Future architect, shopper & astronaut?

After a stroller walk for Jacey and I to accompany Kellen and Tatum on their bikes, we had brunch, put Jacey down for a nap, cleaned up the house, and then headed to the Children's Museum once she woke up from her nap.

The kids had a BLAST.

They have redone quite a few of the exhibits since the last time we had visited, and the older two had fun rediscovering the exhibits.  Jacey wanted to go where the big kids were, especially on the rocket ship, which is expressly for kiddos 4 and up.  She wasn't pleased when I wouldn't let her play in it.  She did have a lot of fun in the "under 2" area, which made her forget (for the moment, anyway) about the forbidden areas.

She very much enjoyed the grocery store section, and REALLY liked to put things in her shopping cart and then, to a slightly lesser extent, put them back on the shelves.  She loved pushing the shopping cart around as well, but couldn't figure out why there wasn't a section for a baby doll to sit.  Smart cookie I have there, huh?

Actually, all three of the kids had some fun in that section!

I figured that Tatum would have gravitated towards the arts section, but she really surprised me by spending quite a bit of time in the construction zone, building a house.  Add that to her careful construction and decoration of her gingerbread graham cracker house referenced in an earlier post and who knows, I might just have a future architect on my hands!

Kellen seemed to want to stay in the rocket.  I think he would have been fine to play there the entire time.  He made some new friends, but I forced encouraged him to join his sisters and me at the art section when we were painting and making igloos and polar bears.  He had a lot of fun with that, too.

And they had one of those 'insert your face here' signs that both kids wanted their picture made in, so....

They all really had a blast.  And while we were there, I got minimal attitude, which I appreciated.  After I got home, well....that was a different story, but hey...they were all wore out and naps were pretty much a breeze.

I'm just glad that I'm getting the chance to do this kind of "fun" stuff with the kids over this break.  This is the type of stuff I feel like I 'miss out' on as a work-outside-the-home mom.  So perhaps I go a little overboard on these activities when I have the chance.  :)