March 2016

Just to remind us that winter is not over yet despite

having had 60 degree weather, we got 7 inches of real

wet snow in early March. It rolled so well we had made

four big balls instead of three, so the top one was a hat.

Mason found sticks for arms and rocks for the face.

Pulled the kids around and around and around the yard

in their snow saucers.

The boy leaves a trail from the bus to the house.......

Mason is a good tree climber now.

 We made our annual trip to Family Farm to see the

baby chicks and ducks.

Baby girl was thrilled and asked grandma to go back every day for

the rest of the week.

 Grandma and Grandpa took Madelyn to the River Crossings Mall to ride the carousel and

little car rides. She liked the carousel for about 2 minutes and then wanted off.

Playground at mall.

 A duet performance for grandma.

The finale with enthusiasm!

 Mae loves her "Achoos" -  characters from the Frozen movie.

Madelyn lets one of grandma's planter statues hold her plug while she talks to her.

 We had Easter at grandma and grandpa's house. It is

tradition for Daravia to hide the eggs for Mason and

Madelyn and one has to be hidden under the

neighbor's chicken that is between the two yards.

 Madelyn found all sorts of goodies in the plastic eggs. She opened the

eggs and pitched the plastic and put the stuff in her basket.

 There's one in every crowd. Mason clowned around

with Daravia's bunny ears and Madelyn's Mickey gloves.

He started out just making his sister laugh, but had a

big audience after awhile.

 What a performance!

Now maybe the ears are a beard???

Easter Sunday was a nice day for a change this year and we enjoyed the time outside.

 



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!



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!

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.