Holmes loves looking under utility plates…and seeing what fits through the finger hole:)

This kid loves to dance.

Holmes notoriously sleeps underneath his stuffed animals, making it hard to actually see him on the monitor…and stress out about whether he’s breathing. Fast forward a few years and I’m anticipating a Ferris Bueller style sneak-out fake-out with these same stuffed animals, good luck us:)

Sushi night! And an evening committee meeting. Thanks to a kids book on sushi, Meryl pretty much only wants to eat “dabby dots of jelly” (Ikura) on sushi nights, so we order her a full side just for her:)

Classroom experiments with colored water!

Others (me!) might be a flutter awaiting Oprah’s interview today with Meghan and Harry, but we couldn’t wait for our lunchtime butterfly tour in Costa Rica. Look at this rapt crowd! We watched a butterfly fly for the first time, we learned lots of fun facts, and we met Timmy the roach who eats dirt and poops vitamins for butterflies:)

Holmes loves this drawer of kitchen utensils, he spends a lot of time examining each item. Today he picked up the spider ladle and said, “Pasta!…Daddy.” (Frank uses it to ladle out pasta from the water.) It is always impressive and humbling to learn what these kids notice.

Meryl and Tito are back at it in the kitchen. Today’s recipe was for a Pot O’ Gold milkshake made with ice cream and Lucky Charms cereal (surprisingly gluten free!). Happy March!

Xanna and Meryl have discovered memory games on Caribu…gray matter stimulation for all!

We’ve been listening to new age spa music all weekend (AKA dog relaxing music). I must admit that it is relaxing! Meryl got a massage to cap the weekend.

Dinner time energy in, over abundant energy out.

Dramamine works for this kid! Thanks for the tip, Jingmun! We all have clean clothes…except our dryer has quit on us for some reason. So, no laundry to do! And, argh, no laundry.

Let’s just say Meryl is all-in on French fries and iffy on pizza. She’s game to bomb down the mountain and, well…Frank saved society:) We’ve decided that we’re bored of the Magic Carpet and the single chairlift run we usually do, so next time we’re exploring the mountain for yard sales (milkshakes?) and we’ll see what happens!