Fresh Air

Yes, we do have real live nature in Chicago. Okay, so it has to be fenced in and maintained by dedicated Park District employees, but it's nature nonetheless.

Saturday morning we took a very slow "hike" through the Nature Preserve a couple of miles from our home.plotting our course

leading the way

watching waterbugs skim across the surface

We saw a momma raccoon and her four babies and watched them for a long time. The video is actually pretty cool, take a look.

Spike also had fun climbing an old tree stump, until some other kids came running up and wanted to climb too. Here he is pictured hollering at them, "No climb Izey's tree!"

Anders slept in the Baby Bjorn half of the hike. When he woke up, we found a bench where I could nurse him, and then he faced forward in the Bjorn so he could take in the sights, too. Here's Ando conked out after a day full of fresh air.