Nature Walk

This is what a nature walk looks like with a four year old girl.

This is what a nature walk looks like with a three year old boy.

I love them soooooooooooo much :)

Family Fun Day

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We had a great day yesterday. We went to breakfast, hiked around the Arboretum, and then went and saw Kung Fu Panda 2.

I learned a lot yesterday.

Such as:

1. Having a bag full of "restaurant only" activities is brilliant. I stole the idea from a friend of mine. And now my kids play quietly at the table and my husband and I can have a (gasp!) grown up conversation.

2. My son can put away three bowls of Fruit Loops, 3 pancakes, and 5 slices of bacon at Hometown Buffet.

3. When hiking around the Arboretum, look up. That is where the butterflies dance, according to Girlie.

4. Boyo will roll down a dirt hill then bounce up, declaring, "I faw! I go ka-boom!" Then he will run away.

5. After he does that, he will let off a cloud of dust any time he moves or is touched. He truly is Pig Pen.

6. My son has an unholy fear of tree roots.

7. Boyo is not old enough to sit through a movie that is longer than 65 minutes.

8. A tube of mini MnM's will last for 65 minutes.

9. A newborn will sleep through all of this.

Fullerton Arboretum

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It rained this past weekend.

My kids don't do well when they are locked in the house because of rain.

So when we got up on Saturday and saw that it wasn't raining yet, my husband and I threw them in the car and took them down to the Fullerton Arboretum in the hopes that hiking around nature would make them tired and encourage them to nap when we got home.

And we had a great time (at first).

We "visited" Dr. Clark (he wasn't home) ...




... we climbed trees...



... we slid in the dirt...
... we hunted for "tigers and Baloo" (watch The Jungle Book) ...



...and then Boyo decided to go swimming in the pond. He didn't know if he should panic or splash when he fell in. He started panicking when everyone standing around us started panicking.

And what did I, as Mother of the Year, do?

I laughed like a loon.

Motherhood

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Someone told me once that motherhood is a force of nature.

I didn't know how forceful I could be until I had my kids.

I like being a force of nature.