Flat Stanley

In April, Cassie got a big envelope in the mail from her cousin Lucy, who lives in Pennsylvania.  Flat Stanley was inside! (instead of explaining, how about I give you the link to the Wikipedia article?)  We were excited to take him with us on all our adventures and take pictures with him.  I really am grateful that Lucy sent him to us, because it really motivated us to do fun things and take pictures along the way!

He came with us to the Tulip Festival at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens.  (Grandma K gave us a pass to Thanksgiving Point for Christmas and we love it.)

He came furniture shopping with us at Ikea...we finally bought bar stools!  It has changed our life. ;)

Can you find him on the table?  I did a pre-school co-op with other moms in the neighborhood last year.  It was really a good experience since we were able to trade off every 5 weeks- it gave us plenty of time to come up with fun ideas, and I don't think any of us got burnt out.  Okay, maybe I got a little burnt out at the end since I was in my first trimester with baby #3.

Driving cars at the mall...sshhhh!  Don't tell my kids that you can put quarters into these things to make them actually move!  They get so excited when we go to the mall- they love playing on the cars, no quarters necessary.

Riding ponies at the Thanksgiving Point Farm.  I love this picture of Mr. B!

That cow is eyeing me suspiciously...

Unfortunately, since Stanley is made of cardstock, he got ripped accidentally and had to have surgery...

which involved a piece of packing tape.

At the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point...are you noticing a pattern here?

Don't worry, Stanley saved them by giving the shark a paper cut.