The cabin! The cabin! The cabin!

We went back to the cabin for a long weekend the past four days -- the first time the kids have been there since Labor Day. Needless to say, they were so excited! We've been talking about it for a couple months and even had a calendar on the wall, marking off the days. When we drove onto the road going up to the cabin, the two of them started yelling at the top of their lungs -- in pure joy -- "the cabin! the cabin! the cabin!"

The first thing they really wanted to do was ride their Barbie Jeep Power Wheels, but I told a little fib and said we needed to charge the battery since we arrived just at lunch time and nap time was coming up fast. But when naptime was over, they were back out there!

Here's a video:


Then they "helped" us rake the leaves (or more accurately "blow" with the leaf blower). Ben absolutely loved standing in the spray of leaves. Maddie wasn't quite so sure.

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28

On Sunday, the weather was pretty crappy so we were inside most of the time. After nap (while Ben was still sleeping) Maddie watched a "Sid the Science Kid" episode where they built a cave and explored the concept of darkness using flashlights. Maddie wanted to build her own cave -- so we did! Of course, we had to have flashlights, too. By then, Ben was awake. They especially loved Jamey's headlamp, which has red and green lights, in addition to the white one.

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28

Then we checked out the cool things you could do by shining the flashlight up at the white ceiling!!

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28

A couple other random pics from the weekend:

From 2011-10-28

From 2011-10-28