Here are some of the other highlights from the month of February:
It was a beautiful warm winter day and after church to help keep the kids occupied we suggested that they could build a snowman in the backyard. They weren't too keen on the idea but Spencer was....and here is his snowman. He has since been reduced to about half due to the warmer temperatures.
For Valentine's Day I had signed up Aaron for a class at the valley zoo. So here is his listening to information about animals and touching various objects and animals.
This is the wing of a female peacock.
Here he is petting a rooster that has beautiful reddish coloring and his red comb.
Here he is touching an armadillo.
He made this elephant craft and he also made a "stink bomb" which is an enrichment toy for some of the animals. It was made up of a piece of an old sheet filled up with sheep's wool (smelly) with other scented oils added to that (orange, peppermint) and tied up with twine. We visited the lemurs and learned a little bit about them then we had time to wander around the zoo for ourselves.
Who should we meet on our wanderings?......that's right Lucy the elephant was out for a stroll so we got an up close view and picture of her. Aaron enjoyed being with other kids in a learning environment.
Evan lost his first tooth. Hallelujah! It was wiggly for quite sometime and starting to bother him. He finally, after some advice from his older sister on what it is like to pull out your tooth, got brave enough to pull out his own tooth! The tooth fairy did eventually find him and gave him a shiny "loonie" after stumbling upon one that she didn't need for grocery shopping.
On Family Day since we all had the day off we headed to the provincial museum which was very busy and crowded but still worth the effort. Above is a picture of one of the rocks in the rock and mineral exhibit.
Here is Evan in the dinosaur exhibit. We also enjoyed seeing all the other exhibits again and the new exhibit of Inuit dolls.
The kids had teachers convention at the end of the month so we went to the zoo. It was a nice day to be outside. Who should we happen to see again?.....that's right Lucy! Boy she gets some good exercise and outside time.
Here we are taking a short break and watching the tortoises and lemurs. The Edmonton zoo is very different than the Calgary zoo. It only takes us about 1 hour to see all there is to really see especially in the winter time. We had a nice time together and it was a good way to spend some of the day.
On another day Aaron and I went to play at the John Janzen Nature center at the indoor play space. They also happened to be feeding some of the reptiles while we were there. So he felt a garter snake.
He also touched a salamander and then watched as they tried to feed it a worm. This boy is pretty brave to touch so many different animals and reptiles.
