Our Outdoor Girl

Gobble, Gobble

Who knew we could combine turkey and dessert?! Next year we just need to work for a little better eyes.

Happy....Thanksgiving?

No your eyes are not deceiving you. We celebrated Thanksgiving by going to the Botanical Garden's annual holiday train show.

The detail of the scenes is pretty incredible.

Nicholas' favorite part of the show. The skiers actually went down the slope.

The Year of the Frog

We were having one of those days where we needed to get out of the house after naps, and also a day where the temp was a balmy 55 degrees, so we loaded up the wagon in the car, drove to the zoo...and discovered that somewhere between home and the zoo, an arctic gale had begun to blow. Two words....wind chill. It is never good to drive to the zoo, park the car, then realize that the zoo is not such a great idea. So instead of leaving, we left the wagon in the car and decided to explore all the indoor zoo activities. Turns out that for the Year of the Frog (who knew?) the zoo has a huge amphibian exhibit on display. Indoors. Yea!

We found a log that was great for standing on...


climbing through...

and jumping off!

Our favorite frog - the African clawed frog

Nicholas saw these frogs and said "Mama, we could sit on these and you could take our picture!"

We then headed off to the indoor portion of the Children's Zoo. Charlotte fell in love with the guinea pigs and the little foxes (somehow I got no pictures!). The foxes were barking at each other...and Charlotte was chiming right in with them. She does love animals!

GEICO is sponsoring a traveling exhibit of geckos. Think it looks like this one?

After all this indoor fun, we said goodbye to the zoo and headed for home. We'll be back!

In Case You Had Doubts Due to the Number of Recent Princess Posts...

We've listened to a lot of kid music in the kitchen lately, but the last few days we've been listening to Keith Urban. Even Keith Urban can get old after hours and hours, so I dug out a few CDs that I thought Nicholas would like. I brought out a Dixie Chicks album and reminded him that he likes the Dixie Chicks (he likes the song "Ready to Run"). He said very seriously "Oh yes. I LIKE chicks." Enough said.

What's He Hiding??

He really, really, REALLY wanted the princess Pull-ups at Sam's today.

Who could resist that face??

Career Night at the Kings

Nicholas explored two career options this afternoon/evening:

#1 - Professional Pizza Maker - After lunch today at Dewey's (where the kitchen is glassed in and viewable to all those who want to watch the pizza making magic), Nicholas spent the whole way home pretending his stocking cap was a pizza that he was dipping in "powder" and flipping it around the car. The "pizza" then went into the fridge at home. After dinner tonight I pulled the cap out of the fridge only to have the whole thing play out again at home...although the kitchen offered much more room for high tosses.

Working the dough...

It's up!

And caught!

#2 - Hair Stylist - Nicholas was playing with his tool set when it occurred to him (I guess) that the toy power drill was similar in sound to the clippers that Shawn had used to cut his hair. He proceeded to try to use the drill on Charlotte's head. I nixed that, but told him he could use it on himself or me. He then got a spray bottle and brush and went full blown into stylist mode. When I referred to him as Nicholas, he told me to call him Mr. Shawn....and he called me "Mr. Mom". At the end he said "You were so patient!" and gave me a pretend cookie, which is what Shawn did the other night. I think Nicholas will be sadly disappointed when he realizes that cookies do not always follow haircuts. But maybe in his salon they will.