Lunch Time Lovin' and Dinner Time Shenanigans

I barely picked up my camera over the month of April.  I don't feel like I engaged in a lot of activity with the girls, but what I did capture was some great moments at home during a typical lunch and dinner together.  

When its just the girls and I, I ususally make them lunch while they sit with me at the kitchen bench/island/bar, whatever you call it.  I pull items out the the cupboards and the fridge and we put something together.  

we've been on a crackers and cheese or goat cheese kick lately!  

On this particular day, my girls were feeling quite lovey-dovey. And I really am lucky because it doesn't seem like my girls fight that much or that often, and lovey-dovey days have moments that are just awesome to be a part of.  

It was the girls that said to me, "Hey mom, get your camera and take pictures of us!"  And when your kids demand that you "grab your camera", I'm gonna do it - stat!

They totally hammed it up for the camera.

All those gorgeous kisses and love!

So hard not to want to remember this forever.

It was a couple nights later, that I brought my camera out to capture the shinnanigans that they get up to together during dinner.

It looks like they are eating breakfast with Kamille in her robe and Karis in her pyjamas, but I had given them a pre-dinner bath and we were eating soup for dinner that night.

I just stood aside and captured their conversation, of which I cannot recall the content today, but it was just them, having a chat.

Love this laugh!

And there it is again.

That Karis girl sure is silly, isn't she Kam?

"yep!"

Just the every day kind of things on this post.
Yet so valuable to remember how it was years from now.

Dinosaur Train!

Good grief!  This post in ages in the making.  

Back in February when my mom was her to visit, Kamille as right at the end of her Dinosaur unit in school and she was all about dinosaurs and such.  Coincidentally, it was at that time that a local vendor announced that they will be hosting the Dinosaur Train event. 

Dinosaur Train is a cool and educational kids cartoon that my girls watch on Netflix.  They have learned from it, I am sure.  While Kamille did her dinosaur unit at school she was more and more relating to the characters and dialogue of the show because she now understood what herbivore, omnivore and carnivore all meant and stuff like that.  

So when my mom saw that Dinosaur Train was coming to town, she insisted that I take my enthusiastic mini palaeontologists!  

Mom wasn't going to be in town when the event happened over Spring Break, but she did leave us some money to purchase our tickets!  Thanks Mom!

We arrived on time and ready to board the Dinosaur Train.  The train was filled with background dialogue of the Dinosaur train characters.  We waited to see where the train would take us!!!  Oh the anticipation!

or not! ; ) 

The scenes of the less than 10 minute ride were very familiar to the girls, but it was a train ride nonetheless and something to enjoy.  

Upon arriving to the station, we were handed a book that outlined our challenges at our destination.  We each chose two colouring crayons and we followed the large coloured dinosaur tracks to the place where the dinosaurs roamed and flew above us!

We started here...

documenting their findings by drawing what they found in their dig. 

Accompanying each of the larger-than-our-life dinosaurs were easy to read information cards.  

Ha!  This was funny!  ; )  

Some man offered to take our photo at the crotch of the conductor!???  ; ) Nice.

This is what he really looked like!

The Petroglyph Cave was the place that we stayed the longest.

Kamille had learned to draw a Stegosaurus at school and this was the perfect spot to show off her talent!

look at that super sweet sun that she drew!  love it!  

And holy dinosaur!!  What it ever a great Stegosaurus!

We realized that things were moving along as we spent lots of time drawing.  We still had to find Buddy!  He had disappeared on us by this point.  

While we waited for him to surface again, we moved onto another activity.  

The Main Event.......

Both girls were so excited to meet Buddy!  Especially Karis!  That is, until we actually did get to meet him and then Karis was a bit fearful.

this picture makes me laugh

This picture makes me laugh.  

Eventually we said goodbye and moved on...

We got some popcorn and sat down to watch a large screen showing an episode of Dinosaur Train.  

Soon after it was time to board our train again....

Tattooed up and ready to go!

Oh and they are now official member of the Nature Trackers Club.