April 27, 2016 - May 3, 2016 - 21 months and 2 weeks

This is actually the only good photo this week… but it sure is an awesome one!!!

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The rest of these photos were dated wrong and ended up in this week's folder by mistake -      but they are pretty sweet (and funny!) so I'm including them anyway.  

Leftovers from the Family Visit...

We'll keep the rest of this photo shoot private… ;-)

March 16, 2016 - March 22, 2016 - 20 months and 1 week

Kadin still loves eating snow.

Afternoon walk with little Miss Annie.

Ended the day with Bucky entertaining Kadin with his amazing snowball catching abilities!

He's so good at it, the snowball was headed right at right at Kadin and… whoosh… in comes Buck to save the day!

Here comes another one….

Ooops.  Bucky is still trying to figure out what happened to the snowball.  Kadin could have told him if his mouth wasn't so filled up with snow!!

January 6, 2016 - January 12, 2016 - 17 months and 4 weeks

It's so hard to just pick a few photos when you have 300 of them to choose from!!  I did my best…

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We left Monte Verde and headed to "Grampa Ninja's", a B&B, in the small town of Barrance, just outside of Punta Arenas.  Fun spot with rolling farmland hills and pretty cliffs by the beach.  Kadin really liked the pool and the cows.

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We also went to one of my favorite beaches, Playa Doña Ana, where Kadin had his first encounter with the ocean and crashing waves.  Huge smiles and laughs as I held him up in the waves, letting the foaming swell slosh him around.

The Pizote, also known as a Coati - they were at the entrance to the beach.

 As we left the beach, we saw a bunch of Capuchin Monkeys (Mono Carablanca) playing in a wooded grove.  They were about 6 feet from me.  I had to keep Kadin a safer distance away or he would have run off to join them!

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Next, we traveled down the coast to see the crocodiles at the Tarcoles River and then to visit the Carara National Park.  While we were hiking, we had a torrential downpour that lasted about 20 minutes – it was super refreshing considering how overheated we had been earlier that morning!

How many crocodiles do you see??

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We packed up and continued traveling south, to the town of Quepos.  

I taught Kadin how to "toast" with the Spanish phrase, "chin chin".  He loves it!

December 2 - December 8, 2015 - 16 months and 3 weeks

Another week around town…

I'm trying to teach him the main rule of snow-eating – Do not eat the yellow snow!!  (So far, so good, although I'm watching out for him too.)

Storytime at the library ends with a craft project (see next photo) and a bunch of kids playing with the new library's activity wall.  Choo choo!

This was one of the few times I tried to help Kadin with the craft project after storytime.  Actually, what happened was that I made the snowman, despite Kadin's attempts to eat the styrofoam, tear the eyes off, and pull his head and arms off!  We both had fun though...

Another fun meal!

November 4 - November 10, 2015 - 15 months and 3 weeks

Winter-time:  snuggling cozy at home, pizza-eating in our now-quiet town, and sledding down the road to go dig out our car from under 8 inches of snow...

October 28 - November 3, 2015 - 15 months and 2 weeks

Celebrating Halloween!  

Kadin was fascinated with all of the costumed people wandering the streets, and a bit scared of the talking and moving witch decoration at the Pub.  

He loved the gummy worms, taffy, and 3 Musketeers.  

October 21 - October 27, 2015 - 15 months and 1 week

Mish mash collection of random photos from the week... no special events, but a nice time hanging out around home and town.

Hanging out at the Flying Squirrel Cafe.. Mama, can't I go outside and play?!

One minute he's a rascally rabbit, the next, he's an adorable sleeping baby... 

Mmm, I love rice! 

Bummer it's a blurry photo, but we had a fun family evening playing at the playground downtown.

September 30 - October 6, 2015 - 14 months and 3 weeks

Brrrr… we had a full week of winter in September, with mixed snow and rain.  Kadin got to try out walking in the snow with his yellow rubber boots. 

When it was raining, we'd stay inside and Kadin loves his new (to him) horsey rocker.