Late Summer Fun

Our summer holiday started out fairly structured and is wrapping up with about a month of relatively unplanned time. No camps, no vacations, relatively few appointments, just hanging out. Being a man with much on his mind, I asked FFM what he'd like to do with his time.

"Play."

So we did. Then he gave it a little more thought and he decided he wanted to go to: the aquarium, the water park, the children's museum, the pool, the library, the museum, the botanic gardens, the zoo, the movies, another museum, and,and,and,and. Talk about a summer bucket list!  

Bucket 'o cotton candy at the baseball game with Emma

firefighting at the Children's Museum

Construction zone using recycled materials

Finished product! 

One of our favorite stops was the recycled materials construction zone at the Children's Museum.  Plans were available for several projects and we built a little truck.  The work stations were all well equipped, but when we arrived FFM wandered around passing by the first couple of empty stations.  When I quizzed him about why he told me he had to find a station with safety glasses!

After our day at the Children's Museum we went for a little walk on the nice path by the musuem.  Lo and behold Blue Bell ice cream was running a promotion that day and was giving away free ice cream.  What a deal!

One of everything please!

YUM!

But wait, there's more!  Emma's Mom volunteered to take the kiddos to the zoo for the day.  

Planning their route at the zoo

Riding the carousel.
Emma's very favorite animal is a tiger.

 We've also made it to the library, Museum of Nature and Science, and the aquarium so the bucket list is coming along nicely.  FFM and Travis have a date to go to the waterpark this weekend and as far as F's concerned he'll be done after that.  Phew!