12 Days of Catch-Up: Arboretum with Z

One of our favorite places to go in the Chicago area is the Morton Arboretum. We are even lucky enough to have friends with a season pass to get us in free. We spent a day right before school started there with Zara and Shaan (and their mom, too.)

The bigs kids had an awesome time. (Shaan was good too - just hard to say whether or not a few-month-old baby had a good time. :)

We started the day playing the rocks while Shaan was fed.

 Then off to hunt for tadpoles....or frogs.....or whatever they were at that time.

 And then on to climbing in the treehouses....

 ....followed by rock arranging in the stream.

 Sam led the way most of the time.

 Time for some sliding fun - Sadie seemed to prefer the middle path to the actual slide.

 They were supposedly all going to smile at me.

 The end of the day: back where we started. This time the big kids got an ice cream snack while Shaan was being changed. They couldn't eat it fast enough - they all just wanted to be back playing in the rocks again.