Iowa Came to Town! - Finale!

It's taken me a while to sit down to finish sharing about the end of the week of family fun. We haven't even been all that busy, but the days seem to fly by anyways! So here it goes!

Thursday was quite possibly the busiest of the week, but one of my favorites! Mal joined the usual daytime group (Roger, Jill, Juliana, Sarah, Lana, Caleb and me) to go to the Children's Museum in Houston. Caleb and I had been once before with our playgroup, but he wasn't crawling at the time so it was a bit boring. I've been wanting to take him ever since, but hadn't found the time. So, needless to say, I was very excited to see how he would do now that he's moving around.

When we first got to the museum we all headed up to the "tot spot" together. It's meant for children ages 6 months to 36 months, so Juliana was a little older than the targeted age group. She seemed to be ok playing for a little while, but after a short while Jill, Roger and Mal went with her to the older kid area while Sarah and I stayed with the little ones. Caleb had a great time moving from one area to another crawling, creeping, playing with toys and seeing other people. Lana was much more relaxed in her playing, I think she had a good time, but she was very content staying in one area the whole time! Again, it was amazing to see how different two kids can be!

After playing I took Caleb down to the eating area to have a bottle and after a while the rest of the family joined us for lunch. We stayed there for a while and then decided to follow Juliana outside to the water area. We did take a quick detour to see a puppet show starring Juliana and Roger (which I didn't get any pictures of) before we made it to the water. We played out there for a few minutes before heading back inside for Caleb and Lana to get a little more playtime in before heading home for the afternoon.







We got home from the Children's Museum in time to get a little snack and hang out at home for a short while before heading over to Grandpa Ron & Dao's house for dinner. We had a great time letting the kids play together one more time before Roger and his family left the next morning. Below are some pictures of our fun together. Of course, we waited til the end of the evening again to get a picture of all the cousins together, so they look tired again! I guess the pictures just show how busy the week was and how much fun all the kids had as each evening they look more and more tired!










We are so glad Roger, Jill and Juliana came to visit last week! I hope Caleb gets to grow up close to all of his cousins, I think we're definitely off to a great start! : )