I have always loved yoga. I don’t do it that often, but I have done it a handful of times with Lil or at least she’s seen me do it. Every once in a while she’ll say she wants to do some yoga so we’ll do a few minutes and then she loses interest. A few days ago she was hanging out with Waldo while I worked and she walked in all the sudden and informed me that she wanted to do some yoga so she put on her ballet tutu and wanted to know if she could use my yoga mat. I told her where it was and then the next thing I know I get a text from Waldo with this picture attached.
We texted back and forth about this for a minute and then he texted me ‘I can’t believe you’re missing this’. I couldn’t believe I was missing it either so I got up and walked the huge distance to the bedroom and couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
Lily told waldo to find a yoga video online for her. He found a really good one, turned it on and she totally did the whole 15 minutes and then asked for more. She ended up doing about 30 minutes of yoga and kept wanting to do more. It was one of those great moments for me. I can’t wait to do more yoga with my kiddo.
I think Olivia has an episode about talent shows so for a while Lily was all about them. It goes along perfectly with Lil’s love of dance. These days when she hears a song she likes she can’t help but dance to it, even if it’s just to wiggle her shoulders. I love this trait and hope that she keeps it.
This was at the zoo a month or two ago. The zoo has this great African musical instrument outside the lion exhibit. Lil never even noticed it till a few months ago, now it’s her favorite thing there. In these videos Waldo is laying down the mad beats with the neat instrument.
*Sorry the second video is sideways. I told youtube to turn it and it says ok, then it’s all f-you, I’m not doing S for you. Man having a three year old is playing havoc with my language.
We have spent just about every Sunday for the past two months going go a combination of the Zoo, the Aquarium, the Discovery Center (science museum) and Botanical Gardens. It has been so much fun.
The last time we went to the aquarium I noticed the Nautilus for the first time. I was mesmerized by them. I took probably over 100 pictures and a video of them. Waldo had to just about drag me away by my arm. There was just something so amazing, intriguing and down right weird about this creature. One was just stuck to the side of the tank, but the other one was putting on a show for me. Lily had no interest and neither did Waldo, but I loved it.
Here’s a pretty long (probably boring) video of the nautilus moving around.
The tank next to the Nautilus was the cuttlefish tank. This little tiny guys are so cute and amazing. They were walking on the bottom of the tank on their little flipper things and they had little ruffley tutu looking things.
Please mute your computer before you watch this cuttlefish video. Waldo and I were talking about the cute little guys before I started recording and we didn’t stop.
After Waldo pulled me away from the nautilus and cuttlefish we looked around at all of the other fish and even let Lil feed some. I don’t like bugs and slimy things so I was very happy when Waldo helped Lil touch the feeding stuff so I didn’t have to touch anything gross.
We were there first thing in the morning so these guys were very happy to be getting fed.
Lil had all of the fish cornered in one little spot because she was just tossing the food in. When some other kids showed up Waldo had Lil toss some of the little shrimpys in front of them so some of the fish would go their way.
These were the food for the puffins and lionfish. See, super gross.
We didn’t end up feeding the lionfish because the staff was doing some work on their tank. Here’s a picture of one just because they are pretty though.
We also saw lots of other creatures. Like the itty bitty teeny tiniest baby chameleons. So cute!
And Spot Prawns, but I’m pretty sure he’d tell you he was a king prawn.
And an octopus. He’s the thing in the back corner that looks like a rock. Camouflage is amazing.
See now he’s eye or some other thing is open.
Sharks and rays.
And of course* the seahorses; which have grown a ton since the aquarium opened in December.
While all of the other creatures were neat/pretty/etc my hands down favorite is the nautilus. Go find one of your own to look upon and I’m betting you will understand too.
* And of course is a total Lilyisms and I think it is so super cute.
While we were making our weekly pilgrimage to Target this weekend I picked up a pink grass skirt for Lil. I thought it would make a good addition to her dress up truck. Boy was I right. She put it on right when we got home. I pulled up some youtube videos of Hula dancers and Lil loved it (which doesn’t surprise me because I LOVE all things Hawaii) and before I knew it Lil was trying to Hula.
Sorry that this is such a low quality video. I took it with my new (wonderful) phone and didn’t realize that the video quality was almost at it’s lowest setting. I have fixed that now.
