A visit to Children's (the fun one!)

I've noticed that Chris and I refer to both a hospital and a museum as "Children's".  Hmm, this could become confusing for Bennett at some point. (Example: "We need to take Bennett to Children's for an appointment." versus "What should we do today?  How about a trip to Children's?")

But on Sunday we decided to take advantage of our membership to the Children's Museum (only one more visit and it will have paid for itself).  Like pretty much every other time we've gone there, it was a mad house!  They have a large 3-story climbing structure that we debated allowing him to go on.  Once we saw how crazy it was there we knew we wouldn't let him.  He has severe selective listening, so I think it would be quite difficult to get him out of there when it was time to move on to something else.

What was fun though is that we explored a number of areas that we haven't seen on previous visits.  Such as:

Shooting baskets with Daddy

Playing in the grocery store (surprisingly not as interested in this as we thought he would be)

And going to a (free) performance of the Three Little Pigs.  It had audience participation, and days later he is putting a finger on his chin and saying "chin, chin chin" (not by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin).

Other moments this week....

One night Bennett started telling us a story about getting money from Uncle Andrew.  He must be thinking about this a lot, because he kept on talking about it that night, and he still keeps bringing it up.

Here he is microwaving an egg.  Playing with that is an almost daily favorite!

When we picked him up from school one day we saw him sitting in the pre-k room reading.  Apparently he sat himself in the chair, covered himself with a blanket, and then pulled the other chair over so that he could rest his book on it.

We got some snow this week so after school Daddy and Bennett finished shoveling the driveway, getting the bits that the plow had missed.  The next day he was upset that he couldn't go out and shovel again.

I've always been pro play-dough.  We've given it as gifts before to our nieces and nephew and their parents have complained that it's a horrible gift because it gets ground into the carpet.  We've always thought this was an odd excuse- just don't allow the kid to play with it in a room that has carpet.  However, for us this means it can only be used in the kitchen.  And since we lack a kitchen table, it seldom gets played with (much to Bennett's dismay).  Last week I pulled Bennett's learning tower over to the counter and let him go to town.  He had a blast.  Note to self: keep counter clean so that Bennett can play more often.

And then these next pictures are an example of what happens when Mum and Dad want to try to sleep a little longer.  Even though Bennett *can* get out of bed on his own, he doesn't.  So Sunday I got him up and we told him to play.  Occasionally he would bring something over to one of us, but he mostly played on his own.

Books being strewn on the floor. 
The sound of these being pulled off the shelf is what finally got me out of bed.



Clothes that used to be neatly folded in the basket and on top of those bins.



Play food, brought up from downstairs. 
There actually is a lot more that you can't see.