I'll Be Home For Christmas (Part II)--Pictures

Riding on the antique trolley with Grandma at MOSI

Discovering electricity



What is it really like to be a hamster?



Some things never change...like this clown display.  How many of you have this SAME photo of yourself?



Avery discovered doll shoes and figured they might as well works as well as the regular sized ones.  (they didn't...)



Making candy trains

All aboard!

The hisotric Wagner Farm museum.  First the chickens...

then the eggs.  This was Taryn's favorite display, getting to collect the eggs from the nests.

Driving the produce cart to town

learning about pulley systems and lifting hay bales with Grandpa.  Thank goodness we brought the expert along!!  I think he had as much fun as we all did seeing the same equipment he grew up using.

feeding corn to the pigs

milking the cows

learning about holsteins from the best

we came home to four deer in my parent's backyard.  I loved this part about growing up in Chicago!

One of the many crazy marble runs Braden and the girls put together

Avery could most often be found with a book

and another book

and another book...

We saw this bald eagle at the Nature Center.  Very cool.

Fishing in the pond

building a tree

 There were lost of other things to see at the Nature Center.  I don't know why I didn't take pictures.  Oh well.