Wonderful Wonderscope!

Last Thursday the kids and I were invited to tag along with our friend Tiffany, her kids (Noah and Lily), her friend Quinci and her kids (Dylan and Saylor) on their day trip to Wonderscope. I We met at Chik-Fil-A for lunch. The moms got to chit chat (and feed babies) while the big kids (aaah! "big" kids?!) played in the play area. When we first sat down Quinci said to me "we're pretty brave bringing 3 toddlers/preschoolers and 3 infants..." I added to that: "brave or insane!" :) After lunch we headed to the Children's Museum called Wonderscope. This is where we had gone the day of Sydney's 2nd birthday (and the day baby Lily was born!)

Our first room was the market/farm room. Sydney was quite the busy little farm girl! (Traci, you'd be proud!) She rounded up all 5 or 6 of the baby calf bottles and was still requesting more. She moved on from the bottles to the roosters....she gathered all of the roosters and tried taking Noah's. (It's as if she's a collector!) She gathered some strawberries from the garden (I think she had all of those too) and when it was time to switch rooms she threw a fit. Oh yes, it was a wonderful moment--I was "that" parent with "that" child. :) As I tried the "okay Syd see you later"--walking out the door technique, she proceeded to just walk right back in to the little barn and continue playing. Mind you, I had Gavin strapped to my front in his little carrier, asleep, while trying to remove a kicking, screaming toddler from the farm room. (insert SIGH here) At that point I was so frustrated I just wanted to leave (and in my frustration told her we were going to :/ oops...). Instead, she ended up taking a time out of a few minutes in the front of the building. We had a little chat and after that she did much better whenever we switched rooms.

with her buddy Noah!

collecting food from the "barn"

From the farm room we went to the art room (well to time out then the art room) where she got her face painted with green hearts that matched her shirt. From there we briskly walked past the water table room :) to the Legos room! We also hit the ball room before leaving.

Busy but still has time to "smile" for Mommy!

It was a fun day, exhausting but fun! It really was a true test for me, since it was my first day trip with the two kids by myself. Oh there were moments when I was about to lose my cool (I think I may have even mentioned needing a stiff drink or two--right Tiffany?) but we survived! It can only get easier....right?