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Cameron Park Zoo

So Friday Melissa and I decided to take the kids to the zoo up in Waco. I must still think like a teacher because every school group in Central Texas was there as well. We had a great time after an interesting start. Creighton decided to unload himself in the car on the way there and we discovered it when I pulled him out of the carseat dripping. After a quick bath in the nearest sink and a change of clothes he was right as rain and we were off to see the animals.

The zoo is great. For not a lot of walking -- maybe a mile and a half-- you can see all the animals. The weather was great too so the animals were active. The highlight was probably the big bear that swam over and stood up by the glass so we could pose for pictures.

blubonnets 2 info

i knew i should have posted this but forgot. the field of blubonnets finally bloomed out and thus the second round of pics. for those of you local, it is at the soldier hospitality house on chapparel *sp* road south of town. i got the tip from our brigade commander's wife and googled for the address and directions. easy peasy.

Bluebonnets take 2

Yay for Jesus

Grace drinking "tea" aka OJ at brunch

All of us at Club Hood after brunch before egg hunt #5

Eating Brunch

Grace with Mrs. Peter Cottontail

Creighton enjoying a toy at brunch

All three of us at the brunch. LTG Lynch, III Corps had a reserved table behind us but we never saw him.

Kidlets with an awesome bunny.

Grace at egg hunt #3

Creighton's opinion of egg hunts.

A quick run down of our Easter celebrations: Wednesday Grace had an egg hunt at school. Saturday morning we went to the Harker Heights egg hunt, thousands of eggs gone in 30 seconds. Then at 2 pm we went to Melissa's neighborhood egg hunt. Sunday morning we hunted eggs from the Easter bunny. Later we met Melissa and Alexis for brunch where there was another hunt. We ended up at Alpha Company's potluck where we were one of 3 families and you guessed it, another hunt! 6 hunts and two dinners -- awesome. The best part of it all, this morning when Grace crawled into bed with me this morning we talked about the resurrection and Grace quipped, "Yay for Jesus!"

Randomness

Just a few random pictures: Grace at the park and Grace feeding Alexis a snow cone. The crib pictures are Creighton at this fire drill this week at MCCW. It is him and his birthday buddy from the unit in an evacuation crib at commanche chapel.

Wiggle Worm

Monkey Grace

Amazing Feats

Both kiddos have amazing physical feats to display. Creighton gets up on his arms and knees and sticks his heiney in the air. He is strong enough to crawl if he could get himself coordinated. And Grace can do the monkey bars all by herself!

Talking to Daddy

Prune Man

Creighton loves his prunes which is now necessary because while he loves his solids, they don't exactly love him.

Injecting the venom

Creighton learned a new sound this week. It's either a dinosaur sound or as Melissa calls it, he's "injecting the venom*". Whatever it is it's cute.

*inject the venom is the motto for 3rd brigade. the saying was coined by our commander.

Military Child Festival

April is the month of the military child. Fort Hood puts on a festival for the kids with pony rides, petting zoo, food, crafts, prizes and entertainment all for my favorite price FREE! We were out at Hood stadium for 3 hours enjoying all the sights and staggered home with a bag full of goodies.