Spring Break Fun

Earlier this month we had the opportunity, again, to share some love and lunch with the children who live in the garbage dump. 

If there is a tree, they will climb it!

This little guy just wanted love and attention from anyone who would give it to him. Such a cutie!

  
A visiting opera company performed the opera Rigoletto. Mitchell and I love seeing operas and we have been waiting for years to introduce our kids to this type of performance! Audrey came along this time and she totally loved it! She sat on the edge of her seat watching everything and just loving the orchestra, singers, staging, costumes, everything. Very fun for all of us!

For more of an all audiences performance we took the whole crew to the visiting Russian circus on ice. Yes, ON ICE! In Nicaragua!! Layne was probably the most enchanted at the circus. He waved at the performers and clapped the whole time. He was adorable.

Some friends of ours invited us over for a play date after school last week. They go to a different school than my kids and had come home from school with a huge bag of plastic Easter eggs. The kids wanted to have an egg hunt so Lisa and I filled as many eggs as we could with the coins we had in our purses. The rest of the eggs were empty and we hid a ton of eggs all around. The kids loved the fun of searching and finding eggs. No candy required. Haha!

They also have a few pet parrots. This one perched on Redick's head and we all giggled.

If there is a basketball standard, they will climb it! 

Even Layne can scale the pole! 

Our housekeeper's son's birthday was on Saturday. We all enjoyed a fun afternoon at Magic Park celebrating. There are bumper boats, a train ride, go karts, a giant pillow you can jump into from a tall platform, laser tag, bounce house, remote control cars, a zip line, and more. Everyone definitely had a great time!

Audrey has been diligently practiced cooking this year and is transitioning to be able to read and follow recipes! She is thrilled to be able to cook more! Especially when it's cookies!

Can you tell my kids are half monkey!!? I found them all in this tree one afternoon when I picked them up from school. I love that their school encourages them to try new things and allows them to climb trees if they feel confident.

We are making the most of our spring break this week. Tuesday we visited the zoo. It's been a while since we explored the zoo. There were several enclosures with different varieties of toucans. Most of the cages had multiple birds but one cage just had one. Layne pointed to it and said "Mom! Look! A one-can!" Haha! Our little friend Amelia joined us for the morning and she was a lot of fun!

The One-Can

These parrots talked up a storm to us! Every time we started to walk away they would call out "Hola!" "Buenas Tardes" They knew how to put on a show!

These 2 have been little buddies since we moved here. Amelia was actually born the same day as Layne so they are like little twinners.

On Wednesday I put my cat herding skills to the test and invited 4 extra kids over to dye Easter eggs and have a play date. They made chocolate pudding "dirt" cups, dyed eggs, played with MagnaTiles and made a whole LOT of noise! It was great fun!