Dinosaurs!

We spent a very hot Saturday morning at the zoo, seeing the new dinosaur exhibit. Brennan will happily look at the pictures now, but he was not so thrilled to see the dinosaurs in person. They move (slightly) and make noise. And some were quite big. I think they might be the same ones that were at the science museum years ago (when "Jurassic Park" came out?). Aidan wanted to go through it a second time b/c the dino at the end squirts water and he didn't really get wet the first time. But by the time we were done seeing the rest of the zoo 3 hours later, we were all ready to get in the car with the A/C blasting and get home.

Aidan unearthing some fossils

7 and 7

Aidan turned 7 years old this month while Evan turned 7 months. Thinking back, Evan turned 3 months in March, when Brennan turned 3 yrs. And he will be turning 11 months in November when Marian will just have turned 11 yrs old (she was due in November but surprised us by showing up early in October). Kind of funny how the numbers work out!

We started off Aidan's birthday with a rare trip to the movies to see "Toy Story 3". So this was Evan's first movie, which was fitting because Marian's first movie was "Toy Story 2"!

Aidan was done with the lego set above in one morning--all by himself!

He then started on the one below (note the age recommendations!), only stopping to scarf down a pb sandwich at about 2:30 that afternoon.

He finished each of the above and below in a 36 hour period, stopping to go to school, of course! I only helped fix 2 things he had skipped in the top one, and only helped to snap on a few hard things with the bottom one. Otherwise, he did it completely on his own!

These were 2 large sets in one box, that then go together to make a monster-huge Star Wars lego!!