Butterfly Show

In Cincinnati every year they have a Butterfly Show with butterflies from Japan.  The kids were SO excited to go. However, the line was so long to get in, that Ezra really wasn’t interested once we got into the actual butterfly house. There were so many people that we really only caught one butterfly.

It was still fun. Araya was just big-eyed over all of it! She loves butterflies! It was funny though, that once we caught one they both seemed scared of it, and didn’t want to touch it! Especially Ezra…LOL!

This one of her is my favorite!
She was talking to the butterflies! Too funny!

dUE FOR A hAIRCUT

So, if you live around here and have seen Ezra, I’ve been letting his hair grow out.

It seems to be the “style” right now, and forseeing him in possible private schools in the future I figured this may be one of the only chances I get to see what his hair looks like all grown out…if it is curly or what.
Well, I do like it longer…it was just getting crazy. AND he’s got my whole “hot head” so whenever the weather is warm his hair is just sweaty as can be…so I decided it was time. (That – and when he’s in his swimming class, it looks so long in the back wet, it looked a little girly!”)

 

Ezra could care less if it was long or short. I told him I was going to cut it, and he was like…okay. (who cares)

 

So, I cut it today….here’s the pics!

 

 

Two Lessons learned…

So, while David is out of town, I am trying to keep the kids quite active so that they drive me crazy less!!! =o)

So, I took the kids to our favorite park, which I like because of the ground, but the layout is difficult to see everything all at once and when you have two kids who go opposite directions, it makes me nervous….(yes! I am paranoid that some stranger is going to walk off with my kid when I cannot see them)

But I ventured off with the kids on my own.

 

As I got out of the car, I thought, “Take the camera or leave it in the car?” I thought, with all the watching of the kids, I wouldn’t have time to take any photos” But…being a photographer, I grabbed it and stuck it in my back pocket. (Point and Shoot)

The kids played and had fun, I just had to do minor corralling, to try to keep them playing in close enough proximity that I could see them both at the same time.

 

 

Now, for the first lesson….we hadn’t been there very often and the kids said they were hot and through my sunglasses I could see they were getting sunburnt! SUNBURNT? It’s mid-April at 4PM…just because of the month, doesn’t mean it’s not hot and the kids don’t need sunscreen…SO…lesson #1, keep sunscreen in the car, so I can keep my poor kids from getting burnt. (Bad mom moment…)

 

Towards the end of the time we were there, I wanted the kids to swing in hopes it would cool them off. If anyone has know Araya since she was born knows she’s afraid of heights. I thought we were over it, but lately she’s gotten scared again. She doesn’t like to swing, climb the climbing walls, etc.
She wants to sit on my lap while I swing, so I tried to get her to try other things with the swings in hopes of getting her more used to them again. (She was swinging a lot there for awhile, but now she just says, “Those swings are Scary”!)

So in the midst of playing with the swings, all of a sudden the kids realized they could “FLY!”

I love the shadow in this one!
 

And here is my little girl trying to be as BRAVE as she can!!! (So she can “fly” like Brother)
 

Look at her feet up!!!
 
And there is the Truth…look at her face! She’s scared but is being so brave! 

These last 3 are my favorite!!!

Ezra is by far the hardest to get a photo of! He looks away on purpose, but look at his face here!

The sun went behind a cloud and Araya looked up to see what happened! HOW PRECIOUS is she?

And finally….here’s my little Superman in action!!!

LESSON LEARNED…ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS TAKE A CAMERA…even if it’s just a point and shoot! =o)

Something new…

New hair-do…
Araya now requests braids more than often, I’ll have to take a picture to show you when they come out…so cute!
 
Also, the kids are back in swimming classes…which is mostly to get my butt to the gym – it does work wonders! I got the kids some goggles, and they LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!! =o)
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only they don’t know how DORKY they look!!! LOL! (They’re going to love these when they get older!)

SEE!?! He thinks he’s all that…but not so much! =o) LOL!