Sunday, August 23, 2015

Kangaroo Farm....Again

Kya couldn't remember ever going to the Kangaroo farm and it was time for the joeys to be there so we headed south with the Franklins!
It was the first time it was raining on our visit but it didn't ruin the fun.

Aidan making a friend.

Ryker's turn to feed the wallaby.

Check out the pouch on this one.....A baby!

Kya feeding Mama and trying to get a closer look at her joey.

 
Albino Wallaby

Red Kangaroo

I went first then started snapping pics of the "first timers."  Aidan stepped right up next.

Pucker up!


I think my eyes would have been wide open if this thing was coming at me.

Classic response from a 6 year old after kissing a llama!

Grandma Patti's turn.

Johnny's up.  Look at Ryker puckering his lips.  Haha, he loved it and did it about 10 times.  Once was enough for Kya.  She didn't want to put the pellet in her mouth because it smelled like grass.  This coming from the girl that eats about any herb she finds growing out of peoples gardens and straight wheatgrass.  I couldn't convince her that it was probably about the same stuff though.

"Come on boys, which one of you is next?"
 

Yes, there was a joey to hold!

 Kya was super serious about the responsibility of holding this little guy correctly.  She loved it! 
 
My camera died, but after this we headed to Mount Vernon and went bowling for Johnny's birthday.
 

Hunt it up

My Mom was here and bought them each a lego set while there were at school.  Instead of just handing them over though, we had a little fun.  It actually turned out to be a lot of fun!
We gave them an Easter egg with the first clue in the house and off they went.  Part of the fun was that Ryker could read all the clues.


Kya concentrating as Ryker reads her the next clue.


Kya found hers, now Ryker can move as fast as he wants.  He had to just read and not help too much while Kya did the first few.  She may have held her own because some of the clues were geared more toward her and Ryker might not have known the answer, but I didn't want him running off and her just chasing him the whole time.  He followed her, then read her the clue, but once she found hers, he was on the MOVE!

He even jumped on his bike at one point because he knew he had to go to the bus stop.  Mom and I were laughing hysterically by this point and couldn't keep up.


Good thing my camera has a good zoom.  He read this clue and busted it back to the yard.

We just waited, laughing, until he came back.

Last clue:  "Your favorite lookout"

There's your Lego's kid.  Good luck getting them down.   Haha.

They now want Seth to get bigger tires on his truck.

Saint Patrick's Day parade in Bellingham

Of course there were lots of floats, but I just took pictures of a few of their favorites.  Loved the Irish Wolfhounds.


Keep the lights on in Edison BINGO night.

Backwards hoodie guy.  He said that's where he keeps his almonds.  I guess it's like a feedbag.

Dr Seuss' birthday!  We did a lot of stuff this year.  I'm surprised this is the only picture I took.  I actually had to cut 30 felt mustaches for Ryker's Kindergarten teacher after she saw the orange with the mustache and googly eyes I put in his lunchbox to look like the Lorax.  Apparently, it was a big hit.  He told me that he couldn't stop laughing when he saw it.  That's what makes all my craziness worth it.  I love surprising him, but really love to know that he had a good laugh at school.  Soon, he won't find anything I do entertaining so I'll ride this train until I'm kicked off!

 
They have a cake walk for the Edison Carnival so they have a cake contest the day before in hopes of collecting a bunch of cakes.  Of course Ryker wanted to make one, but he needed to do it himself.  We needed a cake that didn't need perfectly smooth frosting and didn't take much frosting decorating.  Replicating the cake that I made for Vi's party was perfect.

I was actually very impressed with his frosting spreading.  I warmed it up a little to make it go on easier, but I think he could have done it anyway.  I did print the vegetable seed packets but he glued them to the sticks and placed all the vegetables.

He also used green decorator frosting and piped on the stems and leaves and of course he wanted to use chocolate rocks to line the side of his garden. 

Kya loved it too.  Guess what?  He won first prize in his category.  There weren't very many Kindergarten cakes but I think he did a pretty good job.  He wants to make the same cake next year because he said it's an easy one to make look good.  Haha.  Maybe we'll mix it up and add gummy worms or a toy truck digging instead. 

They started out decorating an outdoor pine tree with Easter eggs, but moved on to Cosmos.


This boy is ready for Easter.
 



Kya's jelly bean tree.  She's decorating, getting ready for Grandma Patti's visit.

Another tooth.  This little poop started hiding the teeth under his other pillow and on his nightstand.  I told him the tooth fairy might just give up if she couldn't find it, but he persisted.   He doesn't KNOW it's us, but sometimes he hears things and just has to test us.  It's so hard once they start school.  I will tear your room apart as you sleep before I let that tooth go unfound little man!  I won't be outsmarted just yet!  That probably happens at age 7.  Haha.  Meanwhile, Seth could care less and would just hand him the $2 in exchange for the tooth.  I tell him my stories of Ryker trying to outsmart me and as much as he finds them entertaining, I think he thinks I'm a total DORK as I struggle to match wits with a crafty 6 year old.  Speaking of Seth, I think this is the tooth that came out playing Tetherball.  Seth nailed him in the face with the ball and then was taunting him as Ryker was struggling to cough up the tooth.  Just kidding about the taunting part.  I made that up, but Ryker did start to swallow it and had to cough it up.  I took this picture before bed and he wanted me to text it to Seth and write, "thanks for knocking my tooth out Jerk."  Now don't get all crazy, we don't use the word jerk very much and I don't know if Ryker had ever said it before then, but I always tease Seth by calling him a bully and a jerk each time he knocks one of Ryker's teeth out.  It seems to happen quite often.  They are always loose, but he just has a way of finishing them off while rough housing.  Anyway, we sat in Ryker's room giggling for quite sometime waiting for a response text from Seth, but never got it.  Our cell service is so bad in our house that our joke didn't go through until later.  Didn't matter though, we got our laugh out of it.