Children's Museum

Last week Brian decided to take a day off and work on his application for his professional engineering license. Apparently this thing is quite a process so a full day still didin't get it done. But at least at this point he is finally started it. This has been hanging over his head for quite a few years now.  After this follows a huge test. Yuck!

So I tell you all of that because it meant we needed to get out of the house for as much of the day as possible. This lead us to the Children's Museum in Commerce. It takes shy of an hour to get there and a few hours to play with lunch sounded like a great plan. And it was! I invited our little friend, Lyla hoping that would encourage Natalie to play and not have me follow her around the entire time. That worked too! The girls never get much time just the two of them so it was nice to see them interact. I want them to grow up as close friends. Both being adopted and biracial, I like that Natalie will have someone else to relate to her exact situation.

As you can see they were both thrilled to be snapping these pictures=)

 

A little fishing was in order for the day.

 

This place was basically a very large room with different sections/play areas set up. There was anything from a grocery store to a kitchen to a pizza place and more! I loved this little hand print picture here talking about body heat.  Natalie really seemed to enjoy the bubble room. There were two large hoops you could stand in and bring up a bubble around you. Fun times! I could never get a good picture because I was trying to keep the girls from swimming in the bubbles. Natalie had already stepped one foot completely in it!

 

I love this one with the two girls!

 

 

  Randomly enough we ran into my friend, Susan and her 3 kiddos while  we were there! By about 11:30 or 12 we had the entire place to ourselves. I couldn't believe it! Another random note was that we had both packed picnic lunches so we gathered around a huge tree right outside the museum and had lunch. It was a beautiful day to enjoy a picnic. Susan asked the lady if we could come back after lunch and she was so generous to let us. So, the kids played about another hour before we decided to head on back. It was going to be perfect timing for my two littles to nap in the car so I was thrilled (turned out neither one fell asleep though)!

 

Of course we had to have a group shot before we left! This was the best one I took of about 5 shots. Susan's kids were perfect in every one. My two hoodlums were looking and pointing every which way but forward!

 

We had a great time and successfully killed 90% of the day so Brian could work=)