Love and Spice

Monday, December 18, 2017

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Thanks for a friend we met at Panera (!), we had a special, private tour of the MNH at Harvard. I hadn't been in since I was a student...it certainly looks nicer these days!! We started off with a visit to one of the labs--we got to play with fossils and have a professor explain stuff to us. The boys loved it!! We definitely got special treatment, and it was awesome to learn about stuff hands-on and up-close!

Posing after 2 hours behaving...

The museum provides drawing supplies so you can draw the animals you see (taxidermy...) They were so excited to find a tiger and a bison.

Day of the Dead altar in the Peabody Museum

On the way over to the museum, Sebastian lost his top tooth (the first one to go from the top). We couldn't find it!!! It just fell out. Luckily, the tooth fairy still came...

Monday, November 13, 2017

6th Birthday and Lego Christmas City

We had the boys' 6th birthday party at Hub Parkour in Norton. I think they all had fun. They had a half hour of instruction and an hour for an obstacle course and hide and seek. Then pizza and cake. A nice group of kids--karate and family friends. No school friends because too many kids to invite! ;-)

We set up Lego Christmas city in the living room this weekend. This is step one: the train.

Chewbacca helped with the building process.

The Christmas Place 2017

Our annual pilgrimage to this special place! We've been going since Jim and I were small.

The pics are out of order, and I'm too lazy to fix it. After we got home, the boys made "sets" with their Playmobile like they saw at the store.

I think this sign is a new addition. Good idea!

We got fudge (a tradition that started with us when we were little) and also bought the boys a small Playmobile toy to add to their collection. We always got to pick an ornament, but these boys have no interest in that...they just want "guys".