Nature Walk in New York

Aunt Dawn was going on a run at a Nature Trail near by (she was finish preparing for a marathon she ran this weekend!) so we decided to go and WALK.

First thing we saw was a little brook. We talked about the phrase "babbling brook."

There was an area with a lot of pine trees so it was covered with pine needles, but looked amazing with the morning sun peeking through!

Isabelle getting so big and loving walking on the trail!

Joseph said he wanted to look for dinosaur tracks and fossils. Katherine made his dream come true! She "drew dinosaur tracks." He was so excited he did not realize at first she was drawing them. It was fun even once he realized what was going on.

You can see Katherine drawing a track and Joseph looking at one. He realized it was her shortly after I took this picture and said "Mom, It's Katherine drawing them JUST FOR ME!"

The whole nature trail was 2 miles (and then you would still have 2 miles back - it was one way but only one parking lot!). Needless to say, 3 little kids and me pregnant and it colder than we are used to - we did NOT make it that far. We walked over a mile total.

This is where we decided to turn around. Beautiful pond just ahead of us.

 On our way back to the car.