bubbles, balls and burritos

Just more updates of what we've been up to lately. Jessie was off of school last week for Spring Break. She has become skilled at farming herself out to various Aunts & Uncles and Grammy and Grampy's houses during her vacations for sleepovers. Thankfully, they are willing to except her "maybe since I am out of school this week we could plan a sleepover," invitations. So Tuesday J spent the night at Gram & Grampy's house then came home to repack the overnight bag and took off with Aunt Lauren to stay with her and Uncle Dan. I think their chocolate lab Simon was a huge perk. Jessie loves to play with him and ditched an outing with Lauren Wednesday night to stay home with Uncle Dan and Simon. I know Jessie had a great time but we missed her at home. She really is a good big sister and helper around the house, even though it goes to her head sometimes and she gets bossy. Reminds me of someone I know personally ;) who also has 2 younger brothers and used to do the exact same things.

Anyway, Thursday we met Lauren and Jessie at the Children's Museum for an afternoon of fun. Dave had to take off from there to get to work and we stayed for a couple more hours. The highlights of the museum were;
the bubble making contraptions (Toby's fav)
the water zone (Logan's fav)
and the tennis ball 'roller coaster' Jessie called it- her favorite
Toby also liked the microscope they had set up. He spent at least 10 minutes there by himself and would have stayed longer if we weren't all hungry and wanted to go. Aunt Lauren helped make each kid a corn husk doll and pretend pizzas. Thanks Lauren for suggesting such a fun place to go on your and J's time out of school. I couldn't have stayed after Dave left without you!





















































After the museum we needed food pronto so we ate at Lauren's favorite Mexican place for lunch. the kids had tacos and quesadillas, and Lauren and I had burritos with their special orange salsa. It was SO yummy. By the time we had eaten and got back into the car we were all tired. I had 4 sleeping kids by the time we got home. good times.