More City Museum

Because it was only 24 degrees outside, we were not able to do any climbing outside at the City Museum.  They have an amazing, fantastic climbing structure inside and out and we managed to find plenty of places to climb, crawl, slide, and explore without even stepping foot outside where the old airplane, and human habitrail towers high over the earth.

Getting ready to have some fun!

We spent the day at the museum doing lots of fun things...

Played in the balls

Cut out a duck snowflake

Unfolded it

and liked it so much she did it again with a dophin snowflake!

Ryan made a duck snowflake too!

 I made a dragonfly snowflake-So simple and so fun.

Playing in the balls

Emily met up with a Sumo Wrestler

Skate-less skateboard park

Wheee!

More Fun in St. Lou

We bundled up and went to the  Kids Science Museum...

We got to look through the walkway to the freeway down below.  There were radar guns so we could tell how fast the cars and trucks and busses were going.  At first Ryan was afraid to step on the window to the street.  It must have seemed like he might fall through!

Delaney

Reesie

Caroline

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Ryan and Emily Looking through the radar gun

My four little loves

City Museum, St Louis, MO

This is the seven story slide, you climb up a spiral staircase to the top of the building and slide down seven spiral stories! Wow! It is fast and dizzying This Sea Monster greets visitors at the door, Yep, totally recycled materials, those are shock absorbers painted by kids.

You can barely see the pipe organ in the shaft between these two buildings. When the organ plays while you are coming down that long slide, it is really cool!

Emily, Ryan and Caroline

Me and the kids at the magic show! It was silly but fun!

We spent the day at the City Museum. Such an interesting, active, creative place to spend the day. This was my second visit and we saw things we didnt even know were there. Like the seven story slide which used to be the chute in a shoe factory that they would send shoes downstairs in the space between two buildings-with the ginormous pipe organ which plays while you are sliding down the slide!

Loveland Honey

This Christmas, we were the lucky recipients of a few little bottles of liquid gold.

LOVELAND HONEY!

Janeese's dad Greg, keeps bees and harvests honey, and it is the most delicious honey ever.

It is fab on homemade biscuits or toast and a great relief for sore throats, disolved in a mug of hot, hot water. The flavor of this honey is out of this world!

Thanks for sharing, Lovelands, we think of you every time we enjoy your sweet gift!

Snow! Again!

In addition to
a White Christmas on Christmas Day,
and a "White Christmas" the day we celebrated Christmas with all the kids (except Scott)
This is the third snow storm we have had this winter. Finally, all the school kids who were hoping for a snow day got their wish !
In addition to having the day off from school,
there was plenty of snow to sled, build snowmen, and have snowball fights.
It was fun to see everyone out playing in the snow and having fun!

Thursday

Friday

View from our front porch!

Our Street! Covered with snow.