Museums and Music

This week, we actually had to work school around all of our fun.  We began the week meeting up with friends from Awana at Monkey Joe's - an indoor bounce house place.  Caroline and her best friend, Hannah, were running around, holding hands, and going down the slides together.  They were pretty cute.  The boys had a lot of fun with her older brother, too.  They bounced, they climbed, they ran, and they left drenched in sweat.


The next day we hung out with some CC friends at the local Children's Museum.  Our boys had always enjoyed playing with the Lyons' boys at CC.  I think part of the appeal was that our kids were older, so they felt like they were taking care of the younger kids, sort of babysitting them.  That was at CC, but at the museum, they just played really well together.  We ended up staying well into the afternoon without a lunch break.  So, by the time we got in our car, our kids were tired and hungry.  I had packed sandwiches to stave off the hunger.  Caroline wasn't too happy with what I packed her and kept whining and crying, "I want pretzels."  I told her no, she needed a fruit or vegetable because all she'd had that day were carbs (par for the course for her), so she started whining, "I want broccoli."  And I think we can accommodate that.  

And speaking of starving, we've been reading a lot about the Jamestown settlement lately.  We've been reading a historical fiction book about a girl who came to Jamestown in 1609 (two years after its' establishment).  The boys have really liked it, so we got Book 2 from the library and it was subtitled, "The Starving Time."  Upon reading the book's cover, Josiah said, "Remember that day when I didn't eat breakfast? I was starving."  Caroline followed it up with, "Remember when we didn't have any more chips?"  Yeah...  The kids of Jamestown were like, "Remember when we didn't have any food so we had to eat broth and worms and chew on pine roots?"  So, our kids have no idea what it feels like to truly be starving, which is a blessing, and yet at the same time it is good for them to hear what people went through as our country began.

Josiah and I took a trip into Houston this week as well.  We went to the Houston Symphony with our CC group.  It was an "older elementary" concert, so the littles were not allowed to be a part of it.  Josiah and I made it into the city just fine, found the concert hall, and then set out to find a parking spot. We found a parking garage, but once down in its depths, it felt like this parking garage covered blocks and blocks.  We went from a blue section, to green, to yellow, each time going deeper underground.  We finally parked and I made many notes so that we would be able to find our car again.  The concert was great.  Josiah sketched as he listened to the music.  The conductor was very funny and made it very enjoyable for the kids.  They finished it off with the William Tell Overture which garnered everyone's attention.  It was fun.  The best part was we found our car again and made it home.


We are down to four more days of school for the year.  The end is near!