How much fun can you have in five days?

If you're Kat....you can have TONS of fun. We went to Cleveland over the holiday weekend. Our adoption agency is located there and they have a reunion at the Cleveland Zoo every year. We stayed at Dan's cousins' Jim & Madeline's house and they gave us a quick tour of the town and took us to a Memorial Day Parade. And were fabulous hosts.
Today, as summer apparently appeared with a vengeance.
The new elephant exhibit. The Zoo is beautiful. And huge. We hardly saw any of it.
Today. The girls all had muddy bottoms (and everything else), so I had to encourage them and take their picture.

At the parade. They threw candy and someone really enjoyed that!
The awesome ice cream place Jim & Madeline too us to. They had a kid-sized table and chairs. So cute.
Kat and her cousin. Let's see...Hilda is Kat's grandad's cousin, so that makes them first cousins twice removed.
Someone MAY have been a little sticky after the cotton candy. She went right to the tub when we got back to Jim & Madeline's.
Love this bathing suit. And the adorable kid in it!
Koala bear at the zoo.
Pics by Kat.

At the carnival the night before the picnic. She is rocking those glasses.

Elephant Cupcakes

Kat wanted to celebrate her birthday at preschool (and since it's in August and school ends in 2 weeks, we had to hurry). She wanted elephant cupcakes. I think they eventually came out pretty cute (but there's a LOT of frosting on those things- glad I won't be spending 5 hours with 17 STICKY little munchkins who ate these critters!).

Update

In addition to posting the adorable video and 2 pics below (well, one pic is adorable), we also, at long last, got to vote for our new Congressperson.

After the last one bailed instantly months ago when the media got a whiff of his transsexual perversion, and craigslist, he became the absolutely lamest republican sex scandal of the decade so far. Anyway, so we got to vote for a new representative. I voted for the candidate who I thought (hoped) would be the most perverse, perverted and entertaining in the face of scandal. The last guy was just so lame! We want razzle-dazzle and excitement from our congressional scandals. Hopefully the new member of the house will spice things up for our (my) entertainment!

Interpretive dance

This video kills me..... The dancers are Kat and Emily, and Hannah is the 'musician'.

Talk about fur flying....

So serious

Fwd: The definition of a symbiotic relationship

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> I missed the best part where he was licking the spilled cereal/milk off her belly and she was giggling.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day. We FINALLY saw the sun. Apparently Mom & Dad brought it back from Florida with them. It was great to see all three of them. Kat was happy to see Grandpa & Grandma.


I was walking the dogs and just loved the light of this shot.
The girls playing Dora bingo at G & G's trailer at the Vikings. Wearing the new hats that Grandma gave them.
Flat Hunter was here from Calgary with us for a few days. He enjoyed Niagara Falls. And then he went AWOL. I assume he will turn up someday in the midst of a new adventure. We will see.

Recent pics, etc

Dan's cousin Barb and 2 of her daughters were in town this weekend for some soccer games. This is Juliette. The games were at Nichols, so we took J and headed across the street to the zoo. Juliette is now Kat's 'best friend'.




A good way to stay warm at a cool and wet soccer game.
Love the shades!
Kat and the Easter Bunny at the Vikings' Easter Egg hunt. It was a really fun event. They did a great job, it was a beautiful sunny day. Kat found lots of eggs, including the golden egg that won her an adorable duckling puppet.

Not a lot happening here. It's still raining and cold (40s-50s). We have had a very few nice days interspersed in with the rain. I got the grass cut on Easter Sunday, but it looks like it's time to do it again. If it stops raining long enough.