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SWEET HOME ALBAMA!

                                        SWEET HOME ALABAMA:
Hi guys how are you doing today? I have a awesome adventure from the dino's  perspective  on a trip to Alabama. before we start Sid is a spinosaurus and Eve the parasaroulophuse. so let's get started:
                                                                 day 1...
"Wow an adventure I wonder where we are going today?" said Sid.

"Some place called Alabama." said Eve.

 "Alabama?" said Sid.

"Yeah Alabama." said Eve.

"Alabama like the song sweet home Alabama". said Sid.

"Yes Alabama where else China?"  said  Eve.

We still have a blog!

I'm thinking its time to get the blog up and running again. The kids and I are planning a little road trip and I think this might be a good time to restart the blog.

So stay tuned and see what happens.

Shall we post again?

So as the school year is coming to a close, I thought it might be time to start up he old blog again. Hoping to get the kids involved in doing some posting this summer.

Currently, evie is finishing up Girl Scouts for the year and Sloan is starting out on a new adventure. He gets to try a summer workshop at Clarksyon Village Players. It will be fun to seem ow his acting grows working at this new to him, theater.

Here birdie birdie birdie

Birding! Mom, mom, mom, is it today?
Yes.
Really?
Yes
Evie, mom said yes. sheesh
And Julie is coming too?
Yep.
Sweeeeeet!

That's right, the kids wanted to go birding. After all, if watching birdies in your backyard is fun, it must be better to see some in other places too!
And there was Franklin Nature center nearby that we hadn't been to, so we invited a friend and headed off to find some birds.

Not only did we see lots of cool animals but it was lovely and warm and there were cookies (cause Sloan had some packed in his medical kit).

Sloan definately saw the most creatures (Julie and me were having fun racing around and being butterflies). And Julie had the coolist glittery binoculars tat she made herself.
But we saw some birds... and a deer (oooh) and another bird.. and a frog. Wow, it was so fun.

Order in the Court?

So we did a couple of court cases - Evie and I watched some videos about courts and read a book and we made note cards for each position in the court and what they do so that people could decide who they wanted to be! It was pretty cool.

The Case of the Stolen Cookies

The Case of the Turned off Movie

and a third one I can't remember. But I DO know we had a lot of fun and their were JUSTICE CUPCAKES for afterwards.. so that was really good.

 I also see that mom still can't get the hang of laying one of these posts out and having photos in it. 

Okay gotta go. 

Wow it has definatly been a long time since we've updated this blog.
Really sorry about that.
Well, its time to restart things!
What better way than with a day in court
No, no don't worry, this was a FUN court. And it was in our house... with our friends and puppets... so it was okay... trust me.

Here, maybe its better if I start with HOW this came about...
It started when me (Sloan) learned about those 3 branches of government. Legis-latured? something like that... and the executive (you know thePresident?) and the judges. Well we didn't learn much about the judges, just the other two right, and I wanted to know what the judges one did... so mom asked if I wanted to do a court day.
Of course I said YEA! Cause court party!

Lawyer for the defense questions her client

Witness cross examination of the defense client

This witness is hostile 

Its hard to swear on the ipad and hold your pretzels

Plaintiff lawyer questioning a witness

Court reports debate the fine points of their transcriptions

Bailiff Ellie swears in  caption

Best quote was Evie "Do you promise to the the whole truth and all of the lies?"

Lawyer for the plaintiff questions a witness in the case of the Stopped Movie

Bailiff Ellie swearing in the monkey witness

Art Museum Adventure!

The adventures of Sloan and Evelyn!

Today we went to the Detroit Museum of Arts and got ice cream (not at the museum but after).

We saw different things and petted the donkey with the golden butt!

Here is Spiny with one of the outdoor sculptures ... and here is Evelyn looking at something (Mom note: This is the native american exhibit and she is playing with the map that shows how control of the land changed)


Here are our guests for our travelling, Ms. Sandy and Mr. Russ

Here we are touching the donkey with the shiny butt!

The only sculpture you can touch in the museum.








Sloan: Then we had lunch-I ate a chocolate sundae and had chocolate milk and guess what?
           I had a picture with my Orca! He was helping me write my journal.
Evelyn: I'm showing spiny my journal and showing him how to write.

Sloan: Here I am eating our chocolate sundaes
and orca is swimming through the ocean                    Evie: I'm eating chocolate and so is spiny

    Mr. Russ had to fight Spiny for his fries!                                    

