Pure Entertainment

Me and the kids went to a friend’s 2nd birthday party today at Pure Entertainment. The kids both had so much fun. Jayden went buck wild around the place and kept running by me saying, “Mom, I’m so sweaty!” He was all red in the face and out of breath, but that wasn’t going to slow him down. Thank goodness they were serving chicken fingers for lunch, a personal fav of Jayden’s (he asks for them for breakfast), or I don’t think I would of got him to take a break and cool off.

Happy Valentines Day!

or, as Willie and I always called it, Happy Singles Awareness Day!

For part of the kid’s presents this year, I decided to make them something. For Jayden I made him a flannel dinosaur pillow case, which sadly has already gotten a lot of use since it was opened this morning.



Jayden has been real sick for the past few days. He had the flu on Thursday and then Friday the flu seemed to turn into a cold, and now he’s all laid up on the couch. Poor kid.





For Willow, I made a little valentine dress. And for the 5 minutes she had it on today so I could try and take some pictures, she managed to get food on it! How the heck did she find food???? I figure she’s got a secret stash around somewhere…







For lunch, I made the kids and Royal some heart shaped sandwiches.



And then I finished up my heart sugar cookies by frosting them with some chocolate royal icing, Royal’s favorite.

Museum of World Treasures

We went to the Museum of World Treasures this afternoon because we had heard they had some dinosaur bones and we wanted to go check them out with Jayden. Come to find out, the dinosaur display here is the #1 dinosaur display in the world, because it is the only one with an almost complete (60-70%) skeleton of a T-Rex and a Daspletosaurus. Ivan, the T-Rex, is the 3rd most complete skeleton of a T-Rex in the world, and the first one to be on display with all it’s vertebrae being actual fossils. Who knew? Another reason to come visit me in Wichita! So I can show you Ivan! :)

There was lots of other things in the museum as well, like 2 mummies, lots of world war stuff, lots of American History stuff, 42 presidential signatures, but as most museums go, you can hardly take pictures anywhere, and really the only thing we (we being Jayden and his bossy self) were interested in were the dinosaurs, so somehow we kept coming back to that display.

Here is the Daspletosaurus killing another dinosaur



Here is Ivan and the Daspletosaurus - the buddy dinos who make Wichita more than just a dot on the map! (Can I get a woot woot?!?)



Here is the skull of a Triceratops



Jayden managed to find the video screen playing a BBC show about dinosaurs.



It was a tad graphic, and Jayden was bothered for the rest of the day about watching an Ornitholestes eat a baby Diplodocus right after it had hatched out of it’s egg. I mean, who wouldn’t be??? At least we stuck around long enough so Jayden could see all the dead Diplodocus’s brothers and sisters hatch out and run for cover in the bushes, so the “bad little meat eater” couldn’t get them.
Are you wondering how I know the name of all these dinosaurs? I read dinosaur books daily people, over, and over, and over.

Here is a concerned Jayden.



Good thing I steered him clear of the Civil War video that was playing, because as we walked by and I hurried Jayden on, I watched some confederate soldiers shoot some farmer and then hold his family hostage as he burned their house down. Glad I didn’t have to explain that one!

Here is a Xiphectinus Fish





And finally, a view of Ivan the Terrible T-Rex from the 2nd floor!

Jayden Sings :: You Are My Sunshine

Love the Snow

While I was getting lunch ready, Jayden told me he had “thought about it” and that it was going to be okay for him to play in the snow and ice outside, “right now”. So, out he went. And then I glanced out the window to see what he was doing and I found this:

Why Walk?

Whiskers

“I have whiskers, just like dad!”





Time for me to hide the blue highlighter. Jayden now has blue whiskers that don’t wash off very easily at all, and when I came home from my mini roadtrip with Kaylee this weekend, I found Willow with little blue dots on her head. :)