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Filtering dirty water

Van de Graaf Generator

The static electricity makes your hair stick up. And if someone touches you it gives them a shock.

Rocket launch

William

This kiddo turns 3 in a few days!

With his good buddy Ethan. We play with Ethan a lot. This week we had a picnic together. 

A science project at mom-and-me preschool.

A field trip to the fire station

William is a picky eater, but he loves pizza and cheeseburgers. He also loves Lion Guard, PJ Masks, and Dr. Seuss books.

Huge Birthday Surprise!

Grandma and Grandpa Baker gave us the best birthday surprise ever by showing up on Scott's birthday and hanging out with us for about 8 hours. We picked the kids up from school:

Photo credit for these two pictures goes to Owen:

Played with Baby Emma:

Playing ariplane with Grandpa

With Uncle Aidan

With Uncle Conner

Played at the park (great weather!):

And surprised Dad after work with dinner from Rudy's BBQ, cake and ice cream, and a good visit:

Who's Who?

Which kid is which? Pictures taken at 3 months. Answer in comments.

5 Months

Emma turned 5 months last week:

Stuff

The weather was perfect today, so we went on a hike:

Then Owen went to a friend's birthday party (and William tagged along):

William raided Owen's goody bag after the party was over, lol.

It's that time of year again...

Bluebonnet season! Bluebonnets are the state flower, and this time of year they're everywhere. It's a thing for locals to snap a bluebonnet picture each spring. We saw especially beautiful wildflowers on our trip to Corpus, but didn't get any pictures. These ones were taken in the Austin area:

Corpus Christi Trip

Our first stop was lunch at Whataburger on the Bay. The first Whataburger was in Corpus Christi in 1950. This particular Whataburger is two stories tall and overlooks Corpus Christi Bay:

Next we went for a stroll along the Downtown Seawall. We got to see a lot of cool birds and boats:

Along the seawall was a Selena memorial. She was a famous Tejano singer from Corpus.
Emily remembers learning about her in high school Spanish class.

With our good pal, Capitan Blas Maria de la Garza Falcon (Gotta love those Spanish names!)

See the birds perched on the posts?

Fishermen and giant pelicans

Next we played on North Beach, right outside our AirBNB condo:

Sand angels

You can see our condo in the background. We were on the second story, third balcony from the left.

Building sand castles

You can see the U.S.S. Lexington in the background

The next morning we did a beach walk. We had fun watching the boats come in. And the kids picked some flowers:

Darn it! We didn't see any jelly fish.

The only shark we saw on our trip.

There were lots and lots of seagulls

Then we went to Whitecap Beach on Padre Island. The waves were bigger, and the sand was really soft. It was very beautiful:

Picnicking out of the back of the van

Flying kites

Shell collecting

We also rode the Port Aransas Ferry, but didn't get any pictures. Then we had Tex-Mex at Chuy's:

The next morning we watched the sunrise from our balcony...

...And fed some seagulls: