Kia is officially tall enough that she doesn’t need a booster seat, and we let Laurie be the first to drive her around like that. To say that Kia is ecstatic about it is still an understatement. Arwyn is jealous,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was a great time with good weather. Some of the animals weren’t very active first thing in the morning, but who can blame them? The otters were their normal, adorable selves; the polar bears got up nice and close[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Snakes, not in a plane! The girls absolutely loved the snakes, but the thought of them eating their much-loved gerbils was an easy deal-breaker. Made things easy on us… though having a pet snake would be cool. Anyway, the con[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
Kia did a great job of staying chill, even if she had some assistance in that. No issues at all; she just zoned out on the movie while the gas and the shot numbed her up. She didn’t really care[…]↓ 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…