Here's the result of one of our projects over the past month. I was pulling out weeds one day and found a couple caterpillars. So we managed to keep these little guys alive and they did their little cocoon thing and came out as butterflies. I'm not so sure the boys were as intrigued as I was. But I thought it was very cool. Here is our second butterfly as he is getting ready to make his big escape.
The other day I took the boys down to Barbers Point beach. This is really not a great beach for swimming or doing any beach digging (it is several hundred yards from a garbage processing facility and the beach itself has a lot of glass, etc in it. BUT, it does have a nice rocky shoreline with lots of little tidepools. So the boys like to walk along the rocks and check in the little pools to see what fish and things are stuck in the little pools. It was a nice diversion for one morning anyways... 
Last weekend our community association had their Christmas festival. There was a carnival ride, a bounce house, and santa came to actually hand out presents to the kids. They had some cookies and juice for the kids too. It was all free and the kids had a great time. There seems to be a lot more free entertainment here than I remember in St. Louis, but maybe I didn't look hard enough there. 
Cole sat with Santa to get his present but he was not thrilled (again)
Adam didn't actually get close enough to him to sit on his lap
Friends told us about the harbor lights tour that is put on by the Navy. They use the shuttle boats that they normally use for the Arizona memorial tours and they use them to give boat rides out into the harbor where all the huge warships and submarines are docked and the boats are all decked out with Christmas lights and inflatable decorations. They had Christmas music on the boats and lots of fun, and again it was all free. I had a great time and I think the kids thought it was pretty cool. I only had my cellphone camera, so I got a couple of poor photos...
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