What a Day!

Earlier this week, Kaden got a splinter under his fingernail. We tried to remove it, with no success. I was going to let it try and work its way out, but two days later, he started complaining about it. That's when I decided I needed to do something and get it out. Called the Dr and got an appointment for the next day. Kaden was very brave and did so well while the corpsmen were working on his finger. Nikolas was so supportive of him telling him he was going to be ok and that he was doing a great job. The corpsmen were one try away from numbing, soaking, and pulling back the nail a little to get it removed. Thank God that didn't have to happen. Kaden is now happy to tell everyone that his owie is now gone.

Since Kaden did so well at the Dr, and Nikolas was supportive, we decided to buy them a new toy. They chose GI Joe men on motorcycles. We thought after all of this, we would just come home, go on a family bike ride and then go to bed. Little did we know that Nikolas would ask us to take his training wheels off his bike! He put his knee pads on, took training wheels off, and off Nikolas went. No falling, just riding! We are all so proud of him, and he is excited. We went on a bike ride and he rode his for at least a mile with no training wheels. He still struggles to start and stop but is getting better with each try.

My boys continue to grow up right before my eyes. Some I'm ready for, and others I'm not. I absolutely love it most when they are happy and proud of themselves for what they have accomplished.

Hope everyone is doing great. Love to you all! Tomorrow is FRIDAY!

Olympic Game Farm/Gray Marsh Farm

The boys and I got lucky and Duane was able to take Friday off of work so we could go have some fun family time since he had to work the weekend.

I had heard about a field where you can pick berries all during the summer. I looked it up and sure enough, there was. June is the month for strawberries, and the boys LOVE strawberries. Since we were going to be a couple hours away from home, we decided to make a day of it and try out the Olympic Game Farm. The boys had been asking to go to the zoo, so we figured this would be a nice fix for now...not knowing what to expect.

Since animals prefer to be cool, we decided to go see them first and hope that they would be out and about. Come to find out, they are always out and about as their living areas are what we drive through. We were going slow enough that we were able to unbuckle the boys and let them stand to look. We were SO shocked with how cool this drive-through animal park was. The boys got to feed the animals bread, they got two bears to wave at them, and they had a blast making the peacocks squeak.

Nikolas very happy he gets to be out of his car seat and ready to fee the animals

Kaden still is in shock that the car is moving and he doesn't have to be buckled :)

Nikolas throwing some bread for the zebras

Kaden loved to throw the bread out to the peacocks

Every time he got food and you said bye, he would wave. It was so cool. Sadly, I missed the other one waving :(

Duane had to take this picture through the mirror. It's the only way we could see their faces while looking at the animals.

Being silly!

I was pretty proud of my freshly picked strawberries

Loving that he gets to eat them while picking

Can you tell he is having fun?? haha!

 

Just wanted to share how beautiful these Peacocks are when their feathers are all fanned out.

 

The Cruz family had such an amazing time on our new adventures that will become a must time and time again. We are planning on going berry picking again when the older kiddos get here and maybe back to the Olympic Game Farm as well...or the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle since we have never been there either. Now that both boys are getting older, they are easier to take places and go site seeing. They enjoy it and make it so much fun and memorable.