I chose this dinosaur strictly on its crazy nose horn. A relative of the triceratops this single horned herbivore was found in the Cretaceous period and unlike many other herbivores is believed to run in herds of ONLY its species. In fact, a muddled 15 different different dinosaurs (of the same species) we found in a jumble at one of the dig sites. The Einiosaurus has been found only in Montana and was a solid and heavy dinosaur.

While there is only one video for this dinosaur from I’m a Dinosaur it is also available in the 360 imagery on the iPad app Fantastic Dinosaurs HD.

And now for the links. You can access EnchantedLearning’s fact sheet HERE. Age Of Dinosaurs has a map, facts and an interesting article HERE. The Smithsonian has a lengthy article that I skimmed a bit for Emanuel HERE. Prehistoric Wildlife has their information HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a fact page HERE. DinosaurKing has general statistics HERE. We used the top image for our colouring page HERE and of course don’t forget about Wiki HERE.

All 3 boys enjoying the lesson together

This “frightful lizard” was found in Alberta and Montana. A meat eater (much to Emanuel’s dismay), the Daspletosaurus was slightly smaller than the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Found in the late Cretaceous period it is thought to have some of the largest teeth of any known dinosaur. So while not as famous as the T-Rex it is a dinosaur of interest!

This dinosaur was featured in our Planet Dinosaur videos and while we could not load the images on the site, there is a great image of a hunter in action on the BBC site HERE. Of course Kidsdinos.com had their charts and graphs HERE. DinosaurKing has various statistics on this voracious hunter HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a brief entry HERE. Animal Planet has this dinosaur listed as only found in Canada but has a great picture of a fossilized skeleton HERE. There is a great human/dinosaur size comparison on Prehistoric Wildlife HERE. Of course Wiki has their entry HERE. And you can find out colouring page (though when Ken printed it for us it had the stamp across it, Emanuel was still happy) HERE.

Such a grin

Definitely less stressful, tiring and frustrating taking the drive through text message updates. We went to bed with the menfolk in Montana and proceeded until a little after lunch with them at the border. We are told the line was long but the process relatively painless. That is until they hit Calgary traffic… in rush hour (poor guys). I look forward to hearing their tale first hand. I am sure Ken will be more than willing to spin us a good one. 

Way to go Daddy and Baba!

So instead of go go go with 5 kids and 2 ladies we did a more relax, unwind and sit around sort of day. Wrote a letter or two, coloured in colouring books… you know, restive things.

Colouring Angry Birds

The kids did spend SOME time outside. Those neighbour boys (Billy, Jimmy and Charlie) while older than the boys are absolutely a godsend. Whenever they are out in the back so are ours running and playing and hopefully not making nuisances of themselves.

Gotta love a sunny day (Zander left)

We ended our evening with another movie – Anastasia, after watching a trip video of Nana and Baba’s from way back of them swimming with the sting rays. I think Echo preferred the fishy show. It was so quiet last night, going to bed without Ken sitting in the room typing away… and dark with the monitor and his usual ONE LIGHT turned off. It is so surreal, yesterday morning we were talking about Saturday with the Novaks and Friday afternoon walk around the blocks to check for garage sales… and here we are – guys in Canada packing up our long awaited personal items so that we can close down the storage unit. It feels like one more tie cut to our old life and I am unsure if that is a positive or negative. 

Pre movie supper

Emanuel’s creative endeavor

Anyway tonight there is more time to work on the cross stitch I have been doing. And of course work on the book reviews for the books I have read. Goodreads and my Kindle apphas been great to me lately. BUT I really want to make my way to the library soon! So be sure to check back for more reviews!  

Who IS that cute baby in the window?