Look What We Found!

A few weeks ago Luke realized that we had a squirrel nest in the big tree in our backyard. At one point we had SEVEN squirrels in our backyard - the mama and six babies. Can squirrels even have that many babies at once? We all really enjoyed watching them chase each other and chatter in our tree. They must have been old enough for Mama to kick them out, because we stopped seeing them the middle of last week.

Church Easter Egg Hunt

Our church puts on a Easter egg hunt the Saturday before Easter every year. It's a pretty big deal. The amount of eggs they put out is insane, and they divide it out by age, so the little ones aren't getting trampled by the big kids. It's really nice. Raegan had enough fun with it last year, but this year she KNEW what an Easter egg hunt was, so she was really excited for it.

Listening to the program before the egg hunt

And they're off!

Raegan sat for part of the Easter egg hunt, because the eggs were that thick in the grass!

Look, Mama!

Getting heavy....

She was pretty excited about some of the eggs!

Yikes!

Happy Girl!

Raegan's Car, Pt. 2

Not too long after we first fixed up Raegan's motorized car for her, we took it out to the old airport so that she could have lots of room to drive it around. She had so much fun with it. She was just laughing and laughing, and couldn't stop smiling.

Can't stop smiling!

It was a beautiful sunny day when we went

She had tons of room to drive!

Always with the mouth open when she's excited :)

Sesame Street Live

Sesame Street Live was in Wichita earlier this month, so Raegan and I made the trip down Friday afternoon after I got off work. Luke was still in Colordado on his ski trip with his brothers, so it was a nice opportunity for some Mommy and Raegan time.

Before the show. I couldn't hardly get her to look in the direction of the camera she was so busy looking around at everything!

The look on Raegan's face when Bert and Ernie first came out and started talking. Made it worth every penny!!!

So funny!

Raegan loved clapping along with everyone else after every song

Raegan's favorite characters

This is what Raegan looked like when we got home at 9:30. :)

Raegan's car

Last summer my mom got a really good deal at a garage sale. The woman gave her this motorized car for free. The problem was that the wires to the battery had been cut/tampered with/whatever by some neighbor kids, and she was just going to throw it away. She gave it to us, which we were super excited about having for Raegan when she got older. We finally got around to getting a new battery for it (we were waiting partially because Raegan wasn't old enough, and partially because those things aren't cheap) and now we have a motorized car for Raegan for about a third of the price of a fancy one from the store.

Raegan LOVES her car! She asks every day now if she can ride it. When she first gassed it and started rolling along, she could not stop giggling. It's pretty cute to watch!

Park Pictures

It worked out perfectly that child care was closed and my mom was watching Raegan the day of my classroom's April field trip. My mom and Raegan met us at the park. I obviously had to focus on the 12 preschoolers I had with me,  but I was able to spend a little time with Raegan. She was really excited about getting to feed the ducks (Kack-kacks as she calls them) and of course she spent most of her time at the swings.

Another zoo trip!

Yesterday, Raegan, Zane and I met up with Raegan's daycare at Rolling Hills. I was excited for my first field trip with Raegan's daycare, and it turned out to be a lot of fun! I had never been to the museum there before - it's very nice. They've changed things so that the admission price covers the museum and the zoo, so we were able to do both. Zane did an awesome job of helping with the little kids and he made himself some new admirers. ;)

Raegan with all of her daycare buddies. (You can click on it to see it larger!) It warmed my heart how happy they all were to see her when we walked up!

 Raegan loved the little counting bears in the play area. One of her new things is to count, but she always counts, "two, two, two" as she points to objects. :)

Zane enjoyed the computer game where you could put different animal parts together to make a new animal. He entertained a couple of the older girls with that.

Raegan did the nervous lip biting thing during most of the museum. She's always kind of shy at first whenever we go to a new place.

Okay, that's the extent of the pictures I'm going to share, because every time I try to upload another one, it says that there is a server error. Oh well. I think you get the jist of the good time we had!

Tanganyika Wildlife

I took the kids on our annual Spring Break Trip today. We did end up going to Tanganyika Wildlife, and we really liked it. It's much smaller than a zoo (I think there was maybe 30 exhibits) but a lot of it is interactive, so you are right there with the animals. There were many animals that you could feed, but at $1-$2 a feeding, we skipped all of them except for the lemurs. If you had several children and wanted to give them every opportunity, you could end up spending a good chunk of change there. We spent $19 on our admission (we rounded up to an even $19 to donate some change to the cheetah exhibit they are building) and $2 for Zane to feed the lemurs (one freakin' berry, btw - they have quite the racket going there for sure!) It was a little windy, but warm and a very nice day for a trip to the zoo. Afterwards we had lunch at Spangles and saw the owner/manager/whatever she is from the commercials. True fact. We also went to Toys 'R Us so that Zane could drool over toys he didn't *quite* have enough money saved up for, and got ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery before we came home. It was a great day!

My camera is barely zoomed here. The giraffes were seriously that close.

You can't see very well, but these are baby lemurs in the nursery. We also saw a rabbit that was almost as big as our beagle. I'm not lying - ask Zane! :)

I was really surprised that this lorikeet landed on my shoulder since we didn't have anything to feed them.

Zane took this picture 2 seconds before a second bird landed on me. Raegan thought it was pretty funny!

I think she looks like her Daddy in this picture with that look on her face. I get that look from him sometimes. :)

Look Mama!

Zane and I both decided that we want a red panda.

We were told that we could pet the kangaroos if they came up to us, but we had to stay on the sidewalk. They were all lazing about, so we didn't get to pet any, but it was really cool to see them all so up close. Raegan waved and told most of them "hi!" as we walked through the exhibit.

You had to feed the tortoises lettuce attached to a clothespin so they didn't bite your hand. I thought that was funny.

The penguins were super friendly with their keeper. The females kept snuggling up to her and trying to get in her lap.

Doesn't that lemur look psycho?!

Some people got the lemurs to sit on them, but we only had one berry, so Zane had no such luck. He did get pretty close to it though.

We were worried Raegan was going to try to pet it/smack it like she does Daisy (and we were told not to pet the lemurs) but she did really good.

She was super excited to be so close to so many animals!

Zane even napped on the way home....

And of course Raegan did too!