Children's museum

There was a day that Gaetan was going to be gone for the majority of the day, so I thought that I would take the crazies up to the children's museum.  It's a bit of a drive but that meant that some of the long day was cut by driving and we haven't been there in awhile, so I thought that it would be nice.  As soon as we parked Dude said that he had to pee and couldn't hold it the few blocks it was to the museum so we ducked into this salon that was by the car and they were gracious enough to let us use their bathroom.  Well, I guess it was everybody's idea to go to the museum because it was PACKED.  So much so that they had people at the door with the counters making sure that they weren't past capacity... and I have only seen them do that once before and that was at Halloween.  I'm not gonna lie, I was a little overwhelmed.  The crazies for the most part did a good job sticking together and staying where I could see them.  It was hard though because Norah wanted to get out and play but wasn't as good about listening and following the sibs.  I had just watched this episode on a show too where the Mom was just chatting with another Mom, just like any regular day and her kid gets snatched... just like that.  So, admittedly I was a bit more on edge about that, but I think the kids had a good time.

They had a new exhibit up about making your own sheet/couch fort.  It was really cool, but then the kids would disappear underneath it and I couldn't see them and didn't know where they would pop out... which didn't really ease the anxiety.  We played and had a snack until it was time to drive back and pick Papa up.

I thought his picture of Norah was so sweet... she looks like such a little girl!

At first she was just so interested in all the different kids and what was going on that she just people watched.  Also, I am so jealous at how easy squatting like that comes to kids!  Not so easy for adults!

This peg, light board was her favorite

Lucy is a crazy person!  haha

Doing some tangrams together... Norah thinks it delicious! haha

Hanging out in the tree house... one of the few moments they were all in the same area together

They were building their fort

had a cool slide in the middle of all of the fort building

Overall, it was a good day.  The kids had fun and it felt nice knowing that I was capable of taking them out solo :)  I think we are going to head back there this week so that they can play extra hard in that really cool exhibit.  After we were done playing we walked to a friend's business downtown and got smoothies!  A nice refreshing little treat to end the adventure.

Mango smoothies for all!

JVG