Friday

/Hunter moved in to his PATH home on Wednesday.  Today we picked him up after lunch to spend some time with him.  We visited our 5th playground of the Summer (way behind schedule to hit our record of 26), went to the Gateway to Science Center, had a snack at McDonald's, then drove North of River Road to check out the flooding.  We continued North once we got to Hwy 1804 (Don and I are known for doing crazy stuff like that). We drove far enough North that we ended up at Double Ditch Indian Village.  In another moment of reckless abandonment, we turned in to the Double Ditch lookout to check it out.  None of us have been there before.  The kids had a blast exploring the area....at least until Eric tripped in a hole and suffered some road rash along his shin.
Speaking of Eric....he has been having a very hard time with all of the change in our home this past month.  He has not been sleeping well-worries so much, especially at bedtime.  We were hoping with some of the craziness settling down that he would settle down.....no luck with that yet.  So, last night I gave him melatonin.  He was sound asleep within 30 minutes of taking it.  Tonight.....same thing.  Two nights in  a row!  Sleeping by 9:15! 
I did not bring my camera with today, but did take some pics on the phone....maybe I will post some.  Or....maybe we will just have to go back to Double Ditch.

Cub Scout Day Camp

Day Camp was this week.  We were not able to attend the last 2 Summers, so we, errrr, I mean the boys were excited to see what it was all about.  The first day was no fun.  It started raining just minutes into the start of camp.  The rain was soon followed by thunder and lightening, decreased temps, and wind.  After an hour, I took the 4 Bear Scouts that I brought  back to our house, and we did our own day camp.  Yesterday was beautiful.  The sun was shining, and there was enough wind to keep the mosquitos off, but not so much that we were miserable.  Eric and Jonathan both enjoyed archery and BB gun shooting the most, with fishing coming in a close second.  Megan and I were there for the last half of the camp session.  We left before the campfire program-we were tired and anxious to get home.

pictures

There was apparently an update to blogger....I am noticing that the pictures look a little blurry in the posts.  If you click on them to enlarge them, they look better. 

Girl

Boys

Gymnastics

Megan started gymnastics on Friday.  She was one very excited little girl.  She will go on Friday mornings through July. 

Roosevelt Zoo

The Bismarck Zoo is currently closed due to the flood.  Since we were in Minot Memorial Day weekend, we took advantage of the Roosevelt Zoo.  I didn't know how it would work taking 4 active kids to the zoo with my walking boot and limited mobility, but I thought it was worth a try.  Glad we went when we did, as later in the afternoon the Roosevelt Zoo started feeling some of the pain of the flooding.  After the zoo, we found our favorite playground at Oak Park, and officially kicked off our Playgroundpalooza Adventure of 2011.  The record to beat is 26 playgrounds.  I believe we started our Playground Adventure last Summer at Oak Park as well.