we really did have a wonderful time though. we showed up to jenn's and after transferring 2 car seats into her mini van we headed off to the grand rapids children museum. hayden actually had been to the museum last year at this time when mom took him on a trip to visit 1 1/2 month old rainah while i was still working. i believe that he remembered quite a bit of it as he kept asking to go see "the cars" which turned out to be a yellow slug bug.
they were doing a "bob the builder" thing so they had all sorts of tool type things and all of the cars from the bob the builder show. at one of the tables they had nuts and bolts and screws that you could put on a magnetic strip. hayden played for a couple of minutes while rainah and talan could have stood there for hours putting them in their mouths while we told them "no" and took them out. many minutes after leaving the table i looked in talan's mouth and found one of the washers. awesome parenting, i know.
hayden's favorite part at the museum was the bubble tables where he could make giant bubbles and one where he could actually pull a lever and stand inside of a giant bubble. he actually never was able to make the bubble go above his head, but he got close.
hayden, talan and rainah all also loved this little ramp that had different size bells that you could move around and then push golf balls down and listen to the dinging. they stayed there for quite awhile. and hayden even actually shared occasionally.
at the end of our visit we somehow got hayden to go into the arts and crafts room where he made his own rubber stamp that he was able to take home.
keeping the amazing parenting alive, at about 2pm we decided it was about time to leave and go get some lunch. lucky for me talan will still happily take a bottle and hayden could care less about eating so 2pm wasn't so much a big deal.
don met up with us and we had a really good lunch where hayden ate 1/2 of his french fries and drank his chocolate milk and talan and rainah had more food on the floor than in their stomachs. but they still managed to get quite a bit in there too. talan even ate quite a bit of the ham from my omelet. while in the car hayden said "talan still has a piece of ham in his mouth." that piece of ham probably stayed in his mouth for about 1/2 hour....just like his brother. oh well, at least he eats more than hayden.
after lunch we headed back to jenn and don's and let the kids play for awhile. i tried getting hayden to eat his leftover mac and cheese from lunch, which he didn't do, and then we packed up and left for home around 6pm. besides the spots where it was snowing, the ride was uneventful and we got home a little before 8:30pm.
we'll be taking another trip out there on the 1st to see justin's band play. i'm hoping for a little bit warmer weather this time around.
thanks for having us jenn, don and rainah! we'll see you next weekend.
hayden and talan in the mirror tunnel. hayden kept saying "there's so many of me!" yeah, that's just what this world needs:
rainah and talan in the mirror tunnel:
the bubble table:
more bubble fun:
this was a bob the builder water pump thing that all three kids loved and stayed at for quite some time:
doin' their own thing:
talan picked the flowers in the flower garden and then ate them:
helpful hayden planted the flowers:
talan watching rainah put washers in her mouth:
talan looking around to see if anyone was watching him:
about the time i thought "i think there's something in his mouth":
the bell ramp:
they all enjoyed it:
proof hayden actually did a craft. and talan shoving food in his mouth:
the masterpiece is finished:
hayden driving home:
minutes before the crash:
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