                                                                         Ms. Sandy was able to eat before Spiny found her wings.


(Mom note: Now that the millage has gone through for the Arts Association the counties who voted yes get free admission to the DIA. So if you are in one of those counties and haven't gone, take an hour or two and head down to check it out)

Planes and more planes and some more planes and ... do you think there might be a spaceship?

Well Mommy just pointed out that Evie and me need to do more visiting around here and that we didn't post anything for a Really REALLY long time.

And I thought AIRPLANES!

Mommy got the information for this show which is REALLY close so we are going to go (yes!) and think you should too. Unless airplanes make you sick. Then you shouldn't.
But maybe you should try cause you can go for a ride in a REAL old plane and if you go to the site it counts down to the day... very cool.
That's all
Sloan


(Mom note: this is happening at the Oakland County International Airport; 6500 Highland Road Waterford MI)

The 27th annual Airport Open House / Air Show will take place on Sunday, August 26 from 10-4p.  Parking is $5.00.  A special publication will be available in Sunday's Oakland Press.  Additional information is available at:  http://www.ociaopenhouse.org/

We are pleased to announce that the 1929 Ford Tri-Motor will be at Oakland County International Airport August 23-26.  Rides will be available.  For additional information, please use the following link:  http://www.airventuremuseum.org/fordtrimotor/

http://www.oakgov.com/aviation/

NATURE listings

So mom found us this list of local Nature Centers. Now to decide where to go first...

So many choices. Which one would you go to first?

Art hunt part 2

In honor of the DIA's 125th anniversary - we've hunted down the next painting.

Mom says this one is Judith and maidservent with head of Holofernes.

Anyone else hunting artwork?

The art hunt is on!

I think we talked about the DIA 125th anniversary art hunt! Go to this link for more information. But hurry, its only on through end of November! (https://sites.google.com/site/diainsideout/)

Well just outside of the Cranbrook Institute of Science is this cool art piece!

Its The Plaza San Marco by Canaletto

Go see what cool art you can find (and hey, these pieces you can touch without getting yelled at!)

Dinosaurs come to Bloomfield Hills!

So one of the great things about this area is Cranbrook (mostly cause while it always has cool stuff - about once a year or every two years they get cool dinosaurs. And if there's one thing Evie and I love... well its dinos.

So Evie and I finally got to go to the new dinosaur exhibit at the Cranbrook Institute of Science. Dinosaurs: Land, air and sea! http://science.cranbrook.edu/

Wow it was cool and spoooooky! So we went and saw the little play area first - till evie got comfortable with the noise. She's a baby so it takes her longer. They have these sounds as if you were actually there with them and your gonna get attacked! (Okay maybe not)

Mommy was impressed, I could immediately pick out the Dromaeosaurus, Protoceratops, Allosaurus and Elasmosaurus, velociraptor and some others. Then there were a bunch I hadn't heard off, like this one thats related to the dromaeosaurus but not its a bambi...saurus thingy.

Anyway it was really cool and we didn't have enough time (we went after school and only had an hour). We are harrassing mom to go back.

Dinosaurs!

We were all ROAR and they were all Roar and there were other ids and then BOOM ex- exc-all gone then more and they are really cool!

Oh and don't forget to look up!

Not so much travel lately

Gosh, I just realized we haven't been going anywhere recently. Well, not physically anyway.

But Evie and I have been traveling lots by book and little pirate ship.

Well we were just at our grandma and Juba Stanley and they gave us a globe. (Though daddy keeps pointing out that some of the places on it have changed names now). So the other day we traveled to Hawaii and to different places in Michigan. Though its lots harder to find a good playground on a globe than it is in real life.

Travel with daddy

So Evie and I, we like to go to Waterford Oaks. Its near, its fun, its got lots and lots of things to climb (which we like).

Well, I had forgotten that we've never taken daddy there. I remembered when he yelled at us to get off the rocks. If you haven't been there before, there are lots of rock walls to climb - the cool part... they are actual rocks. Sometimes this seems to confuse parents (like daddy thinking we needed to stay off them). But I explained that here we could climb everything... once he understood... daddy had fun climbing the rocks up and down too. I think Eve sums it up best...

Daddy=Mountain Goat

Now go climb some rocks!

The Art of Geocaching!

I wanted to go geocaching since we went camping. Now my mom found this thing where the Detroit Institute of Arts has this geocache where you can find big art pieces all around town and different counties. This one below is in my town just near the library. And evie and I got to go hunt it dow. Now everytime we go to the library we go check on it to make sure its still there.

