Whirl Wind Trip

This last weekend we went on a whirl-wind trip to Michigan. We visited Todd, Amy and Laryn and we went to Justus and Sarah's baby shower. Unfortunately my camera batteries died at the baby showers, so no photo of Sarah and Justus.

We started in Kalamazoo, visiting Todd and Amy in their new home. Julien and Laryn had lots of fun together. It felt like a slumber party.

Saturday morning we all headed over to Lansing to go to Justus and Sarah's and we met up with Kim, Ed and Margaret. Julien and Margaret were overjoyed to see each other (Margaret is now at a new school) and they proceeded to play a rough game of chase and kill mummies, which sent them into convolutions of giggles and lots of rolling around on the floor together. We then all headed over to the babyshower, which was mostly an English Department affair. Sarah looks good and very pregnant. She is very happy to no longer be on bedrest! She will be taking her final exams for law school in the next week or so. Hopefully she won't go into labor before then.

After the baby shower we headed straight home. We were exhausted. During the drive we tried Mad libs for the first time. Julien thought they were hilarious!

Easter Hike

We went on a great hike at Leonard Springs on Easter with Tracy, Jim, Peter and Jake. There were waterfalls along the path which the kids threw stones and sticks into. We saw several frogs, which was cool. The kids tried to get them to hop, but it didn't work. I tried to explain "playing dead."

Easter Weekend

We had a very fun and busy Easter weekend. We went to a large egg hunt down town and a Renaissance Festival on campus. We saw some knights in armor having a joust, but Julien found it scary, so he spent his time playing in the creek. A little renaissance girl played with him until her foot slipped and her fancy dress got wet.
Julien got an enormous chocolate dinosaur egg with chocolate dinosaurs inside from his Grandmum Kathy. He pretended he was a Velociraptor eating the egg. But he had to explain that the Tyrannosaurus told him it was OK because there were no live babies inside.

Graham's B-day

A couple weekends ago Julien went to Graham's Birthday party. They had an egg hunt and everyone gorged on jelly beans. Julien enjoyed playing train with Graham's older brother, Andrew.

St George and the Dragon

Julien has been creating set ups of "St. George and the Dragon." Julien took a few of these photogrphs himself.

knight costume

Juien has been finding inventive ways to dress up as a knight. After lots of pleading he finally got me to make him a helmet and shield out of paper.

Midwife

Our midwife, Mary Helen Ayres, is quoted in the NY Times! You can also check out an article about the safety of homebirths on the Midwives Alliance of North America website.

One more day.

Julien had so much fun that he begged me for one more day in Boston. Although, when he woke up Sunday morning the first thing he said was "Mama, I miss my daddy on this trip."
Andy set up his telescope and we looked at the moon. We could see the craters on the moons surface-very cool. We also took Dudley (the grey persian) out for a walk.

Science Museum

We went to the Science Museum while we were in Boston. Julien was both scared and facinated with the Tyranosaurus. He kept asking if they would show "the science of knights." We tried to explain that knights wouldn't be in a science museum, but he did find a beautiful armored knight on a horse in the museum store. We also saw a miniature viking ship.

Pregnant Sisters

Julien and I went to Boston for the weekend to visit Jessica and Andy. For those of you that don't know, she is due August 24th. We had fun being pregnant sisters and went to a couple maternity stores including "Isis Maternity" (where they have pre-natal yoga and lots of cool nursing and baby stuff) and a boutique called "Nine Months." We also took Julien to the park and played soccer with him. We looked kind of funny trying to keep up with Julien with our pregnant waddling runs.