Boys are 3!!

Jaafe is back!!  And lucky me....he dragged another dead animal home with him!  ;/  Jaafe was in Alaska for almost 3 weeks this trip!  The kids starting asking where he was and when he would be back about a week in.  We really missed him this time.  ;))

Hudson and Steel found this keyboard in the back of the closet once again!  I love when they play together.  This thing is LOUD though!  8.20.14

So Jaaten LOVES mermaids!!  My sister-in-law sent me a link to a company that sells these mermaid tails.  Who knew!!  Thanks Aunt Kiss!!  She loves it!  AND she can totally swim in it!! 8.20.14

Steel and Hudson's 3rd birthday was August 21st.  Grammie and Papa were in town so we all went to Butterfly Wonderland in Scottsdale.  It was really cool.  The kids loved it but it was hard to get a 5 year old girl and TWO 3 year old boys to not TOUCH, CATCH or STEP ON the butterflies while we were in the garden!  Before you enter the auditorium full of live butterflies you can see all the chrysalis formations.  8.21.14

I text Jaafe a picture of the largest moths they had there and he thought they were bats.  They were really big I guess.  ;)

This is Steel listening to the "guide" and waiting right next to the door to the garden to be the FIRST one in!!

They had tons of other creatures to look at too.  Bee hive, ant farm, scorpions with a black light, tarantulas, fish.  There are plans for an aquarium too.  Guess we will be making the trek up to Scottsdale a little more often. ;)