The kids asked for Big Pancake for breakfast. I usually eat mine with eggs and spinach and bacon. After seeing mine Theo wanted some poached eggs too. Meadow turned another one of my old pants into a hoodie for tiger. She's never finished with her crafting. I asked Meadow if she wanted to go hiking or biking today and she chose biking.  

On the night before St Patricks Day, Meadow made a leprechaun trap.  Maybe next year Meadow.   Meadow was having a rough morning and needed a hug.  She wanted to play Zelda all day long. The rest of us wanted to go on a hike. We spend so much time getting these kids to get outside and once they are outside they don't want to come back in. Scott chose this weeks hike based off his current love of old growth forests. Wolsfeld Woods SNA just west of the cities in Medina. It's home to the tallest sugar maple in the state.

  We're late this year but smoothie season is back. I had no idea there was a season. With the snow mostly melted that means the trails at the parks are open to hikers again. I figured the closer state parks would be busy so we settled on Wild River State Park.  

  We went big for my birthday cabin weekend this year. Scott even said, What is this your 40th birthday? Usually we just do one or two nights somewhere but this year we did 4 nights.  I figured we wouldn't be traveling quite as much this year, so we could splurge a bit for Brooke's birthday weekend. We started our first night at a  yurt in Cable, Wisconsin  to break up the drive.   It was a pretty hike in.  They insisted you'd need snowshoes or a fat bike, but really the trail was tamped down so much we could've used just boots. I had no idea we would be staying in the middle of miles of skiing and snowshoeing trails. You can snowshoe or ski right up to the yurt.   

  It's been warmer out so Theo and I have started going on adventures everyday. I've been playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild on our Nintendo Switch and Theo loves watching the game. I talked him into going to the woods near our house by calling it the  Bobilikin Woods (actually bokoblin , but that's how he says it). Theo was instantly excited with the prospect of destroying some goblins in the woods. He brought along a Duplo as his Sheikah Slate . Just like Link. He loves to pretend to be Link everyday since he got his sword and shield.  Theo walked all the way across Lyndale Park and over to the bird sancturary. In his element.  When we got home he fell asleep on the couch. He was pooped. The next day we went back out again. This rock became a mysterious shrine. While Theo was hunting for bobilikins it was the perfect excuse to travel some of the trails that had been created through the bird sanctuaries marsh and ponds. Many  bobilikins were destroyed and t...

Our little guy has turned 3. Showing how old you are with your fingers can be tricky. He's been working on it all week. Of course he got his favorite foods today. PB&J for lunch. Once Meadow got home from school we let him open his gifts. I got him some waterproof mittens which weren't very exciting to open.  Meadow and I picked him up a foam sword and shield that almost looks like the master sword from Zelda. This was way more exciting. They picked out the perfect gift for him. He has been using Meadow's sword or sticks and making his own shield out of found objects. Now the kids can choose between lightsabers and swords. We loved Meadow's ice cream cake so we had to get one for Theo too. From Sebastian Joe's if you don't know. Meadow had a Nicollet Pothole Cake. For Theo's birthday we tried the oreo one. He needed help blowing out his candles. The cake was basically a fancier version of the classic Dairy Queen Cake. If I had a choice I'd pick the N...