The Zoe and Silas Show

8/31/14: We had a fun day with friends today! First we had a lovely lunch date with Teresa, Tim, Josie & Theo. They kids were so happy to play and eat together! In the afternoon we had an impromptu play date with our landlord Mike's kids, Michael and Shawn. Lucy even got in on some of the action! In other news, one of the sunflowers that S&Z planted in June started blooming today! They are HUGE! It's amazing that we grew these from 2 single seeds!

8/30/14: We've been letting Lucy in every few days in hopes of scaring the mouse away. The kids love it! After Derek went to work it was back-to-school shopping, day 2. Who knew it would be so hard to find uniforms in their size?! Apparently we are not the only family to procrastinate this god awful task.

8/29/14: We were tortured with back-to-school shopping on Friday afternoon. The kids took a much-needed jumping break between Stride Rite and Old Navy...

8/28/14: Derek took the kids to the zoo on Thursday morning. They had so much fun feeding the budgies!

8/27/14: Zoe & Silas came to lab on Wednesday in order to help us pilot some new physiology equipment. Zoe volunteered to get wired up first. You can tell by those smiles that she was a super trooper! The equipment she is wearing allowed us to measure her heart rate, respirations, and overall activity level while she participated in a series of tests that measure a child's temperament (aka, personality). Of course they were fascinated by watching the various signals on the computer (Silas, in particular)... Silas was up next and he also did a spectacular job! They are our super star scientists in training!

8/26/14: Zoe's morning creation.

8/25/14: As I was leaving for work this morning the kids were getting ready to go "camping" in their bedroom closet. In preparation for starting K1 on 9/8, Derek took them over to the new school to ride bikes and play on the playground! Very excited (and love this picture of them!).