More adventures in San Antonio

During the next few days we were busy bees.

 

 

We did a little shopping and AJ was giving Alex a piggy back ride around the store.

 

Then we went and watched How To Train Your Dragon 2 in style!  I LOVE these seats, they are totally awesome!!!  And it was cheaper than any movie theatre in WA or Germany.

 

Gracie said she was going to hold my hand the whole time, I didn't think she would, but she sure did!!!  :-)

 

Then we had a mom's night out.  We went to painting with a twist and had a blast!!!!  They bought me a sippy cup for wine and off we went to painting!

 

We painted the Texas state flower - it is totally interesting how you can paint the same picture and they all come out differently.  We had such a blast and thank Victor for watching the kids for us!

 

Then we had a big family BBQ and played Just Dance!!  Krista is really good at it, but I think with a little practice I might be able to beat her.  :-)

 

The kids kept telling us it was their turn, so we finally turned over the remotes and let them play.  LOL  It was such a fun time,  I know I have said that a lot, but being back with family is so wonderful!!!!

Austin

On Wednesday we headed to Austin.  Krista was our little planner on this trip, I am just glad it wasn't me this time!

 

The boys being silly, I don't know if I will ever get one of all of them smiling nicely. ;-)

 

We were going to go on a train ride, but it was a little bit of time before it left, so we headed to a playground for a little fun!  Though my boys were a little tall, but still had fun!!!

 

The girls!!!  So much fun with these ladies!!!

 

We decided it was hot, so some yummy popsicles were on the schedule before we took off on the train.  We are all ready to go!!!

 

A front view of our little train.

 

My riding partner!!!!

 

One of our views along the way!

 

After the train there was a little area that had information about water, etc.  AJ is checking out the periscope.

 

Checking out how the water works with erosion.  It was actually interesting and fairly informative.

 

After that we headed down to another hands on children's museum in Austin.  This one was really cool!!  Here the boys had to try and build "roads" between the islands so they could drive a car on it.

 

Michael is looking under a microscope at different types of material.

 

Another cool thing the boys had to build and then a marble goes down and you try and get it in the yellow bucket.  They did really good.

 

Michael is so sweet - he painted I love mom!!  Love this kid!

 

They had another cool place where the boys were able to make their own rockets.

 

 

Porchea is helping Michael with his rocket.

 

 

Here are their finished rockets!

 

 

Now is the fun part - shooting the rockets!   AJ's made it all the way to the wall!

 

 

Michael's also made it all the way to the wall.  They both had great rockets!!!

 

Porchea and AJ having fun with some color.

 

Michael playing with the lights

 

There was big lite bright that we were able to play with - so David loves Tammy

 

AJ is so sweet = AJ loves Mom!!!

 

Michael playing some water drums.

 

This was really cool, it was a piano with water.  It sounded like a organ.

 

Then outside for some play time.

 

They had a cool water place where the kids built a dam.

 

AJ and Michael on some pigs outside the museum.

 

I thought this was the coolest building!!

 

Then after dinner we went to Gourdough's for some HUGE donuts!!!

 

I knew Michael wouldn't want those fancy donuts so I brought powdered donuts.

 

I was going back and forth between this chocolaty delight and a strawberry one, the chocolate one won out.  But Porchea bought the strawberry one so I was able to taste it and they were all sooooo good!!!!  It was such a fun day in Austin!!!!  I really enjoy the town.

Witte Museum

On Tuesday June 24th, we took the troop to the Witte Museum in San Antonio.  It is a big children's museum with lots of hands on things for the kids to do.

 

There was quite a line to get in because on Tuesdays after 4:30 it is free, so the kids were playing around while we were waiting in line.

 

The boys jumped right in and started checking out where the dinosaurs used to live in this area.

 

Here they have a special exhibit going on that changes every month and a half or so.  This time it was called Grossology, all about the body.  Here the kids are in a giant nose!

 

Then we moved on to learning all about snot.  This faucet told them the different kinds from allergy, colds, etc.  It was quite funny.

 

Then Michael took a closer look at some snot stuff.

 

Then AJ went over to the barf zone.  You work on filling up a stomach and then emptying it again.  Gross, but sure taught the kids a lot about the human body.  :-)

 

And what exhibit about that stuff would be complete without fart noises.  They had all kinds there.

 

This was a game where you had to put good things in your throat and bad things down the other tube.  You used your hands to swat at them.  Gracie was a little to short to get the game to recognize her, so I gave her a little help.  :-)

 

Little monkeys Gracie and Michael - they both are always climbing.

 

Here was a pin ball machine called gas attack, the goal was to get as much gas as you could, do you see the legs on the machine?  LOL

 

 

Here they were putting "snot balls" into the nose, then every few minutes the nose would "sneeze" and send all the balls back down so you could re-load.

 

The fab five in a stomach.  They started out in the mouth, went down the throat (a slide), where in the stomach and then.....

 

crawled out the rectum.  The kids thought it was hilarious!!!!!

 

The big version of operation.

 

 

AJ and I were checking out our digestive tracks.  I think they were pretty good.  :-)

 

 

Then we headed outside to another area of the museum.  I really wish I had all of their energy, they are just go, go, go!

 

They were going through some old cabins and found a rocking chair.  AJ was in there first and then Michael climbed on, then the other three jumped on.  It was hilarious! 

 

They boys had to pull up their own weight.  They did really well!!  There were so many different things they were able to do inside, the kids were going all over the place.

 

 



 Music time!!!  And boys was it loud with all five kids playing the music!! 

 



 

They wouldn't smile at all for us, so we finally got them and of course Michael cracks me up!

 

Porchea and me - aren't we beautiful?!?  I think so!!!

It is going to get us, ruuuuuun!!!!!  We had a wonderful time at the museum, so much so we had to tear the kids away because it was almost 7 pm and we were getting hungry.  There was quite a bit to see and do and we didn't even get to see it all.