Natural History Museum

On Saturday, we had absolutely nothing, and I mean NOTHING to do. The house was clean, laundry was done, we did not have anything planned. It was really nice. We just read a book about doing nothing and how much fun you can have not planning your day. This is a big challenge for me. I love lists and having things planned. I am not very spontaneous.

Taylor, Isabella and Aiden

So with nothing to do we hopped onto the Internet looking for activities for the kids. We decided to go to the Natural History Museum. Rachel, Alexander and Isabella joined us. The kids absolutely loved it. There was a special exhibit on frogs. They were able to squirt a bullfrog with water, make frogs out of rocks and paint them.

Afterwards we wandered around the museum. Taylor was very scared of the dinosaur at first but finally got this close for a picture. Aiden loved the mining cave and making an earthquake. Taylor liked pushing the light buttons to see the tarantula and the scorpion. I still get the chills even thinking about it. But Taylor's absolute favorite things was digging for bones. She almost climbed in the sand pit or fell headfirst since she was not quite tall enough to stand on the rock and still reach the dinosaur bones.

We had a very successful day of doing nothing! Until next time!

Bedtime

We started some bad habits for bedtime with our kids. We let them fall asleep in our bed and then take them to their room. Taylor usually only spends a few hours in her room before making the journey back to our bed. We have been trying to change this over the last few weeks. Aiden is excellent at going to sleep in him own room now. He will almost always stay in him bed all night, except for the occasional bad dream when I wake up with his cute little face sleeping on my pillow.

Taylor has been an entirely different story. She loves sleeping in Mom and Dad's room, especially on Mom's pillow leaving me about 6 inches of our king size bed for me to sleep. This has not be a problem until I got pregnant and my belly does not fit in those six inches anymore.

However this last week Taylor has grow leaps and bounds. First she is now potty trained. We have had a few accidents, but 90% of the time she is potty trained. YEAH!!!! Second, she fell asleep in her own bed last night, stayed their the whole night and woke up dry. She is officially a big girl now and no longer my little baby.

GOOD JOB TAYLOR!!! WE LOVE YOU!

Ballerina

Megan took some cute pictures of Taylor yesterday. She was practicing her ballet moves. We hope to start her in classes when she turns 3.