Museum of Flight

We live in a great city that provides tons of fun things for us to do - and lots of them for free! Today our local art museum had free day in celebration of "Japanese Culture Day". We walked around and looked at all the art, did some crafts and even had dragons painted on their arms (they weren't too crazy about having their faces painted). I know they are a little young to appreciate all the art right now, but I look forward to being able to take them there as they get older and we begin to learn about different time periods, people, and places. There's really a lot to learn there! They still enjoyed just walking around and looking at everything. They did a great job at "looking with their eyes" and not touching anything - I was very proud :)
Last week we had the opportunity to go to a local Flight Museum - it was also free in celebration of National Flight day (or something like that) - anyhoo, it's not someplace I think I would have taken the boys at this age had it not been free but I'm so glad we did! They provided lots of activities for the kids (even a jumpy house) plus several planes they were actually able to climb in and "drive" - what more could a boy ask for! :) This is another place that will be a great resource as they get older and we begin to learn about our country's history.

With our friend Beau in front of a WW II planeIn the cockpitDouble Trouble :)

More flying :)

Little boy in a big plane :)

They had a great activity room for the kids with lots of play planes for them - this wasn't as cool as the real planes but it was still pretty fun!

Of course our sisser girl was with us - just as happy as she can be - just glad to be with those boys! I could just smother her with kisses! One of my favorite things she is doing right now is she laughs whenever anyone else does - it's so cute. If me or one of the boys starts laughing she will just crack up. She's really starting to "act" more like a girl than my boys - she likes to be a part of whatever is going on. Sometimes when I'm holding her, if I am looking away from her she will reach up and pull my head to face her and just look me in the eyes and smile, like, "hey, I'm over here!"
Also, since her 9 month post she has gotten mobile - but not crawling yet. She literally just uses her arms to reach and drag the rest of her body across the floor. Who knows when she's going to stick that hiney up in the air and pull up those knees - but this is working for her for now - there's not too many places she can't pull/drag herself to now :)

Here are just two silly pics from the past week. My dad got the boys a little mini trampoline/jumpy house and they love it - I love it too because they burn a good bit of energy in it. Here they wanted to wear their swim goggles - and they were running around the house in their underwear - they just crack me up!

Really, the cutest 2 year old EVER:)!