Feeding time at the zoo--umm I mean our house!

Thursday May 21st
Casper still doesn't eat baby food--but this was another attempt at seeing if he would be interested. . . He had a lot of help with feeding--which meant there was a bit of clean up to do!

Cea feeding Casper
No time to smile for pictures--here is another bite!
Somebody sneaking in a taste!

Yay, another bite
okay, now focus "I'm one with the spoon, I'm one with the spoon"
Chomp!
Hey, I wasn't finished, give that back!
Smack, Slurp, Smack, Slurp

Crash!
(that was Cea,
she put the lid on the jar,
then took it off,
and had this unfortunate thing happen)
Okay, no one move while mom gets the paper towel roll

This means I put the camera down, and no more pics were taken!
Oh well, we all stayed happy through it all--that's what counts

The 56 gallon fish cabinet

May 18th
Bry bought a 56 gallon fish tank for big fish. We didn't have a cabinet for it to sit on, and since we needed a cabinet that would hold around 500-600 pounds; Bryan built one.

Here is it being put in place, and the sand and water being added. We are still working on looking for some big rock, as well as picking out plants. Once the tank is completely established, we will get the fish--one of the fish Bry is considering is an electric blue Jack Dempsey--their coloring is bright blue--but a lot like an oil spill! They are quite cool!

Cea inside the cabinet (The door hasn't been put on yet.)

Looking up into the tank, while we look down at her

Dumping in the black sparkly sand

Putting together the filter

Casper is excited about what is going on.
If you look at the side of the picture, you will see the dishwasher open--that is what I got to do, while everyone else got to be excited about the fish tank and cabinet! Poor Porsche!

Go Fish. . . .

So what was the "ending" of our last fish saga?
All of them died but one. It was quite a bummer! Not to mention, the tank we had was starting to leak.
Well, I was done with Tetra's and wanted GloFish instead. Unfortunately, one of the tetra's just refused to die--what were we going to do?
The solution:
We have a 5 gallon tank for Tetra's
We have a 10 gallon tank for GloFish and a frog
and we have a 56 gallon tank, that Bry is picking the fish for.

The 10 gallon tank is my favorite, as we all had a hand in putting it together. Cea picked out the castle, Bry picked out the rock, the wall and some of the plants, and Porsche picked out the fish, some of the plants and insisted on a bubbler, and Casper likes to look and giggle.

GloFish are genetically altered to be the bright colors they are. We have 2 pink, 2 orange, and 2 yellow/green. I think these fish have ADHD! It is quite the fun tank to watch. When you feed them--they are pigs!!!! They will even eat from your fingers. The frog hides under the castle--I wouldn't doubt if he finds the fish a bit annoying. We are calling the frog, Rebel (again).

And in case you are curious--Bry is in charge of the tanks, so he does all the water changes, he and Cea do the feeding, etc. I just enjoy the results!

Here are pics of the 5 gallon and 10 gallon tanks.

Baseball Primarily Mariners Baseball

I'm sure some of you are wondering. . .
Why haven't we heard about any of the Mariners games yet? Don't they have season tickets?

Yes we do have season tickets, but we haven't quite yet gotten on the ball of taking pics of the games.
The very first game we went to the freeway was a parking lot and the parking lots were all full, so we missed half of the game, and it took some of the excitement out of the experience--it was more frustrating than fun. (plus Cea was sick, so she missed the game.)

The second game we went to, was pouring down rain--everyone was soaked!

The 3rd game we went to . . .

Anyway, we are actually having a lot of fun at the games. Mircea loves them, and Casper seems to have fun too! We like our seats and already are recognizing other season ticket holders. The next game we go to, I am hoping we will all be wearing our mariners gear, and I will attempt to take more pictures.
The following are some pictures that Cea took, and then pics Bryan took when she ate her cotton candy. It was quite cute--when Cea saw people with cotton candy, she turned to me and said, "Mom, did you bring your purse?!?" I didn't, but Bry had his wallet! grin!

Casper drives us to the game--we were early enough for free parking--way to go Casper!

The Cotton Candy

The face of Cotton Candy

Our view of the field--taken by Cea

Mommy, Daddy and 2 fans behind them

Self-Portrait

The first running through the hose this summer

We had a nice day May 17th--and well, we took advantage of it. Cea said she wanted to run through the sprinkler, and even though it was still a bit nippy out--it was also sunny; so we couldn't refuse her!
When she jumped on the trampoline she would yell, "Yeah! it is summer time!"

I can't wait to get out our blow up pool! This should be a great summer!

Trip to the zoo

Instead of music class on the 13th, we went to the zoo with our music class. It was a lot of fun. Mircea especially liked it because her babysitter Kyleah came along too!
The day was a bit cool, and didn't start raining until we were almost ready to go home. We brought our lunches for a picnic as well.
I didn't take as many pics as I would have liked, but here are at least some to give you the jist of the day.

We have just arrived.
(Casper came along too--but he is on my back, so not in any of the pictures)

Looking at porcupines

Kyleah and Cea

aren't these guys cute?!?

penguins

A whale that did some tricks. Cea thought it was quite cool!

SPLASH!

Of course, the kids enjoyed chasing each other and finding sticks the best!

(we could have done that for free at home! snicker!)

Laura, Nicole and Cea 3 friends from music class

Here they come!

The front side is so beautiful!

and well, ummmm . . . hehehehehehe!

They were enthralled

meercats

the kid play area, Sarah, Laura, Cea, Nicole and Sharon

The climb

King of the web

i didn't know snails could be so adorable!

This snail is a bit grumpy! (did i mention that she ate both hers and MY sandwiches!)

Ahhhh, the merry go round! It was free, and ride as much as you want.

So we did!

Whee!

It was actually a bit hard to capture them before they passed me by!

Cea also tended to look away or wave, so I would miss getting her in the picture.

I think Kyleah enjoyed riding as well!

Cea really liked this little zebra one!