Yesterday we went to Licon Dairy. It's a place that makes asadero cheese, which is really good, and it has a great petting zoo. Rei loves the goats and the ducks. Ian is less sure of the animals, but he enjoyed throwing rocks in the pond. :)
The place has parrots, which dance and talk, doves, peacocks, chickens, a swan, and ducks. It has ostriches, a camel, bighorn sheep, longhorns, buffalo, goats and donkeys. :) It's totally free, too, which is also cool. ;)
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I've just been having a super time with my daughter and son. Something just kind of "clicked" last weekend, and while before, I felt like I was "managing" my kids, now I feel like we're being a family. I don't know how else to describe it.
Anyway, I've been teaching Rei to play dominoes using this $1.00 set I found at Target. It has animal pictures instead of numbers, so it's easier and more fun for her. She even asks me to play dominoes without any prompting. Another game she likes is Memory, which we play using a deck of "Noah's Ark" Animal cards I found at the Dollar Store. (Yeah, I'm frugal).
Rei has also started taking ballet dance lessons and jiu-jitsu. She likes both. Today, after class, I practiced some of the moves with her. She remembered them very well! I'm very proud of her.
My son likes to have me help him walk up and down and up and down the stairs. He can crawl up and down very well by himself, but he likes to hold on to me so that he can actually "walk" up the stairs like a grown up. It's cute. He has these velcro hands now that grip me all the time. I'll be walking from one room to another and suddenly velcro boy has my pant leg and won't let go. He just walks with me.
Yeah, that's all. We're all waiting for my husband to come home from Korea. I hope it will be soon, so he can see all this stuff happening. :)
Rei drew some pictures today. Just a few months ago, she couldn't even draw a circle. Now she's drawing faces with ears, noses, mouths and hair.
I am so proud of her. :D
Last weekend, on Sunday, I drove the kids up to White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. It's only about a 2 hour drive for me and quite honestly, I plan to go up there more often with the kids. I can't wait till my husband comes back from Korea and we can all go together. :)
Rei loved climbing on the dunes and Ian was just overwhelmed by all of the sand. He loves to play in the sand! Next time, I'm going to bring sleds for sliding down the dunes.
It's so beautiful there. I highly recommend to anyone that they visit White Sands if they're in the NM area. :)
Last week, we all went Trick or Treating. Ian was a little lion and Rei was a princess. They got a lot of candy, some of which I photographed here.
We went with some friends of mine from Fort Bliss, Laura and her husband, and also with my neighbor from across the street, Anna. One of the pictures shows Anna and her mom, Beatrice, when we went to their house for candy. :)
It was fun! I had a super time, and Rei loved it. Ian got tired about half-way through, but mostly, he seemed to enjoy the Halloween decorations and lights. He loved the pinwheel in one neighbor's yard.
I really like our neighborhood. People are friendly and some of them made haunted houses of their yards. Two haunted houses were really scary! One of them, Rei refused to go inside, and I went to get the candy for her. It was interesting inside the garage: they had strobe lights and used trash bags to create a really cool interior. A witch gives you candy after you walk through all of the shredded bags and strobes. Coolness.
Next Halloween, I hope that my husband can come with us. It's really fun to watch the kids running around on Halloween. :)
