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We had a great day today.  Caleb joins us on Tuesdays and since playgroup was canceled, we headed off to the zoo.  It wasn’t really a zoo day today necessarily, the weather was high about 58 degrees, it poured during the night before  and it looked like the skies were going to open up any minute.  But we had 4 train tickets (thank you Ewings!) that expired today and there were four of us (George doesn’t count yet).  So we made like we lived in Seattle and didn’t let the weather dictate our plans.  It was so fun!  As you can see from the picture…very few people had the same idea as us!

We hit the train first, in case we were rained out, then the Insectarium and ended at the somewhat new ZOOmagination Station.  The ZOOmagination station is awesome.  It’s basically a discovery room where there is tons of stuff for all the kids to get into animal/nature related.  It is FREE! and you go for 45 minute sessions that start every hour.  It’s one of my new favorite things.

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Riley came over and we built a fairy house in the backyard.  Although she told me there were no such thing as fairies- I convinced her otherwise.  This is so unlike me – I don’t even know how to talk about Santa Claus b/c I never grew up believing in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or other magical creatures.  But once I got going describing fairies to her – I couldn’t stop!!! Part of me was ashamed that I was lying to a 5-year-old, but the other part of me was thrilled that I was instilling in her a sense of wonder about “another world.” There is something important about kids going up with this wonder of an outside world.  I don’t know what it is exactly, maybe just for the fact that they do grow up so fast and the harshness of the  real world leaves no room for fairies.

Anyways – here’s a picture of our fairy house.  It was built mainly out of sticks, landscaped with white rock, the roof was covered in moss and decorated with sweet pea flowers.  And although you can’t see it from the picture there is a locust shell protecting intruders on the roof (the boys idea of course). What’s crazy about this photo is that I could not get a clear picture of it – it kept turning out kinda foggy…I’d like to think it had something to do with the fairies.