So on Tuesday Da took a day off to excursion with Brennan and the family. First Brennan's pre-school had a field trip to find bugs. It was a great day to get to know nature. Fun fun fun.
The instructor is showing books of what types of bugs and insects are in the park and how they play a part in our eco-system.
Just typical park bugs..but it was fun.
Blackhills Park is great with kids to play and run around and see nature. Great view.
And now onto the fun things!!!..
Brennan and Clayton always talk about riding in the train b/c they have a wooden train set and always see the trains going to grandpa's house. So we took this day to go to DC with them in the train. We purposedly sat in the front seat to get a nice view. You can tell someone likes it.
Crazy mom....but Brennan is all into seeing the train
We went to the Smithsonian and there was a live bug exhibit. The boys got to see a live cricket..a pretty big one too.
Mom wouldn't hold the hissing cockroach..so it will have to do. And there were other bugs/worms too that mom wouldn't hold and the boys ran out of patience.
That spider is the size of Clayton's head..nice.
A little rest maybe? or just Clayton having fun?
A giraffe !! yeah....
Onto the butterfly live exhibit. There lots of live and very beautiful butterflies everywhere for the boys to see (but no touching) It was great.
Hm...no touching..oh well..hehehe
Afterwards we had a picnic at The Mall. Just beautiful. We also had company to have lunch with us too. Mr.Squirrel was brave enough to get food straight from Brennan's hand. It was pretty cool.
And we end the day with kite flying-though there was no wind, bubble blowing down on the mall and the grand finale of both brothers getting (by force, not photoshop) to have this picture. It think its great!
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Wow, what a great day! Does that mean that the insect exhibit is finally open again at Natural History?
What a great way to take the day off work!
The last pic is cute. Clayton is starting to look less shy.
Are u sure that's a chipmunk? It looks like a squirrel to me! lol
Anyway cute pics.. you guys seem to go to lots of "sightseeing" places. Maybe we should make a trip down there to all those fun places u guys have gone to.
Mel,
You are right. Updated.
It's good to see that your kids love bugs, are they planning on pursuing careers in science and biology :P I highly recommend it :)