nilly Goat went to say good bye to the butterflies --- that we had been practicing for almost two months....

There were songs, it was hard to understand most of the speakers, one absent minded girl almost walked right off the stage (the music teacher got to her first), and one boy even jumped off the stage and ran through the crowd...

Only two more spring school programs to go....

What I Want to Be....

Luke is in the local paper, each spring they do a "what I want to be..." section on all the area Kindergarten classrooms.  Here's Luke's class...

It's usually a fun read - you get the expected jobs - professional athletes, teachers, police/fire, musicians, etc.  Students also have to say something about how they'll learn their future profession.

Well Luke's future profession is Archaeologist and he says he will learn how to do that by learning about dinosaur bones.

Talking with Luke and his teacher, he was trying to say Paleontologist, but she couldn't understand him so they ended up with Archaeologist.....even Luke knows there's a difference between Paleontologists and Archaeologists.....

Spring??

It's currently 45 degrees and the sun isn't going to set until after 7:00 pm.  Here's the week's forecast:

It was time to get outside --- Kieran was out for most of the day yesterday, today we took a long walk (though I was the only one walking).

Two scooters and a bike (with training wheels) and they're off.  I'm on my own for most of the time.  Kieran and Luke usually lead the way, they took off towards Pam's house, hoping for snacks (which she provided, fruit snacks and water).

Lex came down that hill much more confidently today, apparently she's learned using her brake is better than screaming while flying out of control until she's at the bottom.

In 2012, the second week of March saw temperatures of 66, 66, 65 and 73.  We're not going to get there, but....we've got liquid water on top of the ice on the lake and most of the snow is gone around the area.  Early spring or just a break?

Strep...again...

It's been a whole two weeks since I took Kieran and Lex to Two Twelve Medical Center for strep tests (which were positive) and Sarah subsequently tested positive for strep the next day.  Well...Kieran and I took a return visited yesterday.  He tested positive again...we're home from school today -- he's watching the Super Bowl (probably the 10th time) on the NFL network.

We had to wait a while for the nurse/doctor to see him yesterday.  Only Kieran would take advantage of the time and find some sports to watch.  It happened to be Duke vs. North Carolina Women's basketball....

"Dad, do you know the Duke is the 16th ranked team and North Carolina is the 15th ranked team?"

"Dad, this is the same court that the men's team plays on and the court is named after the men's coach."

"Dad, did you know that Duke and North Carolina Universities are located real close to each other?"

"Dad - ......"  "Dad - ......"  "Dad - ....."

Okay, Kieran.....