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Ezri claims this sugary rainbow is unicorn poop that she collected over at Alice’s house.

Ivan stamps his foot and says, “Ezri, that is just cookie!”
Ezri is sticking to the unicorn poop story.

Uno Game – victory is important to both kids

We stayed within walking distance from this store which had Pokemon cards for the kids to browse.

Eric bought the kids nose flutes at the Inland Octopus toy store.

In front of the rental house on leaving day

We toured the science building and the library on campus. Ezri loved the sparkly crystals the Geology department owns and displays in the science building.

Playground time

Splash pad

Round two of gelato at The Patisserie. Ezri’s aunt and uncle signed their wedding papers in this sweets and coffee shop five years ago which was worth celebrating with gelato. And then we needed to go back because the gelato was delicious.

On the plane to Bozeman

Wonder Woman movie viewing with Amanda and Grandpa Mark. We had the whole theater to ourselves. It was great to share the Amazonian heroics.

Bozeman Beach

Ezri made a sand bunny with duck feather ears.

The first rule of vacation was No trips to the E.R. Rule 2 was Have fun. Somewhere much farther down the list we had to add No tossing sand in the air.

At the grandparents’ house

Morning work on the deck. Mark is browsing social media. Ezri is drawing cute versions of farm animals.

Stegosaur hat from Amanda’s youth rides again.

Love this photo of the happiness.

Chico Resort & Hot Springs
Eight is old enough for a trail ride with great views of the mountains. Ezri pointed this out last year when she was a mere 7 and was so thrilled we returned this year so she could ride.
Ezri rode Mike and Amanda rode Rowdy. If you were worried, Rowdy hasn’t been rowdy in years and years.

Clark’s Fork restaurant has bacon, pancakes, and sunflowers.

The kids enjoyed the annual sweet pea festival parade which featured a children’s hockey team handing out popsicles on rollerblade skates and a cadre of therapy ponies and miniature horses. The street cleaner truck spraying water as the grand finale was a fan favorite. Also, it cleaned up some horse poop.

Ezri and Ivan found a tomato shaped like butt in Aunt Pat’s greenhouse.

Ezri had a lot of fun at the Harry Potter fest in Naperville today.

Potions Class

Book Sculpture

Hug a blobfish!

Just like Sophie in BFG

Looking out the window at the moon

Naper Library hosted an after hours party for members for their Book & Cookie club.
Ezri brought her friend Alice and there was trivia, giant board games, pizza, scavenger hunt, stories and more.
She also stayed up until nearly midnight.

Storytime

Happy Salmon Game for collecting coins to be turned in for COOKIES!

Clapping games in the dark, closed library

This seems like a good post to add these two photos of an earlier Book and Cookie meeting on the book Sidekicks by Dan Santat.

She made a pom pom creature for the librarian who leads the club.

Here she is posing with the book discussion title of the month.