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Autumn went on a field trip with her daycare to see the "Shish" at the aquarium. It isn't a big one but it has fish and that's all that matters to her. What I think is neat is that the first part you walk through is 'Minnesota'. You walk through the woods and see what kind of animals live around us. Then you go through the shark and fish tunnel where they swim over your head.
The MN zoo has a new permanent exhibit called Russia's Grizzley Coast. There are 3 grizzly bears, 3 sea otters (or is it 4 I can't remember), 3 Armur leopards (who have yet to be spotted, no pun intended) and a family of wild boars along with the odd salmon and trout and gysers and steam spouts and bubbling pools of mud. Autumn loves seeing the bears and the otters. We've been a few times now and last Friday Autumn and I went with Amanda and then she and I went again on Sunday with Daddy for Father's Day. The zoo also re-did their central plaza and put in a water play area with water spouts that go up and then dissapear and then go up again (kind of like gysers I guess). Autumn thought that was the best part! Here are a few pictures of Autumn's escapades. And the movie is so cute but I didn't realize it would be laying on it's side, so, sorry about that. I can't figure out how to rotate it. And I know the pictures are smaller but if you click on a specific picture then you can open it up bigger to see better and save it to your computer if you want to.
Here are pictures of her first night and falling on the floor and her first nap in her big girl bed. She really does like it. It went much easier than I thought it would. The first night was a little rough but easier than I was expecting. Kurt read to her as usual but she insisted on sitting in the bed to read, now she sits in his lap in the chair again. I laid in the bed with her for a while and she snuggled her little face into my shoulder. Then I moved into the chair beside the bed and she held my hand and then when she was almost asleep I left. We have been very lucky that she is easy to put the bed and always has been. As you can see she ends up in all kinds of positions in the bed, everytime we peek at her her head is somewhere else.
Aye, aye, aye. My baby is growing up! (snif) Autumn figured out how to climb out of her crib so we put together her big girl bed. Autumn helped as you can see. She sleeps well in the bed and likes that she can get out and then come out and say "hi" after naps or in the morning. I have been leaving her door ajar during naps (well after she is good and asleep really) so when she wakes up she can come out. The grin on her face is huge. In the mornings if she gets up before we go in there you can hear little hands knocking to be let out. She even says "kok, kok, kok". she has fallen out a couple of times but there is a pillow on the floor and the bed is low to the ground so she doesn't even really wake up.
We went to see grandparents for Dallas' birthday a couple of weekends ago. Everyone was there at least part of the time. Autumn and Becca had fun playing together. Autumn also got a litte braver where Josie is concerned. She did a bit of crying and laughing while haning onto mommy for dear life. Later she was on the floor when Josie came around the corner and she laid very still and held her breath while Josie snuffled her and walked on her. It was funny. Afterwards she giggled and came to hug my legs as if to say "see, mommy, I was brave". The weather was beautiful so we played outside quite a bit.
Ya'll will never believe what I saw! I couldn't believe what I saw, I also couldn't believe I had my camera handy! I was driving down a road that goes through a nature preserve and along side the Minnesota river behind our apartment complex. It's a road I usually enjoy driving in all weather beause it's so senic and peaceful. This time, however, I was in a bit of a hurry because I was coming back from observing a student at his daycare way up in another suburb about 45 minutes north of Farmington. I was a bit frustrated by the driver in front of me who had slowed down to a crawl. I saw her sticking her head out of her window and couldn't figure out what she was looking at. Well then I passed the spot and saw 2 bald eagles! I've never even seen one outside of a zoo and here were two sitting in the trees as calm as you please. I pulled over and got out and they just sat there, so I grabbed the camera and snapped a couple of shots. I was totally overcome. It reall was amazing to see them sitting in the trees. I know, I know they are birds that are making a comeback and it is more and more common to see them but still......... Anyway, thought I'd finally share these since its been probably a month or so since I took the pictures.
See, I like to play the guitar just like Daddy, but if you ask me, mine is much cooler. It makes funny noises and sings. Of course Daddy's sounds funny when I drop things into the hole, isn't that what holes are for, to put things into?
