July 31, 2012

My sister-in-law Juli came to visit us while her husband (my brother) is visiting multiple museums along the east coast. We are super excited to have them here and can't wait to do lots of fun things with them! Thanks to the summer reading program we had free children's admission to Thanksgiving Point's Museum of Ancient Life (dinosaur museum). 

Here is cousin Clark all ready to go!

 Brylee is super excited!

Tucker was ready too :) (I'm not sure where Hunter is hiding because he does not usually like to miss photo opportunities) 

 I discovered that it is impossible to get Tucker and Hunter to both look at the camera at the same time! I took lots of this same picture trying to get them to both look at me but as soon as I would push the button one of them would look at something else. The museum was just too cool :)

 They had this water sand table for the children to play in. Thankfully they also provided aprons so our kids clothes did not get covered in sand and water. The purpose of the table is to bury a dinosaur and then direct the water over it to erode it out  or have the water rush over the dinosaur and slowly cover it with sand. Of course none of the children attempted to do this but they still had lots of fun burying and finding the dinosaurs.

 Brylee only played for a little while before deciding that she was hungry so we took a snack break while the boys played :)

Gunnar slept the entire time!! I fed him before we left and then he slept the whole time and didn't eat until we got back home!! I was amazed, now if I could get him to go that long without eating at night consistently...

 Here is Bryant pretending to be scared of the big dinosaurs : P

 This is a giant underwater turtle basically. It reminded of some of the creatures in the cartoon movie Atlantis that came out forever ago!

Oh no! The giant shark is going to eat our whole family!!!

Here is Hunter holding Gunnar for the first time!!

 He is such a proud older brother!!

 We have discovered that Gunnar sleeps best when his face is partially covered. This gets him to sleep for hours on end!

Gunnar's first time in the bouncer, while Bryant, Juli and I played a game at the table after everyone else was in bed

While being with us, Clark is learning what it is like to have crazy cousins surround you constantly. He figured out how to dance to the music from the piano. Tucker, Hunter, and Brylee all dance by spinning in circles and so, after watching for awhile, Clark started dancing by spinning in circles too. 

Clark was more than happy to sit back and watch as Tucker, Hunter, and Brylee did "Ring around the Rosies." Thankfully, Brylee is used to older brothers and does not freak out when she is knocked down or pulled down by them.