"Feeding" the ducks

This week we are getting to play with our Britty and our new friend, Andrea. So far we are loving having two people to play with and have some individualized attention! Today we decided to head out and feed some ducks. It was not easy to find ducks to feed, but we finally found some geese that looked hungry and there was no sign saying not to feed to water foul, so it was game on!

...Or so we thought. turns out, ducks and geese are kind of afraid of two running, screaming toddlers. As soon as we made our way onto the deck area to feed them they headed further out in the water. Thankfully we are pretty easy to please, so we just spent some time throwing the bread into the water and had a great time! Maybe next time they will know that we come in peace and bring food and stick around to eat it!

All our bread floating down the river. Hopefully some sort of creature got to enjoy them before they dissolved!

Operation Birth Control?

Mom and Dad are out of town again, so we decided to put Operation Birth Control in full force again - we were getting up in the middle of the night, not taking good naps and being extra picky eaters. Perfect, right:?! But boy did we get the surprise of our lives when we had to go with Britty to the doctor yesterday morning. Did you know she's growing a baby in her tummy? Us either! She says the baby is coming "after Halloween" (November). I guess we really missed the mark! We had lots of talks with her this week and she said she is willing to pack up and move us to Canada with her and Dan before Mom and Dad get home or maybe draw up some adoption papers so she doesn't have to leave us. We're not so sure how Mom and Dad (or us!) will feel about that... 

Since we now have shortened time left together, we had an extra fun day today! We went to the mall and saw the fishies and made a new stuffed animal friend!

P loved touching the star fish in the touch pool

 More P :)

 Aidan tried, but was not a fan!

Then we went to build a new friend! Aidan picked a Monkey and Patrick picked a Dog. We grabbed a heart for each of them and had to rub it really hard to get it started!

 Here's P stepping on the pedal to fill up his puppy

 Poor Puppy needed surgery to fix his arm. Thankfully, he's expected to make a full recovery

 Aidan stepping on the pedal for Monkey

 A happy Patrick and his new pup

 Aidy loving on his new Monkey

 We were so good that we got to get a little baseball glove, bat and ball for them! We had so much fun today!!

Love,
Patrick and Aidan

Fun Friday - new indoor park edition!

We try to have "Fun Fridays" around here, meaning that every Friday we head out for something. We usually alternate between something close and something not as close. Today was a close kind of Friday, and since it was raining we decided to check out a new indoor park! Here's some pictures from our outing:

 Aidan riding the "bear car"

 Cruising together on the 4 wheeler

 P on the "bear car"

Wistfully watching the other kids swimming at the attached pool

What's that, you ask? Where was the indoor park? Oh, that was lame. We were done with it the minute we saw those grocery store vehicles you can put quarters it. (Funny thing, though. Brittany said we couldn't put quarters into these ones or we'd break them. I wonder why?) Now all we want to do is go back and go swimming! Maybe we already know where we want to go next Friday...!

Another trip to the museum

We got to go back to the museum today, and had so much fun! We're really getting old enough to enjoy pretending with all the things they have there.

It's important to hold hands - safety first!

P cooking up some food in the wok

 Our two chefs in the middle of a very busy kitchen

Rock star P ripping up a guitar solo!

 Rock star Aidey goes for the showier moves

 Just jammin together

Aidan blowing a big bubble

 Splashing around in the water and playing with ping pong balls. It doesn't get much better than that!

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Love, Aidan and Patrick

More Zoo?!

It's true! Today we went to another zoo near us and had a great time looking around at the animals!

The little model - always ready to strike a pose!

The busy bee - much more interested in the thing with wheels than the camera!

Checking out Buffalo

 A Mommy giraffe and her baby!

What a fun day at the zoo! Can you tell it's one of our favorite places to go?

Indoor gym

Today we went with some of our friends from school to a new indoor gym. It was so much fun! They had all kinds of things to run around and play with, and everything is padded so we got to be pretty adventurous.

They had a foam circle with a little wedge cut out that we sat in and rocked back and forth. As you can tell by his face, Aidan really liked it!

 Our favorite thing by far, though, was the foam pit. It's like a big swimming pool filled with these foam blocks, so Brittany would just throw us in and we could "swim" around for a bit. Maybe someday soon we'll be brave enough to jump in by ourselves.

(Brittany asked us to look at her and say "cheese", so Patrick the Ham gave his best model pose. What a funny boy!)

They have open gym every Friday, so we hope to go back and play with our friends again sometime!

Zoo!

For the month of April, the zoo near us had a farm exhibit with all kinds of baby animals that we went to see. It was a beautiful day and it wasn't too crowded, so we had a really great time!

 We saw wolves, but we call them big puppies, because that's really what they look like to us

 Pointing at some animals

 A cool bald eagle!

 The lynx, or another dog, depending on how you look at it

 Now for the cool part - the farm babies and petting zoo! We LOVED the goats!

 Checking out the sheep

 P laughing at the goat

The cows were so big!

They had chickens, but we were too early to see any babies. Darn!

 A baby cow!

 Easter Bunny?

A very, very big pig!!

 Patrick telling us all about the cows

 We even got to see a cow milking demonstration. Did you know that's where our milk comes from? We thought Joe Mauer got it since he's always on the front of the milk jog!

 Sleeping bears

And Aidan's favorite, the turtles!

We had such a fun day and can't wait for the weather to get nicer so we can spend more time at the zoo!