We Love MHK

For a little over a month, we've been back in our home sweet home of Manhattan! We're renting/house sitting for a professor who is out of the country this semester, which has been the perfect arrangement. 

Manhattan is such an incredible town for families, in addition to college students. There are so many fun things to do here with the kids! While we're in town, we've been trying to soak up every last drop of all the things we love about MHK! Here's a picture tour of what we've been up to :)

Exploring the toys in "our" house!

 We've been eating LOTS of donuts at the Manhattan original Varsity Donuts shop

 Checking out the newly renovated Children's Section at the library

 Jumping, bouncing, climbing, and running at open gym at the gymnastics center!

 Even grocery shopping is fun with car carts :)

 Playing outside

 We've gone to story time at the library almost every week. We're loving it!

 Playing at the parks when we had nice weather!

 Nerf wars in the basement...

 Shopping at Target!

 More varsity donuts with friends! Alexa was Landon's best friend before we left for India!

 Playing with all the great toys in the basement toy closet!

 Varsity Donuts again...this time with Grandma!

 Hiking around the hills in our neighborhood! Landon was there but refused to be in the picture.

 One of our most favorite things we've done twice now is Zoo school. The local zoo does a program for preschoolers where there's  theme each week, and they read a story, do a couple of crafts/activities, and then get to see some animals! We're going again this Wednesday and can't wait! We go there with my friend Alissa and her two kids, Hannah and Josh.

 Making clay animals at zoo school. This day we went outside to see the wallabees (sp? They're like mini kangaroos). But it was FREEZING outside so I did not take a picture.

 So proud of his monkey.

 Week 2 of zoo school! Painting with feathers.

 Checking out the ferrets. They also got to touch an opossum. I did not take a picture of that because, gag. I aim for opossums with my car, and let me tell you, they're uglier and creepier up close than from inside the car. 

 Then they got to watch Patrick the Duck eat some crickets! 

 Then they were supposed to follow Patrick around and mimic what he did. Landon loved waddling and quacking following him around.

 Throwing coins into the fountain at the mall. We were there to find a "coming home" outfit for Baby Brother, so we tried to do something fun for them too.

 Building a snowman with Daddy!

Landon has been going to Awanas, which he's actually been terrified of because the song time scares him because it's too loud :)  This last week he got his official vest though and is very proud of his Cubbies "best," as he calls it, so we're hoping he'll be more eager this week. 

Not pictured: Many, many trips to Chick Fil A for wonderful food and a great play area. We're regular customers :)

It's been a blast. We're loving loving loving our time in Manhattan, and I'm glad we have a couple more months left! Trying to take advantage of all the great activities for the kids to do while we're home before we head back to India!