Sunday, June 6, 2010

trip to Iowa

Sorry for not posting much lately!  We spent last week in Iowa with Hudson’s Papa and Binga and his cousins and then had a garage sale this week so we’ve been busy.  Garage sale is over (for now – we’re having another one in 2 weeks at my mom’s to try and get rid of more junk!) so I finally feel up to blogging.  Being out in the sun wears you out!  I have been going to bed with Hudson it seems like the last few nights!!

So here’s some video and pics of our week in Iowa.  As you will see the kids had LOTS of fun playing together, despite all the hitting and a little bit of fighting! 

I took the boys to the park one afternoon and we ended up spending most of the time playing in the tunnel.  They loved running through it and yelling.

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even though it was a little muddy!!

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One afternoon we played with water balloons.  That was Hudson’s first real experience playing with them.  I thought he’d love throwing them and making them pop, but he preferred to just carry around as many as he possibly could.  After they were all gone he looked around and said “Mom, the balloons are all extinct.”!  Guess we’ve been reading too many dinosaur books!

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I saw this idea for homemade bird feeders on a blog and thought it would be fun to do.  Papa and Binga have lots of birds and squirrels – way more than we have at our house, so it was definitely better to do up there.   We hunted for the perfect sticks, then covered them in peanut butter and then rolled them in the bird seed.

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The next morning all but one stick was totally eaten!

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There’s also a fun park close by that has  some cool climbing stuff on it.  There was a rope bridge that Hudson really liked, as well as the spider web you could crawl on and a fun – fast – slide!

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