Fun Weekend! (Last Weekend)

  We had the best weekend this past week!  On Friday we headed to the cities with the kids.  We had planned on staying with Joe and Andrea and family, but Dan also wanted to watch one of the students from our church wrestle so we headed down early.  We squeezed in a visit to the Children's Museum and we had a blast!

 The wrestling tournament was down the block so Dan ran down for a half hour and came back.  I'm not sure who had more fun though us or the kids at the museum.  It's a toss up:) There are probably six different exhibits, but we only made it to one!  It's called "Our World" and it's a little town.  The first room was the art gallery and the kids built and threw around these weird blue "things".  Svea built this sculpture!

Then they headed to the karaoke/dance room where they could see themselves singing on the screen.  Kieran was the DJ and loved it!  You could push these buttons and change the song.

Check out my big turn table Dad and Mom!

Svea and Daddy performing on the big screen! Kieran loved to just go up there and sit and watch himself or the scenes in the background.  I think this was Kieran's favorite room.  He kept running back to it after we had left it.

Then we headed to the backyard and the kids loved playing in the dog house with the dog!

This kid was giddy the whole time we were there!

Hugs and kisses for the puppy!

Trying to take a picture together.  See the flowers by the fence...You could "pick" those.  We were so proud of Svea, she'd pick a bunch of flowers and then go around and give random people that she didn't know one flower.

Then it was time to head to the kitchen.  They were hungry:)  Svea was so into what she was doing I kept asking her what she was cooking and she couldn't even hear me.  While she did that there was a little tables and chairs area and Kieran was bringing food to the tables. 

 It was just an amazing place to take the kids.  I can't wait to take them there again!

He did not want to stop for a picture.  "Put me down Mom, there is too much to play with"!

And then there was the grocery store.  There was more intense play where Svea didn't hear a word we would say.  At this point Dan had run down the block and I didn't get as many pictures as these two were just everywhere, but it was SO much fun!

Gathering food for purchase!

We'll definitely go again and see more exhibits next time too!

We had pizza with my family, hung out after the kids went to bed, had breakfast in the morning and just hung out, and then went to a community center in the afternoon to play at the indoor playground.  This place was so cool!  It was a jungle gym that went up to the ceiling, but had mesh walls protecting everything.  Dan had to go with Svea because she wasn't quite big enough to climb up everything.  There was one tube slide that Kieran could climb up the mats to and then I would get him situated and then send him down to Dan.  That kid went around and around I bet 40 times.  Both of them were sleeping before I could get my seat belt on in the car.  That is one nice thing about the cities and all of the fun things to do.  Mom and Dad were exhausted when we got home, but it was so worth it! It was great getting to see Joe, Andrea, and the kids! I love it when we get to do stuff like this!