Yesterday was a beautiful day and we decided to take advantage of it by visiting Milwaukee County Zoo again. Below is a video of me with Brinley and Cohen on the Sky Safari ride. Click here for photos.
This the latest photo I have of my kids. We were at Lincoln Park Zoo last weekend. They all look so grown up!
It doesn’t seem like it could be true, but it is: this past Saturday, Tristan turned 9. We had his birthday party at his Uncle Bryan’s that night. Michele and my mother-in-law made the food that Tristan picked out, including a nice Black Forest chocolate/cherry cake with cherry cordial candies on top.
He has grown so much, as evidenced by the photos I’ve included in this post.
He was tremendously excited about his presents and waited very patiently, for several hours until after everyone had finished eating supper, to open them. Several of the presents were Lego sets and he didn’t get a chance to open and put any of them together before bedtime Saturday night. He spent a restless night and finally woke us up around 6:30a Sunday to ask if he please, pretty please be
allowed to open one of his Lego sets?! He spent all day that day putting together some of his presents and playing with them.
With this event comes the realization that Keegan, whose birthday is in January, will turn 18 (!) and then, Michele and I will celebrate 10 years of marriage at the end of next month. Again, how time flies. It hardly seems possible.
Below is a video I just uploaded to YouTube that was taken a few years ago. I attempted to really scare the little kids and the effort backfired. (The back story is that I did this once before, when Keegan was little, and practically scared him out of ten year’s growth.)
Last week I spent vacation time with Cohen, Tristan, and my brother, Dan, in a remote cabin near Ely, Minnesota. We had a good time even though the weather was cold with snowfall some of the time. Check out the trip photos on my photos page.