Friday, February 19, 2016

Grand Rapids Children's Museum February 18th

 Mason's kindergarten class traveled to the GR Children's Museum in
February. Grandma and Grandpa took Madelyn, too. Here Mason lifts
a big ring out of a soap solution that produces a big bubble around the kids.
 There were smaller open tanks of bubble solution and big rings. Mason
got pretty good at it!
 A small climbing wall.
 Mason would find the Legos, of course.
 The big beam in the center was magnetized. Mason built all sorts
of creations as all the steel stuck together.
 Arranging different types of media on a light table.
 The teeth were for brushing, but Mason clowns with them.
 Madelyn drops balls down a slope and rigs the different
bells. The golf balls worked best.
 They had many different vehicles for the kids to
drive.
 Madelyn brushes the teeth on a dentist's office patient.
 A jungle hat and drums.
 Playing a set of large bolts. They also had wrenches.
 Baby girl's turn at the bubble table.
 Crawling through a triangular prism makes for a
kaleidoscope-type image for Madelyn.
 Creative station with glue, scissors, cards, fabric,
styrofoam, etc.
 A real bee hive and magnifying glass to see the bees
up close.
 
Riding a big horse and packing around four big black
stuffed dogs.
 Julie brought silicon muffin cups that looked fun
to play with.
Piggy tails!


Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Early February Baby Girl Antics

 Waking up with one of Aunt Colleen's pigs she had
when she was young.
 Lunch with the pig.
 Another dress-up day. Sheriff Caley hat with
fairy princess skirt and the pig.
 Poor Paris wore a tutu with the princess.
You need pink safety glasses and pigtails to work
with grandpa's Leatherman.
 
 Madelyn's going to fix something!

Monday, January 4, 2016

After Christmas Atlanta Trip

 Our family went with grandma and grandpa to Atlanta to visit our cousins. We spent two days
driving in the car on the way down and 15 hours in one day driving back. Here Mason is
working on a red tongue and sugar high.
Temps were in the mid 70s when we arrived and we
went right to their little park to play. Here Madelyn
and Hudson catch and look at lady bugs on a climbing
structure.

The five grandkids on the big swing at the park.
 Selfie........
 Everywhere we went Madelyn "collected" stuffed animals.
Here she is at Cracker Barrel with an armload of pink
horses. She did actually take one home. At one rest stop
on the way home she pulled out four black cats in one
arm and had three pink purses with horses on the other
arm. Fun but none made it home.
 Madelyn and Hudson would pile into the porch swing
with grandpa to eat fruit in the afternoons.
Madelyn and Aidan with fake pizza. He played well with little girl. Madelyn
used their walkie talkies to call in for the pizza order.
 We spent most of one day at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. We walked through
a tunnel in a huge tank where daddy showed Madelyn some fish overhead.
 Mason pets some sort of small shark.
 Madelyn pets a horseshoe ray.
Madelyn watched the Whale Sharks and other species in the 10 million gallon
salt water tank.
 All four boys wore their Ninja tee shirts that Daravia made for them in her printing class.
All five grandkids playing with the Christmas village Lego set.

Christmas Morning in Allendale

 Santa found our house!
Mason got a Scooby-Doo Lego set.
 Baby-girl wore new Minnie jammies.
 Madelyn opened this long box.
My own "atar"!!!!
Singing and playing for her audience.
 Mason opened a little Lego mini town. 
 Mario miniatures.
 Sister got hold of some of the miniatures. 
 Legos everywhere..........
 Doc McStuffin's band aids.

Mason Helping Grandpa before Christmas

 Mason and grandpa took advantage of the warm weather before Christmas
to trim Grandma Carol's bushes by the house. Mason's job was to cut up
the branches and stuff them in the garbage bag.
 Of course, we got some tree climbing in as well.
 Grandpa cut apart the bottom frame for three antique desks, so the new ends needed painting. Mason
loves to paint, so he did the work.
While we were working in the woodshop, Mason
found some wooden snowflake glue-ups and took
them apart. He said they looked like crosses.