Giving Thanks...

As I was "giving hug" to Caroline an hour after we put her to bed (a tactic of hers to avoid sleeping), she started talking - unprompted - about what she was thankful for this weekend:

"I thank for the softball game at night [she was talking about watching the BoSox game Friday nite on TV, see Karen's post below]. I thank Papa for showing me the circus ostrich with the bea-u-ti-ful neck [one of the animals on the carousel]. I thank Nina for the white ice cream and ALL the CHOCOLATE sprinkles... I thank Dada for riding the Piggie [yet another carousel animal]."

After that, I put her back in bed...then she told me:

"The ponies eat APPLES...the giraffes eat oranges," as she nodded her head in the affirmative, "and ostriches eat PANCAKES," again nodding her head 'yes'.

And, if you can believe it, while looking for the name of the park we went to, I found this on Youtube - you really can find just about anything in the internet these days! This is the carousel with the ponies, piggies, ostriches and the rest of the circus animals:

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A great article in the telegram today...

Sunday Best

Couple of pics right before we head back to the homestead...

Butterflies

We found a really great link about cheap/free things to do in the Worcester area (who knew that The American Sanitary Plumbing Museum was in our backyard?!?!) and seeing that we really didn't have anything going on this weekend - we decided to go on an adventure.

We went to the Butterfly Place in Westford, MA. It was, by far, one of the coolest daytrips that we've been on. First of all - it's a huge glass greenhouse that's eighty degrees inside. BONUS!!! There was a fish pond in there, a butterfly museum, quails running around and butterflies everywhere. Butterflies like I have never seen before - green, blue, purple. And they were huge. They would fly right up to you and even land on you if you sat quietly. We got tickets for free admission on another day as well because they said that the butterflies weren't flying around like they normally do because it's so cold - but even so - this place was great. Truly amazing.

Here are some shots we got today:

After the Butterfly Place, we went up to visit Caroline's Grammy and Grampy. She had fun - and this was the scene on the way home:

And then after dinner, Caroline thoroughly enjoyed one of Uncle Carl's Gingersnaps :

A great day was had by all!