Others (me!) might be a flutter awaiting Oprah’s interview today with Meghan and Harry, but we couldn’t wait for our lunchtime butterfly tour in Costa Rica. Look at this rapt crowd! We watched a butterfly fly for the first time, we learned lots of fun facts, and we met Timmy the roach who eats dirt and poops vitamins for butterflies:)

Holmes loves this drawer of kitchen utensils, he spends a lot of time examining each item. Today he picked up the spider ladle and said, “Pasta!…Daddy.” (Frank uses it to ladle out pasta from the water.) It is always impressive and humbling to learn what these kids notice.

Meryl and Tito are back at it in the kitchen. Today’s recipe was for a Pot O’ Gold milkshake made with ice cream and Lucky Charms cereal (surprisingly gluten free!). Happy March!

Xanna and Meryl have discovered memory games on Caribu…gray matter stimulation for all!

We’ve been listening to new age spa music all weekend (AKA dog relaxing music). I must admit that it is relaxing! Meryl got a massage to cap the weekend.

Dinner time energy in, over abundant energy out.

Dramamine works for this kid! Thanks for the tip, Jingmun! We all have clean clothes…except our dryer has quit on us for some reason. So, no laundry to do! And, argh, no laundry.

Let’s just say Meryl is all-in on French fries and iffy on pizza. She’s game to bomb down the mountain and, well…Frank saved society:) We’ve decided that we’re bored of the Magic Carpet and the single chairlift run we usually do, so next time we’re exploring the mountain for yard sales (milkshakes?) and we’ll see what happens!

Remember when he had sooo much hair?

Probably four years apart!

New beach adventure today thanks to a classmate play date! And, sun!

We traveled to Australia today and went on a scavenger hunt around Melbourne to find a kangaroo! Our friend is working on an Amazon beta program offering 1:1 travel experiences all over the world…and it’s pretty cool! We walked the streets, saw artwork, saw what life is like in Melbourne and talked with a local. Search “Amazon Explore,” and you too can travel!

We started swimming. And both kids are so, so excited and thrilled and eager for more. The WAC limits one family per outside lane with the center vacant, and with the building pretty vacant on weekday nights…it’s the family time we have come the love so much. Lessons start tomorrow, though the instructor stays masked (and dry) on deck and us parents get take the lead. Good luck to us!

Xanna sent an olive tree today to add to our budding living room garden…which got Meryl thinking about aloe and an owie, and then we started trimming our four and a half year old aloe plant (thanks, Jenna!). Meryl has stated that she’s going to become a teacher and a gardener so here we are, growing:)