Snuggles

We are a family of snugglers. Ellie loves it when Seth cooperates and wants to snuggle, sometimes he does sometimes not.

Ethan and Seth also like to be together and I thought this was such a cute picture (minus the food in Ethan's mouth)

Discovery Gateway here we come !!!

This is my first attempt to add a post, so we'll see how it goes. We were very graciously given a membership to the Discovery Gateway.... Thank you MOM !!!!! Anyhow we were so excited to use it, and did so very quickly after Christmas. The kids LOVE IT !!!!! Here are a few pictures to enjoy. Seth's favorites include the water play area, which he loves to stand on the stool so he can reach higher and access more water and stuff (he also gets more wet...) He also loves the balls. He's happy if he has a ball in each hand. 

Ethan loves to try a little of everything everytime we go. Sometimes he will spend quite a while in one spot, but then other times he bounces around quickly everywhere. I'm never sure which day it's going to be. He loves to get on and off the very high horse (and make me nervous, because he likes to go off the wrong side!). He also likes to make buildings and then watch them crash all over on the earthquake table. We also had a hard time trying to pull him out of the helicopter outside, even thought it was pretty cold, and we had been out there FOREVER...

They decided to do a play for me. They had sooo much fun using the different costumes and the screen sets, and the stage lights, yet it was a very strange play, they announced that it was Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but the title and the curly wig were about all that related to the story I grew up with....but they had fun just being themselves... and acting silly. 

Ellie and Livy (her best friend) who we brought with us this time, they were being postal workers delivering letters all over. This is one of Ellie's favorite things to do. When we don't bring a friend with us Ellie usually makes a new friend quickly and then they go all over doing things together. 

This is seth enjoying one section of the water area. He is usually drenched by the time we leave. He loves to put the balls into one part of the pipe, then grab it after it flows down a little and put it back in.

Livy loves to play with Seth and make him laugh, which he seems to enjoy playing with her just as much. Right now he's having fun trying to run to the very edge  with the doll stroller and tempt mom to catch him, then run away, yet getting very close to the edge most times....  This is in the construction area, which is another of Ellie's favorite places to play. Ethan loves to use the pretend cranes to lift the big building blocks up where Ellie can build the houses with them.