Toddler Tuesday at MoA

Last Tuesday we met up with some ECFE friends at Mall of America. Isaac had so much fun running around and riding rides with his buddies. 

The girls were troopers in the stroller most of the time (all the other boys had younger siblings the same age too). I did let the girls out to roam around for a bit while the boys rode some rides. 

We even had lunch at Hard Rock, kids eat free! Wow it was a crazy one with all the kiddos. 

And a couple more rides (getting good use of the unlimited wrist band) before we left. 

Playing outside

Got a little yard work done today with the help of a pen. 

Then we went for a wagon ride to the park before daddy got home. Actually he met us there on his way home from work. 

A-May-zing Birds

Isaac and I attended a little class at the nature center today. We had a sitter come and stay with the girls so it was just him and I. 

The class was for 3-5 year olds and we learned all about birds. Isaac made a little paper puppet bird. Then we explored the room waiting for the next group activity. We got to see snakes, turtles, a salamander, and a skink in the aquariums. 

Then it was story time, followed by a puppet show. The kids really enjoyed the puppets. There was a blue jay, Cardinal, woodpecker, owl and a few others. 

The class ended with a hike around the nature center where we listened and looked at various birds, saw an abandoned goose nest, and a phoebe nest. 

It was fun getting to hang out just me and him again. He had fun and is growing up so fast. 

Weekend fun

Saturday was a beautiful day. We made it over to Bryn Mawr for their annual festival of garage sales. This is our fifth or so year hitting it up. We weren't really looking for anything but enjoyed being outside walking around. We picked up an old bar blender, a book, and some waffle balls. Spending a whopping $3.25!! We hit up a park for Isaac on our way out. 

Sunday we went to an event called Trucksploration. It was REALLY warm and being in direct sun in a parking lot made it extra hot. But Isaac enjoyed seeing all the trucks. It was actually much better than the fall vehicle fair we go to. But the lines were really long and if it weren't so hot we might have let Isaac stand in more of them. They had some cool trucks though. A tank, cherry picker, basket of a hot air balloon, a semi. We even got to see an ambulance in action (someone fainted maybe cuz of heat, not sure) 

Mary

Mary loves jumping. When she is in her crib in the morning she is jumping so happily ready to start the day.

Here's a video of her on the trampoline which she climbed up to herself.

And here are some pictures of Mary from the past week or so.