Hallowe'en at Greenfield Village

We LOVE Halloween, and we especially LOVE Hallowe'en at Greenfield Village.  Here are some of our favorite moments!

Mommy with Uncle Joe

Mommy with Miss Melissa

First Day of School and First Day of Ballet Class

We are both excited for the first day of school and our first ballet classes this fall!

 Here we are at our first day of ballet!

 We are so excited that Evie might jump right off the porch!

 Look at my BIG smile!

 Evie is dancing she is so excited!

 Evie in her preschool class with UpandDown Dog (her comfort toy)

Here I am by the books at Kindergarten!!!

African Safari and Wildlife Park

Yesterday, we went to the African Safari and Wildlife Park in Ohio.  Yes!  Believe it or not, less than 2 hours from home is AFRICA.  Here are some of the great times had by all!

Eva and Zoe riding a camel!  We were both excited, especially Eva!

Mommy & Eva with the "African" safari in the background.

Check out that giraffe's tongue.  We are lucky to have a hole in the top of our car!  What an experience!

Miss Melissa feeding a Scottish Highlander Cow.  He was so sweet, like feeding a baby!

Look at the Longhorn!  He was really amazing!

He was also hungry, and his horn hit Mommy's car.  But it was still pretty cool.  That's Miss Melissa petting him.

Mommy is feeding a Water Buffalo a carrot.  Later a Buffalo (possibly this same one) drooled all over Miss Melissa.  Very dirty animals...not as gentle as the rest.

Very cool picture of me, Zoe, in the car's rear view mirror.  I am feeding a carrot to a sweet deer.  The deer were a bit skiddish, but who could blame them?  After all, there were cars, trucks, vans, and other vehicles driving right past them.

Here I am with a few deer.  Pretty darn happy, too!

Fishing with Papa Tom and Grammy

Bat Zone!

We went to the Bat Zone on the campus of Cranbrook Institute of Science earlier this month.  Here are a couple pictures!

Bats might be scary, but they are very gentle.  We loves seeing their cute faces!

Here we are with a sugar glider.  It lives with a three-toed sloth at the Bat Zone!  Eva loved this little criter!

July with the Martin girls

 

Our July was really fun, and Mommy took a ridiculous amount of pictures.  The one above is from PLAY at Henry Ford Museum.  It's so much fun!  Here are a few more of PLAY:

We also went to the Mattaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor on the campus of the University of Michigan.  Here are some of Mommy's favorites:

Then we took a trip to the Cranbrook Science Museum.  Eva and I had a really good time in the gift shop.

June with the Martin girls

Here are some of the activities that we've been doing in the last month.

Here I am at my dance recital.  I absolutely loved dancing this year.  This was my second recital, and my last with this dance company.  I am now taking ballet at another place.  They have ballet bars and walls of mirrors!

Eva is posing in the bee exhibit at the Toledo Zoo.  The kids area there is really awesome!  We went to the zoo with Mommy, Daddy, and Uncle Joe.  Uncle Joe was working in Ohio in May and part of June.

Here I am as a spider.  They had real spiders there...they were super cool!  I loved climbing this wall.

This is me and my teacher, Miss Dee, at PreSchool graduation.  I am excited to start Kindergarten in the fall!

Happy Birthday Eva!

Eva turned 3 on Wednesday.  Last Saturday we spent the day celebrating.  First we had a wonderful Railroaders Breakfast at Greenfield Village.  Then we took a special train ride on Thomas the Tank Engine at the Village.  Eva was thrilled, even though it was cold and rainy.

You can see the track from this photo...Mommy just loves this picture of Eva.

Here I am smiling big next to Mommy and Zoe.  A little rain didn't make us sad!

After a great day at the Village, we came home and relaxed a bit.  Then later our family and friends came over for the next part of the Thomas Birthday Bash!  Here is Eva in her Birthday party hat!

Smiles don't come much bigger, do they?

It all ended with a special Thomas cake made and decorated by Mommy.  It was cool looking and yummy too!

Zoe at 5 and Eva at 3