Butterfly House

After missing the Butterfly Museum on Valentine's Day, we finally made it there last week. There's a lot more to the place than just seeing butterflies fly around.

Future scientist- I like the look of that! Dash and Liam liked exploring all the exhibits.

We saw some other bugs before we saw the feature insects.

How'd you like to find that tucked in the corner of your living room?

Ah, getting closer. Butterflies from the front.

Butterflies from the back..

Grey didn't much like the indoor, museum stuff. Too much bending over causing him to stare at the floor.

But we finally got into the Butterfly House. There were butterflies everywhere, it was so lovely!

Liam and Dash have been talking about the "buhfly haus" every day since but you wouldn't have expected them to while they were there. They were so impatient walking through the place. I'd have liked to take a seat and watch them flutter about but the boys just kept tugging me along. They liked it, yes, but not enough keep them from their busy pace.

This is my favorite shot of the day. I constantly forget that Sean doesn't really like butterflies. Who doesn't like butterflies?! My husband. He gets weirded out by their creepy bodies. So he took one for the team by going to the museum.

But Grey, oh boy, Grey liked it most of all. Immediately he was catching sight of a butterfly and following it along.

It makes sense, I suppose. They're colorful and move at just the right pace for him to follow. It was quite sweet to watch.

So if it wasn't his brother's favorite activity, at least he really enjoyed it.

Outside of the museum, I found Horton's pink fluffy flower. I kept listening for a Who but maybe it was too windy.

There was also a big globe that sits in a bowl of water and you can spin it all around.

Those boys, they're going to move the earth, they are.

KO

This kid knocks me out.

Four Legs

When I bought them these stools, this isn't quite what I intended.

But since when have they been using their toys the way I've intended.

Little daredevils. I think they're ready to join the circus!

T-Shirts

Whenever the twinners get their clothes wet, usually by playing in the rain, I like to put them in some of my old T-shirts. I don't know what it is but I think they look so cute.

I even get Grey in on the action. Because if something's cute on a two year old, you bet your button that it's super cute on the babe.

Now let the goofballing begin!

Raking

The leaves fall a little later in Houston, so we've just recently been raking leaves. Okay, maybe we've been putting it off for two months and now there's two big brown patches in the yard. What of it?

Liam and Dash were busy helping us.

Or, you know, not helping.

But mostly helping. Ahem, I should say "helping."

Who knew raking leaves could be so fun?

Chalked

What's Liam and Dash's favorite chalk activity?

Body outlines.

And they make all sorts of funny faces when we do it. Where did that even come from?

Coming in at a close second favorite activity is shoving the chalk in the nearby utility boxes. There's a little hole that is just the right size that if you really try, you can pop a chalk right in there. I've venture a guess that half our chalk supply is in that there plastic cover.

Singular

As cute as they are as copilots, they still like to take the reigns on their own from time to time.

A Family Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day, we went out to eat.

All five of us. Romantic! We were going to visit a butterfly museum that day but nap schedules prevented the outing. So we fed some fish instead.

When we first got there, there was a lady feeding fish with left over chips. She got so excited to see Liam and Dash and immediately started giving them chips to throw in the water. We kept trying to mention that we brought bread but she was way too thrilled to be sharing her chips.

And the kids were happy to oblige her.

And they tried climbing the fence because their such boys.

No fence-climbing for his little man. I held tight to him.

We stayed long enough to greet the nightfall.

The buildings' lights were dazzling in the water.

Sean and I could enjoy the pretty water ripples while Dash and Liam ran around like crazies.

A kind soul offered to take our family photo. How thoughtful. Hope you too had a happy (but less blurry) Valentine's!

Ice Cream Boys

Dash likes his ice cream.

Liam likes his ice cream.

Sean likes his ice cream.

Grey... aw, poor Grey, no ice cream yet. The woes of babyhood.

Raspberry Fingers

Why not?

Wink

Hey Liam, can I see your wink? For Valentine's Day?

Yes! [wink]

Hey Dash, can I see your wink?

...Nooo. [scowl]

Okay, how about if you guys make this face. [surprised face]

Ahhh! [surprised face]

...Noooo. [exasperated face]

Grey? A wink? For me?

[grunty but still cute face]
Good enough!

Okay, sweetheart, you're going to wink for me, right?

Easy peasy. [pseudo-wink]

Two out of four aint bad.