Visting Texas

If you’ve followed the blog from before (at Wordpress and not moved over here yet) then you’ll know that a trip to Texas means visiting my grandkids, now ages 2 and 4-1/2. So this blog post is mostly full of my favorite cute grandkid photos—and that is why there are so many photos—because when they are your grandkids they are all cute, right?

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Gathering eggs in the morning.

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Kasen usually has a truck or tractor or dinosaur (“eye-eye”) with him.

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Kirby pushed her brother on HER unicorn swing briefly before commandeering it for herself.

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Coming back from an “adventure” to the far side of the property before getting ready to go to town. One of more cats are usually following.

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Two kids on the way to town. There was an open house at the studio where Kirby goes to a weekly dance class. We went there first and then to the playground at Kirby’s school.

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After the playground we went to the Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country, a privately owned property that features dinosaur tracks. The website states: “The museum has over 200 dinosaur tracks and 28 separate trackways made approximatly 110 million years ago.  They are a part of the upper Glen Rose Formation of the early Cretaceoues period.” A non-profit was set up to provide protection for the property as to preserve it as an educational venue. 

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There is a sandbox where the visitors can unearth “fossils”.

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Dinosaur playground.

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More dinosaur tracks in an accessible area.

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Back home there was time for the trampoline (“champerine” as Kirby says)…

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…and a walk down the road.

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Making cornbread muffins for dinner.