Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted. Seems like we’ve been so busy with kids, work, school, traveling back home, and oh yeah, basically having someone sick for the past month and a half or better. It seems as if I’ve hardly had time to do any posting. Well, that’s going to change a bit tonight.
Just last week, Feb 7th weekend, we were graced by the presence of little Miss Maria. It was part of our Christmas gift to Ryan and Mikhael. We volunteered to have Maria come to Des Moines for a weekend of fun while Ryan and Mikheal got a final weekend to themselves before baby #2 gets here.
Maria arrived on Thursday afternoon, Mikhael brought her over and stayed for supper. That night we played a little bit and took a bath. This picture is of the kids all getting their teeth brushed and getting rid of those sugar bugs. Maria’s little hair doo in the tub reminds me of Poindexter from the old 80′s Saturday Night Lives.
After a great night’s sleep, the kids all woke up at a decent time. It was a good thing they all slept well because we had a big day planned for them. First item on the agenda after breakfast was to run down to the Science Center. Brayton and Lauren just love the Science Center downtown and we soon found out Maria did too. They got to touch snakes:
Make bubbles:
We also got to build with the giant building blocks, go vegetable shopping at the “farmers Market” and then put the vegetables on the conveyor belt. We got to play with the beach balls in the “physics room”, they got to put together the giant legos, and put their hands on a static electricity generator globe.
After all the playing was done, we all sat down and had a nice picnic lunch. Colette had made sandwiches, bananas, yougurt, chips, pears, and of course little rice crispy treats. We then trucked it home and the kids took great naps.
Once everyone was up from their naps, we decided it was time to go to play at a park since it was 55 degrees out and all the snow was melted. The kids had a great time swinging on the swings and playing on the playground equipment.
When we got home, we ate a little supper. Then it was time to make some desert. Colette mixed up some sugar cookie dough, and we let the kids make cookies. Maria was so cute, we let Brayton and Lauren toss some flour on the table and Maria looked at Colette like “can I really do this too?” It was great fun watching all the kids roll out dough and use the little cookie cutters to cut out the cookies. As the picture attests, the kids got quite dirty and we ended up doing baths again Saturday night.
Sunday morning came and we ate our last little breakfast with Maria. Ryan and Mikhael came back and picked her up after lunch at Hy Vee. We were sad to see her go. But we had a great time.
