tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81597868396815990512024-03-12T21:28:30.459-05:00Skees Family BlogMisadventures in parentingSarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18330843434850131098noreply@blogger.comBlogger621125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159786839681599051.post-41210758974371916222013-08-19T12:13:00.000-05:002014-11-03T21:31:48.346-05:00A trip to the local nature center<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18330843434850131098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159786839681599051.post-32867308184452975872013-08-19T12:10:00.000-05:002014-04-14T12:11:18.545-05:00Looks like someone got the camera...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
But this time it was James! His perspective is....unique.</div>
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Look at the camera John! </div>
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John has successfully learned how to go up the steps, through the tunnel, and down the slide - all by himself! </div>
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What a curly headed cutie!</div>
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Every August, we venture out to a local waterpark with some friends. This year, the big kids were old enough (aka not scared) to go in the wave pool. It was a blast.</div>
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Outside one of our nearby Targets, there is a water play area. It was hot, the kids were bored, we didn't have anywhere else to be....they got wet!</div>
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The rocks were so much fun to pick up and move around. There are little tiny water spouts in the middle of the big flat rock and depending on where you put the river rocks you could change the flow of water. Rose enjoyed that a lot.</div>
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We took some family time at the BrickFair this weekend. It was an entire convention hall set up with lego creations that people had built and brought to show off. Of course there were also retailers, so our own lego collection grew quite a bit. <br />
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This is a piece of art, literally. It was leaning on an easel and was somewhat 3-demensional. Probably one of the coolest pieces I saw all day.Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18330843434850131098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159786839681599051.post-37098265300452860422013-08-02T09:34:00.000-05:002014-02-24T09:34:08.804-05:004-H Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rose's class performed one of the songs. She was in the big kid section this year.</div>
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Of course we enjoyed the sno-cones. James had a blast during his first week at VBS. He was such a big boy!</div>
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And John really got into his watermelon! Those are three different slices. He couldn't get enough. </div>
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One of the local parks had a woodworking class offered for Father's Day and I thought that was something that screamed Dan's name. They even had filing projects for the kids to work on. Rose was so proud of her work on her whale. And Dan made a beaver shaped letter opener. It was a nice relaxing afternoon.</div>
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Playing with a toy that is bigger than he is.</div>
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Climbing like a monkey.</div>
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She constantly falls asleep like this.</div>
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Finally understanding how the straw concept works!!! Yeah!!!</div>
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On his actual birthday, the kids gave him the present they picked out while on our trip. It is this incredibly obnoxious steering wheel that makes noises. </div>
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I thought this was too cute not to share. See how his cheeks puff out in the last picture? That is all fruit. The worst part is he doesn't seem to like actually swallowing the food part, just sucking the juices out then he spits the 'meat' of whatever fruit back out on the tray. UGH! Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18330843434850131098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159786839681599051.post-80725083376384848872013-05-27T12:51:00.000-05:002013-09-03T12:51:48.134-05:00Midwest Trip - The end!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
From St Louis we drove directly to Dan's brother's house in Germantown, IN. The kids stayed up late hanging with their cousins and then we went to the oldest cousin's (Daly) baseball game the next day. </div>
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That afternoon we drove on to Dan's sister's house and spent the next day with the other set of cousins - Reid and Boyd. It was a nice relaxing day before the big trip back. The longest leg of the trip was the 12 hours from Louisville to DC. But the kids were great. </div>
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It was kind of rainy and overcast when we pulled into St Louis, so we decided to go see the Arch since most of the museum is underground.</div>
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We ended up not going up to the observation deck, but it was still pretty cool to look at. Especially all the different angles.</div>
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There is the coolest kids place I have ever seen in downtown St Louis. It is called The City Museum. You'd think, history of St Louis blah blah. But you'd be wrong! It has to be the BIGGEST indoor (some outdoor) playground. There are no rules as to what you can and cannot climb on in this place. </div>
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This was the beginning of what I'd call the treehouse. And below is a tunnel that goes under the tree. Apparently you could also go under the marble floor you saw in the pic with the feather ceiling...the bigger kids were telling me all about it.</div>
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Then upstairs we found the 'little kid' section. You could tell Rose was almost too big for it, but too small to go it alone in the other section. </div>
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...yes, it is down two flights of stairs to get to the bottom...great fun with the baby and I running up and down.</div>
