Kodak Moments

I've been struggling a lot lately with some challenges in my life. The youngest two members of my family have seemed to take this as a personal challenge to completely destroy my sanity by putting more effort into doing the usual things a 3 year old and 18 month old do i.e. things involving rolls of toilet paper, chocolate milk powder, water, markers, and so forth :) It is nice when I come across pictures like these, and I'm reminded of the reasons why I love this thing called motherhood!

My children always look most angelic when they are sleeping!

We planted beans in preschool a few weeks ago. Here is Owen, reading to his beloved bean plant so it will grow bigger.

So, despite their best efforts, I'm going to see this all through - the move, the sadness at leaving friends, and everything else going on at the moment. Besides, I'm determined to wear them down - see, its already working!

Sharjah Sights

April 2: We decided to spend another Saturday exploring more of the sights in Sharjah. We stopped at the aquarium first.

"Sharks, huh? They don't look THAT scary.."

I think one of the requirements to truly enjoying fish in a tank is to make sure your hands and face are pressed right up to the glass :)

Fish tunnel!

This fish was excited to say hi to Ken and Colby.

One cool part of the exhibit at the maritime museum showed this early baby bottle - imagine using this!

Tyler tried his hand at getting a picture of us.

We found a McDonalds drive thru!!! Those are not to be found closer to where we live.

We decided to get lunch there.

We also went to the science museum, which turned out to be a lot of fun for both the children AND the adults :)

Professor Colbs

Learning how a hot air balloon works

Testing your reflex time while driving - Colby won't be driving us around anytime soon, his score was awful :)

Magic!

Pedaling to produce electricity!

We stopped at a grocery store to buy food for a picnic, and came across this donation box. I thought some of the categories were pretty fascinating.

Our picnic site had lots of REAL grass! It called for a race.

Look at all these boys! I am one lucky mom. (thank heavens for my girl! I believe we were having our 17th bathroom run when this picture was taken…)

On our way home we stopped at the Blue Souq, which was filled with all kinds of interesting shops and merchandise. I was surprised at how much the kids got into it and seemed to enjoy it. (Mostly that means they kept trying to buy every sword and dagger in sight with money they didn't have)