Children's Museum...etc

We went to the children's museum yesterday since it's free for us with our Bank Americard on the first weekend of the month.  Nate and I get in free and we have to pay for Braelyn (and eventually Addison).  She had lots of fun.  It is much improved from the old one...it moved to a new location, though Braelyn was extremely disappointed that it did not have a bubble area like the old one did.

The water area was definitely her favorite.  She liked just going to the bin of balls and taking them and throwing them in the water.

The other part she wanted to play in for a while was the "town".  She especially liked the grocery store...playing cashier with Daddy.

Shopping for oranges...

 "Eating" her broccoli...

 Scanning the luggage at the "airport" for bombs.  Just kidding, they don't actually say what you are scanning it for, just that you are scanning it like at the airport.

 Cooking at Jamba Juice...

 She also liked the art area, but wasn't too interested in actually doing it.  They had a special "class" doing spray watercolor that we didn't get there in time for that I think she would have liked.

 And her other favorite, the toddler area had a "train" where if you pushed one button it made a train whistle sound.  She loved that.  There was also a slide in that area that was pretty fun.

We got Braelyn a sprinkler to run through...a "Fun Sprinkler"...that was the name of it on the tag.  Braelyn likes to run through it, which is a bit of a surprise since she doesn't like to run through the grass sprinklers.  Though this is more gentle I suppose.

Nate made this chalkboard for Braelyn to play with outside.  It was his idea and he made it.  I just helped with putting on the border and hung it on the wall.

Braelyn helping to give Addison a bath.  Excuse the nudity.

And finally, Addison's fourth of July outfit.  Surprisingly, our neighbors mostly stuck to shooting things off on the fourth and not for several days before and after.  Braelyn was very scared of the fireworks, so we didn't shoot anything off.  There was a random thunder storm here this morning and Braelyn was pretty scared of the thunder as well.  Braelyn had a "pretty dress" that she wore for the fourth, but the picture of that is on Nate's phone, so I'll have to post it later.  Or you will just never see it.  One or the other.