April 2023 Outings

We had a couple of outings in April.

First up:

Free day at the Discovery Center.

They loved watching the turtles.

And playing with the boat.

We made clay pinch pots together.  

We all made something different with the same items that we had available.  It's fun to see everyone's creativity.  

Sofie and Kira colored pictures.

The boys played with the water.

There was a lot to explore and do.

We did some of the Keva block challenges.

This is what the inside looks like.  The kids love that huge tunnel slide.  

We ate a quick lunch at home and then headed to Isak's first soccer game.  
While Isak practiced before the game, the rest of the kids played on the playground.

Sofie is getting so strong and good at the monkey bars!

Then we watched Isak's game.  It's a terrible picture but Isak is in it.  

Nels is the assistant coach.  So that's fun too!

We got everyone a slushy at Sonic and then Nels got a few things at Costco while the kids drank their slushy.  

April 28th Friday - I got to go on a field trip with Sofie and Noah's class.  We went to the Barfield Park Wilderness Station.  I really enjoyed it and learned a lot too.  

We listened to this guy tell us about snakes, turtles, owls, birds and more.

Here's an Ostrich egg and next to it is the smallest egg from a hummingbird.  

Here's a screech owl.  

Sofie and Noah were pretty good and it was fun to watch them learn.

We went on a little hike and they talked to us about plants.  

Here's their class...

They got to look at things with a magnifying glass and binoculars.  

We ate lunch together.

Then they played and played on the playground.  Fun day with these two.

Another Saturday Soccer game.  

Playing while we wait for the game to start.

Sofie made a sign "Go Isak Go!"  :)

Then we went to Barnes and Noble.  Why?  Because I was finally buying Sofie and Noah their reward for finishing the 100 reading lessons.  So they each picked out a book.  

We all enjoyed looking around the bookstore and finding new books that we can hopefully check out at the library for free.  I forgot how expensive books are!  But I'm glad we bought them these books.  It was so cute to watch both of them immediately reading their books that they get to keep forever.  😄

After the bookstore, we needed to stop at Kroger and replenish our ice cream supply.  Everyone chose a carton.  So we ended up with six.  

And those were our outings for April.