Post Holiday days: Trains, a walk, and the Museum of Life and Science!

On one of the days Daddy took off, we went to the bounce house.  Here is Loki chilling out with Dad.

Breakfast time can be some of the most stress filed times or most fun filled.  It all depends.  

This was a good day

Jeanne practicing her menacing villain face.  She's really been into superhero's a lot lately (think MegaMind, Despicable Me and The Incredibles).  She loves the 'bad guys'.  Go figure.

Look at this chick and think of Austin Powers....

We dig into our Christmas gifts and pull out the Olivia dress up outfit.  Here is our new little ballerina.

So, we had been in the house for many days now, with either one of the kids having a mild cold or holidays, so I wrap those buggers up and take them out.  It wasn't too cold, just windy, which Loki apparently does not like.  At all.  Not even a little bit.

We spent a lot of time playing with trains or Legos.

How does she do that!?

Hubbers took the whole Christmas week off at home, so when he went back to work the first day, this is how he was greeted as soon as he came home.

Then the obligatory playing with trains while we both sit in your lap.

The Museum of Life and Science, a gift from Eileen, James and Laurie!

The first place we check out is the "North Carolina Wild" room.  

Here they are checking out the snakes.

This one is apparently sleeping.

Loki gets a chance to explore and play in a gated playroom.  Jeanne was very sweet and kept bringing him more toys to play with.

We don our coats and hats again to go play outside.

 

 WE PLAY LOUDLY OUTSIDE!

Make our way to the Butterfly house to warm up and relax.

Loki tickling himself with a plant.

The kids pause just long enough for me to take a picture of them. This, in and of itself is amazing.  

I'm just so curious at what they could both be looking at!  Why not at the CAMERA!

I feel like we see a glimpse of Loki's grown up face in this picture. 

His face looks longer, he looks more serious, less like a baby.

The bug room has a dissecting microscope hooked up to a camera so they can look at live bugs within a petri dish.  Today, she just looks at her fingers.

The play with bug puzzles together.

They both had a really great time, and despite Loki being in the stroller more than I wanted (it was crazy busy that day), he was worn out from all the looking and listening he took a super long nap.  Lucky me, Jeanne did too, without a fuss too.  Thank goodness.

 If you read parenting books or go to sites to look at milestones, you can find such tidbits as, "child can name 4 body parts" or "Begins to bang objects" etc.  I remember reading some where that Jeanne age should be able to stack 4 objects or some such nonsense. 

Here, she stacked all of Loki's blocks, even the half circles.

 

And I leave you with these videos:

 Loki just figuring out crawling.

Thank you Laurie 

A gift we finally brought home 9 months ago.