Crumpled Home

We’re back from our awesome holiday and the good news is: no monkey bites or life-threatening illnesses!

While we’re getting those pictures sorted out, here’s everything else we got up to during April: our neighbours visited with their new baby, we played real video games for the first time, we took some friends ice skating, we dyed some eggs for Easter and we also noticed that a movie character has been taking fashion tips from… Dad?

Our neighbour's mummy bobtail lizard had babies and they were super cute!

RJ’s birthday was loads of fun. After school, we gathered up most of his classmates and walked them to the park near our house, where we enjoyed fruit, snacks and cupcakes! We had a nice dinner and more cake that night with Grammy and Poppa. The next day, RJ invited two of his friends to go see a movie with us in the city. Happy birthday RJ!

RJ's favorite present was this jaw from a 10ft lemon shark.

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We added a pond to our backyard. Everyone helped out!

You must first recruit your team and get your equipment together.

Cody, Wyoming is home to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, a marvelous set of museums which we spent a while exploring. Out front, a blacksmith worked a historically accurate forge and anvil making nails by hand (a job that I do not envy), while someone cooked up some buffalo stew over a campfire. The smells were delicious!

We also had a great time watching the Fourth of July Parade, complete with cowboys, horses, skiiers, cowboys, hamburgers, horses, cowgirls, poodles, horses, Shriners in little zoomy cars, cowboys, marching bands and horses!

We visited the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. It houses several museums in the same building.

Mum went away last weekend, so it was up to Dad to keep things under control. On Friday night we went to the beach for a quick play, then picked up fish & chips for dinner.

Dad: This single-parent thing is a piece of cake!

LR was desperate to get up onto the monkeybars on her own.

... And after many attempts she made it!

We don't get a lot of snow around here. We just make do with what we've got.

RJ was not impressed when he realised his toy was broken.

RJ cheered up again pretty quickly, in time to play airplanes on the swing.