A Day with Daddy

Yesterday was my day with the boys. It started off as a regular day, with us trying to decide how to spend it. We'd talked the day before about possibly doing the Butterfly Pavilion, or maybe checking out a new playground. Shawn kissed us goodbye and left. About 20 minutes later, he called saying he was headed back home. He had forgotten his badge, which he has to have to get into the secured building that he works in.

Another 20 minutes later, he showed up and rather than having one of the boys run his badge out to the car, he just got out and came back in. He decided to call in "sick" and play hooky.

So off to see the butterflies we went! We also drove a little further up to Boulder and found a veggie burger fast food joint to try. We also had a coupon in our Entertainment Book (this is such a great resource as it leads us to place we wouldn't otherwise find!) for a planetarium on CU's campus. So we got to see a movie and learn about the moon and explore the little science center there, too.

All in all, it was a great day! We didn't do a single productive thing, so I broke my rule of one fun thing and one productive thing on my Tuesdays and Thursdays off, but I think I made up for it last Sunday when I went to get the oil changed in Shawn's car as a Father's Day gift.

Here are some photos Shawn snapped of butterflies and boys... First they got to see and touch some sea stars:


Tyler was brave enough to hold a tarantula (!):

Then we made our way to the butterflies:

Here are some more of the ones we were able to capture on film... it was no small feat getting these photos ~ they are fast lil boogers!




This was my favorite:


And perhaps not as glamorous but just as cool, some moths eating dead fruit:


It's getting hot here... and at 22.5 weeks, I'm getting uncomfortable. We're going to be spending more and more time indoors if not at the pool. The boys started swim lessons this week and are loving it! The teacher is great and I think I'll sign them up for round two. I also got permission to swim laps in the empty deeper end of the pool while they are learning to swim, which will be great exercise for me. Everything else has been too painful ~ a strange thing for me as I was in pretty decent shape before I got pregnant. So I'm excited to get moving again, even if for only half an hour at a time.

Have a great week!