A fun weekend at Niagara Falls

We spent another great weekend in Niagara Falls. Logan was super excited about going to Clifton Hill and getting more flyers!

 

Stopping off at the arcade is starting to become a bit of a tradition for us.

 

Sitting on a motorcycle!

Logan wasn't sure about this guy but sat beside him long enough for a picture!

Our crazy kids 

 Logan with the back scratcher!

After getting a good picture of Kali and Lola we hear Logan down the hall singing....Logan is sexy and he knows it! This video already has 54 views (?!?) -another YouTube superstar in the family?! LOL

And we went to Bird Kingdom again! The last time we were here was back in April -Kali was almost four months old but really didn't have a clue where she was. This trip at almost 11 months, she loved it! She was pointing at things, screaming, saying "wow" and clapping her hands. :D

Logan was being a really sweet big brother and pointing things out to Kali

Feeding the birds

Look at Kali's face -she thought this was awesome!

Logan finding the bird on his treasure hunt sheet!

Digging for treasure!

Rescuing Daddy!

Logan AND Kali like to climb all over Daddy and be silly

In the car and ready to check out the Festival of Lights!

Not sure how these random dinosaurs on Dufferin Island fit into the whole Christmas theme...

Modified Gravity Painting

When looking for some rocks we picked up on our walk, we came across some scraps of drywall from Grandpa in the garage. We laid out some cardboard and set the pieces on some wood. I had envisioned a slight modification to our "tall painting" art project but Logan had different ideas.

He used q-tips to help speed up the process

I gave Logan a sponge brush, a popsicle stick and a bunch of q-tips to work with

Kalia watched Logan's every move

We used finger paints and pink and yellow glitter glue/paint

Man, this looks pretty awesome. Park of me wanted to make it "off limits" and let it just drip down. But art with a preschooler isn't always about the finished product. And it was his art not mine, so I let him explore and do what he wanted.

Logan pushing the paint down

Three paintings on drywall scraps.

He squished this one on a paper to make a print...A popsicle stick on it's side scraped this one

This one is my favorite

Close up of the texture --we used finger paints and sparkle glue.

Two pictures on finger paint paper.

We'll definitely being doing more "gravity painting"! Logan enjoyed it and Kali and I liked watching the process. I think working with different painting tools (q-tips, popsicle stick, sponge brush) and a surface that wasn't paper was interesting for Logan...I'll keep this in mind for our next art project