To be fair, the fireflies have been swarming this year, so there were lovely, dancing lights everywhere. The girls were running all over the place to catch them, which was fine where we were just chilling in lawn chairs for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The gerbils are very cute, I’ll give them that, but I think it’ll take a long time to get them used to being held. If nothing else, they both seem eager to explore everything and everywhere, so hard to contain. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, 80s movies were awesome, but they threw in a lot more adult humour than I remembered. Hopefully, it all went over the girls’ heads just like it did mine at their age. Also, it has been decided that Johnny[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The show is narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, and she’s a pretty good story-teller, which keeps things interesting, too. The videography is very impressive, as well, and I have to wonder how many hours of filming it took to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn will sometimes interpret things in a very odd way, and this one of those “ermergerd, that is NOT what we meant!” type of moments. Thankfully, she wasn’t planning on “removing” the competition, she just thought that she couldn’t achieve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was a really fun time for both the kids and the adults, as many of the guests were friends to us separately, so it was good to see a lot of them. The girls, of course, were instantly friends[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kia likes looking at bugs (not spiders, those are different), but she’s still very picky about which ones she’ll touch. Fireflies actually have a chance of being acceptable. Arwyn? Well, she has limits, but as long as she knows it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mooville, for those not in the know, is a local dairy/ice cream place which also has a small petting zoo of goats, sheep, a rooster, and a rabbit, all of which they sell feed for. The animals are very well[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What? Kids want to watch the same movie again five minutes after it finishes? Craziness! We don’t let them do that, but we will let them listen to the soundtrack repeatedly, so long as it’s not annoying. Movie had some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They did, indeed, have a lot of fun, even with all the falling that they did. They’ve been on skates a couple times in the driveway, but while that had the added challenge of a slope, they were also being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…