Thursday, October 29, 2009

Last Tidbits of a Colorado Summer

A definite "scrapbook post" this time (i.e., just putting the pictures on the page with captions). Of the last bits of our fabulous Colorado summer vacation.

Grace experienced her first salon visit with Mommy and Aunt Gill, complete with pedicure and manicure. And out of a wall of nail polish colors, she chose a bright pink. That's our girl.
Aunt Gill shows Grace how to keep her fingers separated so that the paint doesn't smear.

Grammy Sharon gave the twins their first taste of jello with cherries inside.



After picking not-so-ripe raspberries, we had a picnic lunch at the berry farm, where this large hog hangs out and eats scraps. Quite harmless, though the twins weren't too fond of it.


After berry picking, we stopped at an outdoor shopping center and ran through this sprinkler. The game: throw plastic beads under the middle of the umbrellas and get Chance to retrieve them. Grace wasn't sure about doing it, so before we left, Mommy grabbed her and we all ran through. Grammy and the twins hangin' out on the side steps, watching a couple of other kids.

Trip to the Denver Museum where the children's portion was temporarily CLOSED (arrgh!). But the twins enjoyed it anyway, esp. the space section, where they watched a demonstration about Triton, one of the moons of Neptune (the coldest in the solar system). The lady showed how cold the moon was by bouncing a rubber ball on the ground, then placing it in liquid ice, then taking it out and throwing it on the ground where it broke into pieces. Even in October, the twins were still retelling the story of what happened to that rubber ball!

We watched lots of rabbits hop around Grammy's yard during our visit.

And Mommy followed the twins, who were holding hands (unprompted, btw!) as they walked to the green sand that Grammy bought them. Chance thought Uncle Sam's childhood collection of vehicles was the grooviest, so the sand was well-used for those.

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