Keeping busy

Miss M doesn't go back to school for another month. I have found that it is essential to have things planned each day or the day gets wasted by the two of us driving each other nuts with her constant demands and my constant frustration or it's wasted in front of the television.

Thankfully we have passes to a number of museums/zoos and we're working our way through each of them.

The kids like the zoo and the LP Zoo is so much smaller and manageable when you have kids who won't always ride in a stroller. And being a lot pregnant the LP Zoo is manageable for my ever-growing self while managing two kids.

 He still just wants to be one with the animals.

We went to the children's museum by ourselves last week during member-only hours and we were the only people in some of the rooms for the majority of the time. The kids through it was great. We're heading there again tomorrow since it was such a success.  Unfortunately the kids discovered the water room and therefore we will be needing to take a change of clothes and try to avoid it until the end. Mr. Man is at a nice age where he can play and not get abused too easily.

He was so proud of himself here b/c he was able to climb up the ladder and play with Miss M.

He was also enthralled with putting the nuts in the holes in the building area. I was pretty happy that none of the nuts/bolts ended up in his mouth.

 Miss M is big enough and daring enough to do the tree house climbing by herself.

And the best part about being busy and tackling all of the museums/zoos is nap times are usually had by all. I went to check on Miss M after the children's museum b/c I heard her kicking and I was only able to open the door a few inches b/c someone crashed on their floor.

We were invited over to a friend's house for dinner Friday night. It was fun to destroy someone else's house and leave. Oh and it's fun to hang out and catch up.

Yesterday we went to the Brookfield Zoo. I don't like the Brookfield zoo much. It's too big and too spread out for my liking but the kids enjoy it. We met our friends Rodie and Eddie. We don't go anywhere for long before Miss M asks for snacks.

Yesterday while we were at the zoo she asked me what I packed for snacks. I told her not to worry about what I packed and that I had packed enough. She looked at me seriously and said I didn't ask you how much you packed. I asked you what you packed. Oh. She had me there. She did ask me what I packed. So I told her knowing that upon telling her what I packed she would demand a snack.

We ended up in the children's play area b/c it was shaded, contained, partially air conditioned, and had a restroom close by. The kids enjoyed it enough. There was an area with a rabbit in a cage and a cat the kids could pet. I think Mr. Man scared all the people and animals as all he could do was scream with excitement.