If you want lots of cool art and lots of geocaching fun check out this link. Oh and you don't have to have the GPS thingy, the link below will give you locations. That way everyone can play. See you at the artwork!

http://www.dia.org/calendar/special-event.aspx?id=2472&iid=

Volunteers are awesome!

Okay Evie and I don't volunteer, we have Mom for that. But we got invited to a really cool party for the Oakland County Volunteers yesterday at Independence Oaks.

I always like the nature center (Wint).

I liked the puppets (they have all these animal puppets to play with and I decided that the spider had a birthday and all the animals were there for the party. But then I decided that all the baby animals were having their autumn birthday (cause they have one each season) and it was a big party and mommy possum took the other animals for a ride on her back and yeah.

But then we went to this star lab and I liked the stars really lots. I didn't like the dark, when it got really dark I couldn't see - but then the stars came on and it was way cool. I liked it when he put on the cylinder that showed the greek star groups. (My favorite was the eagle).

The puppets were okay and the starlab thingy was neat (but I made daddy leave cause I couldn't just run from one side to the other and back.) I liked the s'more making and kayaking. I made mommy take me out on one of the kayaks. I liked it lots (even got to use the paddle) when mommy went where I wanted her too it was good. Sometimes I had to correct her steering though.

Oh and there was lots of games and geocaching. I like geocaching we got to go around the park. But then I made mommy and daddy take us back to the nature center - those puppets needed to finish their birthday party.

A long and exciting day... I wonder when I get my nap...

The perfect park

While Sloan was at school I've taken over the posting. Today mommy took me to a playdate at Depot Park in Clarkston

Squee, so cool!

Actual merry-go-round, ducks, slides, walking path, merry-go-round, and yeah a really pretty day!

Exercise, ye ha!

Have been trying to find new different places to exercise. While I enjoy running around the backyard, some days there's just not enough bars to duck under or pull myself up. So I like to make Mommy take me out to Waterford Oaks County park.

Just past the playscape and at the beginning of a trail going into the woods there is this exercise area. (Man I love this!) Ican swing and pull up and... okay I just don't understand situps... but will!

S'more camping

The ghosts are hard to see, but if you spin really quickly with your flashlight you might catch a glimpse. Well that was what my one friend told me. Wow, ghost stories are really cool!

Even better with some warm cider, freshly burned marshmallows stuck on chocolate with graham crackers keeping them together.

Yeah that was a good night.

A is for Addison Oaks, B is for Bacon, C is for camping!

Camping! Tents! Running around hee hee!

Sorry, Evie still doesn't have many words but she was really excited when I told her we were going camping this weekend. We practiced putting up the tents last week (we wanted to practice sleeping outdoors).

It was exciting getting the car packed up, then heading out to the Addison Oaks. We got there just before sunset and got to watch the evening darken as we ran around exploring the campsite. Our friends joined us and then it was all games of tag and lots of fun running around and letting the parents do all the hard work. We even had a tent just for playing (you know in case it rained or Evie and her friend E needed to be contained).

It was cool, there was an open area to run around and play tag, there was bike riding around the driving circle.

Saturday started off with rain, rain and more rain... Its okay though, we were prepared. One of the families had a pop-up camper and we made up stories with the stuffed animals. Did you know that elephants like to share pizza with pink bunnies and Spottie the dog?

Once the rains stopped we were off to hunt treasures! (Find some geocaches) Oh and treasure in German is Schatz. We decided we were the Schatz Hunters! Off we went tracking here and there. Taking turns with one of the GPS thingies. It was cool to see how it changed the direction when I turned. Or how it would count down where we were.

It was crazy, you know at first it was cool, walking through this cool forest then we found an apple tree surrounded by oak and maple trees, a fat brown catapillar (he looked like he had a little face), then we found acorns, more oak leaves, and the direction North.

Then I it did get a bit boring, I mean everything started to look alike and then... we suddenly were at the location and hunting to find our treasure (mom spotted it first and then how cool! We found our first schatz!) After that we loved it. In fact we even found a treasure that wasn't on our list. Yeah, we are that good!

Then even better... we hid our own schatz. I can't wait till someone finds it.

Though less fun was the way back (well we did hike for about 3 hours). Oh but we saw the coolest frog and lots of mountain bikers and other hikers.

Back at camp it was hot dogs wrapped in bread and cooked on a stick then off to the play structure.