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This hollowed out firetruck is actually overhanging the parking area. The outside area was pretty crazy too, but I didn't get many pictures because John was down and out of the stroller at this point.</div>
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Well, I didn't get any pictures from when we were visiting with my friends the Marcinaks (James' godparents), but we did go to the Caterpillar Visitors Center in Peoria. It was full of crazy big machines (and a history of the industry which the kids were totally not interested in). </div>
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This wheel and machine are just a replica because if they put a real one in it would have crashed into the basement. It is what they use to haul stones in big mining excavations. </div>
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There was a fun simulator that the kids messed around with, but that I actually used. It was really hard to move ALL the levers and joysticks and pedals in the right order at the right time. </div>
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They thought it was funny to take pictures of them inside all the scoops. </div>
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Ever since this day, every time we see a CAT machine, they yell "LOOK A CATERPILLAR!!" </div>
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So if you know my kids, you know they like the movie Cars/Cars 2. And one of the things in the first movie is the rejuvenation of an old Route 66 town. Well, part of our trip involved the beginning of the original Route 66, so I HAD to take them on it. And I found this cool museum dedicated to Rte 66 paraphernalia. </div>
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These were signs that had been along a strip of the road, once upon a time.</div>
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This is the bus the character Fillmore (in the movie) was based on.</div>
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In my search of all things Chicago, I came across a series of diners that featured trains. Given our trip to AG, I figured I should try to balance the scales a little and do something more James focused. They had fun at this cute little diner. Your food came out on the little model train and James thought that was a hoot. It was definitely a throwback...no credit cards, no strollers, no shirt/shoes, no service! Overall, a fun little meal. Then we hit the road...old school style on Route 66.</div>
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At one of our pitstops I had the kids get out and run around in the grass. I do have to say that the midwest has got the whole road-side rest area thing down...they were the best I've seen in all my travels. I tried to take a pic of the kids since they were all cutesy and the grass was a nice background but could not for the life of me get the kids to look at the camera!</div>
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Our arrival into town was quite congested...they have a lot of traffic in Chicago! Here is a cityscape I took while waiting to move a few inches. I guess all those cars merging from the right were causing a back up.</div>
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When we FINALLY got to the hotel, checked in, and got to our room, Rose was so surprised to see this great American Girl Doll bed set up on her bed. I got the sleepover package (the AG Flagship store is down the street from where we stayed) and she got to keep the bed and they gave us all these snacks and junk food. As well as a movie rental that night.</div>
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They also enjoyed the fact that all of our hotels had a pool. This one was particularly nice and quite abandoned since it was the work week and everyone else in the hotel was there for some Restaurant Week Convention (this made it incredibly hard to find a room by the way!).</div>
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This strange looking statue was so much fun. The kids put their face in the circle (near their heads) and it took a quick picture, which it then projected on to the face of the man. They had fun making funny faces every 5 seconds or so. I couldnt get the camera to capture their faces on the man though.</div>
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This is a submarine that they basically built the basement building around. I think it was a German uboat that was captured and we learned their technology from. They weren't so interested in it since I wasn't willing to pay the extra bucks to get in (think another $30 just to walk through a sub with kids that would probably get hurt climbing up and down the ladders).</div>
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When we finally left, it was definitely past nap time, but they seemed to be having fun so they all took a late snooze in the car as we drove north of Chicago to a suburb. We were going to hit up the Legoland there the next morning, but apparently they didn't open til 12 and I really wanted to be on the road again by naptime, so maybe another time. </div>
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We took a road trip to Detroit for a friend's wedding. It was held in the Henry Ford Museum which is really cool. The kids had fun with things like the hotdog and model trains. There were all sorts of things, and some really cool old cars (which must all be on Dan's phone, since I couldn't find any in my camera). </div>
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<br />Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18330843434850131098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159786839681599051.post-16226770120151579292013-05-02T16:36:00.000-05:002013-07-26T16:37:09.930-05:00A gift from the heart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of Rose's close friends had her First Communion and invited Rose. We went to the craft store to find something to make and came home with the pieces to a project only known to Rose. She got inspiration from Pinterest (help searching by mom of course) and went with it. First we painted the wooden cross with pink spray paint from the craft closet. Then she arranged all the buttons so I could hot glue them down. Then we took the glass out of the frame used heavy duty double sided tape stuff to attach the cross. </div>
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It was a beautiful gift and hopefully something her friend will keep for a long time.</div>
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