Kohl Children's Museum

Thanks to a great tip from a friend, we headed to the children's museum today. It was absolutely fabulous! We spend over 3 hours there, and neither kids complained about being hungry, or tired, or anything else and I had no problem managing them both by myself! There weren't many people there! I guess some of the schools around may still be in session, and summer camps haven't really gotten established yet enough for them to take field trips, so we shared the whole place with about 20 other families. For once, I walked out of there without a headache!

We started at the vet area... both my kids are animal lovers, and they really showed their affection for animals with how kids they were (for their age of course) with the stuff animals provided.

Then we headed to Potbelly's, where my lil girl made me a sandwich and a milkshake.

Next, we did some babysitting. I didn't know my daughter knew how to change a diaper!

Aren't they cute!

Next stop, Dominicks, where both kids did some great shopping!

Off to the car area, where my boy was in heaven!


I finally got talked into going to waterworks.... since there weren't many kids there, we didn't get that wet!

Fun on the tractor...

Building a house...

Face painting...

My weight...

Outside for some fun!

On our way out, we finally found the trains, which was even better than heaven for my lil boy.

Came home, and both kids took 2.5+ hour naps... so I'd say that was a successful day!

June in Chicago

What a weird day weather wise... it was cold when we went to the park this morning, then warm-up... this evening, we have had down pours, thunder and lightening, wind gusts, and now the sun is shining and its almost "balmy". Anyway, here are some pics of the kids enjoying the rain.

The "Super Big Park"

We have this wonderful and huge park about 10 minutes from our house, and last summer we started the tradition of heading over there every Sunday morning to run the kids around and get them tired so we could have a "family nap time" in the afternoon. Today, we started the tradition again (though the nap time thing didn't work for my lil girl!). Here are some pictures of the kids at the park at the beginning of summer... I'll try and remember to take some at the end of summer to so you can see if they've changed.

Memorial Day weekend

Our summer continued immediately after graduation with a trip down to the farm where my inlaws live. Ryan's sister and her family joined us there, as well as his brother.

The kids took a tractor ride with grandpa on Sat as he was finishing some work in the field.

The other major highlight of the weekend was the 4-wheeler. Both kids went on rides with Ryan multiple times!

Here are all the cousins playing together (minus the 9 month girl in Ryan's sister's family)

The dogs even enjoyed their weekend away!

Graduation

Our summer actually started out with my lil girls graduation, the last Thursday night in May. Lil Patriots does a great job with their preschool, and the graduation just made me love the program even more. Here's hoping our lil boy can get into the program after he turns 3.

Below are some pictures and the only video I could upload of the program that was put on by the preschool. I just got a new camera, and was playing with some of the settings that night, so most of the pictures didn't turn out... you can still get the idea!

Go Blackhawks!