The Burkett Family

I can't believe its already the middle of March!! July is going to be here before we know it and we will have 3 year olds!!!

Not too much has gone on the past month. The weather has just been crazy so we have been inside mostly or going to the mall to play in the play area. The girls got some dress up clothes for Christmas and played dress up the other day. Of course, they both wanted to be Cinderella! What girl doesn't?! Sometimes I think Ashton feels left out because he doesn't have any dress up clothes. I think we are going to have to go find him a Buzz Lightyear costume so he can play with the girls.

We had a little play date with some Triplet friends of ours a few weeks ago. Even though there was an 8 month age difference, they all played so well with each other! I love that no matter who the kids play with, they always play so nice!

After dinner one night, we took a trip to the Fire house near our house to visit Melanie. She let the kids climb in the Ambulance and Firetruck and they loved it!! They got to turn the lights on and sit in the seats. They even got their own little hats. The Fire truck got a call while we were there so they were able to see the firemen get all their gear on and leave. Ashton wasn't very happy about the truck leaving. He started crying! Then as we were leaving, the Ambulance received a call that they had to go to so they got to see them leave also!! Every time we go by the firehouse, Ashton always looks for the truck and ambulance!

January has come and gone and what a crazy month it was! We were in the 70s a couple of times and then snowing a few times. On a couple of the nice days, we took the kids to the Norfolk Zoo to get out of the house and let them see some animals. We also went to the Virginia Living Museum and the Virginia Aquarium.

The first week of January we took a little trip to the Zoo. We always start at the same area and usually the Orangutan's are usually in their little inside space sleeping or eat so we never had the chance to see them outside, until this time! They were outside playing around, so we went right up to the glass so the kids had a better view of them. One of the Orangutan's came walking up the glass and Brittany got scared. She just started saying "Bye bye". That's her way of telling us that she doesn't want to look at them anymore. We noticed that she usually does it to the bigger animals. We told her that they weren't going to get near her, but she didn't care! So we moved on to the next exhibit. The baby bears were out and playing around and she didn't want to see them either. Funny part is, she wanted to see the bigger bears. Our favorite part of the Zoo is the Giraffe's. When we were there last, the Zoo had an area under construction that was for the Elephants so the kids could only see the Elephants in their cages. When we went this time, they were complete and the Elephants were in their new habitat! Next we went to Ashton's favorite part, the Squirrel Monkeys. He loves Monkeys! He even asked for a pet Monkey! Crazy kid! The Squirrel Monkey area is the last area that we visit , so after seeing them and the snakes, it was time to go home!

Our friend has a membership to the Virginia Living Museum and can get us in for free. On one of the rainy days, we went to the Museum and spent some time inside looking at the animals. There were a few exhibits of fish, turtles, snakes, lobsters, jelly fish, shrimp and other sea animals. This was the first time that I have been there myself. Since it was rainy, we didn't get the chance to go outside and enjoy the nature trails and see the animals that stay outside.

Last Friday, we decided to take the kids to the Virginia Aquarium. It was suppose to snow that evening, so we figured we would be fine if we left the Aquarium early afternoon. My sister and niece went with us since we were getting a membership that could get two other people in with us for free so we could take our parents or anyone else that wanted to go. We went through pretty much all of the exhibits and let the kids see all of the fish, but we only planned on being there for a couple of hours. We left the Aquarium around 3:00 and it started to snow and it snowed hard. After sitting in traffic for hours, we finally got home around 7:30. Talk about a nightmare!

Brittany was chasing this little fish back and forth

Since we didn't get home till 7:30, it was too late for the kids to go out and play in the snow. The next morning after they ate their breakfast, we got them dressed in their snowsuits and let them go play! They had a blast!!