Sunday, August 31, 2008

Adventure Aquarium

When we woke up today, Chris said let's go to breakfast at Emil's (Dave's favorite place to eat breakfast). After, breakfast Chris asked if we wanted to go to the aquarium, so off we went to New Jersey for the day! First thing that Dave wanted to do was touch a sea cucumber.Here he is touching a star fish. He made sure that he touched every animal in the touch tank!Dave checking to see which shark he would be if he was a shark. It turns out he weighs as much as a blacktip shark.Dave and Chris testing their strength to see which shark they are as strong as. They almost made it to great white shark, but not quite. Dave checking out the two newest sharks at the aquarium.Then it was off to the shark tunnel!!! Dave loves watching the sharks swim all around him.Dave checking all the equipment that a scuba diver wears.Wouldn't he make a great dinner?"Look at these big fish, Mom!"And the best part watching the hippos, when we were at the aquarium in the past the hippos never seemed to do too much, but not the case today.Here they are getting in!Dave looks so tiny next to these guys. They look so graceful in the water, even though they are huge.

Spaghetti dinner and bingo

Last night, we went to the Elmwood Park Zoo's Spaghetti dinner and bingo. We had fun planning bingo while Dave was off playing in the playground, doing crafts and seeing an animal show with all of the other kids.


Dave was so happy to see that his favorite turtle was back at the zoo!!!! It was the highlight of the night!


Elmwood's newest members two howler monkeys, they just arrived the night before so they were still laying low. We also saw another new member a big male elk, but I wasn't able to get a picture of him. The zoo staff didn't let us get too close, due to the fact that they had just put him in the cage right before we got there and the female elk were a little stressed out by the new male.

Dave playing on the sliding board.

Dave riding an alligator.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Playpals at BucksMont Indoor Sports Center

Today, Dave and I went to BucksMont Indoor Sports Center for their Playpals group. We both had a lot of fun. It was a little quiet today, but I did talk to some of the other mom's that were there and they said that when the weather starts to cool down it usually gets pretty busy. So we will definitely be checking it out again in the future.


Dave trying to climb into the bouncy house!

Jumping, Jumping, Jumping!!!!

Getting ready to go down the slide.

Down he goes!!

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Hilltown Park

Tonight we decided to take Dave over to his favorite playground. We thought that we better since the weather is starting to cool off a bit and we are seeing some signs of fall coming. We won't have too many nice nights like this left. Here he is riding the swings.Dave trying out the monkey bars again.On the balance beam with some help. Dave going down his favorite curly slide.We were lucky enough to see some big trucks while we were there. They are putting in a new basketball court. We'll have to keep our eye out for when they are working on it. I'm sure Dave would love to see the trucks in action. The boys are still checking out the trucks, on our way to the baseball field.Dave pretending to throw out the first pitch. (We didn't bring a bat or ball with us this time, so we had to pretend.)And he's up to bat!And he's rounding second base!It's a home run!!!!!

Cutting down trees with Pop


Today, Pop called and said that he needed Dave to come over and yell "Timber" for him. So over we went and Pop and Pops cut down trees and Dave yelled "TIMBER!!!" Dave had a great time watching them cut the trees down and then drag them out of the woods. For the most part Dave watched them from the golf cart so that we could follow them as moved around the woods.
Pop starting the cut the tree down.
Pop waiting for the tree to fall!!Pop and pops tying the chain to the tree to drag it out of the woods.
And here's the big tree, ready to be split for firewood for the winter.
Dave watching the whole process from the safety of the golf cart.


Thursday, August 21, 2008

Zoo fun with friends

Today we went to the Elmwood Park Zoo with Sarah, Caleb, Noah, Shelley and Joel! Here some of us are eating lunch. We did say that we were going to get a picture of everyone, but after lunch all of the boys were ready to go home. So here's some of the crew. Here's Joel and Noah!Dave making sure that Noah sees the big catfish.Here the boys are checking out the train tracks. Here the boys were chasing eachother around, while we were packing up after lunch. Looks like they are thinking about climbing this tree. I guess boys will be boys. Dave and Caleb checking out the huge Bisson. Joel checkng out the pink flamingos, they seemed to be his favorite!Dave looking at the fox. He said that the fox were his favorite today.I never knew that with our membership, Dave gets free pony rides. So off he went on Rain the pony.Here he is rounding the corner. I didn't even have to go with this time! What a big boy.Jess, we are making our way up to Snowball. This horse was a little bit bigger than the other one, but not as big as Snowball.