Memorial Day Weekend

Last weekend we spent some time at the Little Red Schoolhouse in Palos. We'd never really taken Jimmy out hiking much in all these years, at least not like this, so he really enjoyed it. He thought it was cool to be in the middle of the woods--with nothing around us but trees, and he liked hiking along the little lake there. He also learned how to tell if a tree was a White Oak, so he kept pointing them out along the path.

We spied a few creatures here and there, most noticeably a ridiculously large frog. But we also saw a bunch of beehives and some turtles. Inside the schoolhouse they had a crow, which scared Josie a little when he cawed so loudly. Josie fell asleep once she got in her stroller, but before that definitely liked walking the path while holding Mom's and Jimmy's hands.