Ahhh...living the teacher's dream! Home for a full week of spring break (and then counting down the 41 days left of school until summer vacation)! Here's what we were up to for the week!
As par for the course, each morning, Carter was the first one awake, heard Amelia when she stood up (and tossed her blankie out of her crib...I swear, she'll be our only child who attempts to abandon ship and jump out of her crib) and blabbed "mamamama", and got her out of her crib. (Soon, she'll learn to change those "mamamama's" to "cart-cart-cart's"!) I woke to find them snuggling together and watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Little Einsteins. Isn't Carter the best??!!
On Monday, we played with the Dvoraceks! Addi is only 6 weeks younger than Amelia (and they are the best of girlfriends...they go to daycare together), and Zach is almost 4. Carter and Zach are great friends too, as Carter was at daycare with him from the time he was a baby until this year when he was off to kindergarten. We played at Edinborough Park for the morning, headed back to our house for lunch, and put the babies down for a nap. Yeah for the 3 hours they slept, the boys played wonderfully together, and Pam and I talked (and talked and talked)!
On Tuesday, Carter had a friend over all day for a playdate. David, who Carter has known since their days at Lynn's daycare when they were both 1 and who is in my class at school this year, and Carter played and had so much fun. Here they are playing "Indiana Jones" at the nearby playground. They have such an amazing imagination, and Carter had so much fun with him!
We were off to the Children's Museum on Wednesday! What more fun could you have than painting your own face with the paint sticks! Carter also really loves to play in the area of the museum that is a restaurant, grocery store, and music studio.
Of course, Amelia's favorite locale was the water area! Needless to say, she was sopping wet after her 30 minutes here! Thank goodness for the super high powered dryers that are located by the exit! Although it nearly blew her away, she did leave semi-dry! And, I'm sure she managed to drink half of the water in the tank. Hopefully it was heavily chlorinated...or she's now full of little kid hand germs!
You can't go to the Children's Museum without stopping next door at Candyland. Boy, was someone thinking when they located a kid's museum next to a candy shop! Candyland makes their own candy...for those of you from the Iron Range, it's just like Canelakes - sans the italian sodas. Carter chose gummy spiders and sweet tart Lego brick candies for himself and chocolate dipped Peeps for Mommy and Daddy. YUM! Those were the best! Sorry, Rea...maybe next time for you!
Just like riding a bike...we were nervous that Carter would have difficulty riding his new bike. It has been a long Minnesota winter since the last time and he just learned to ride without training wheels at the end of the summer last year. But, he was off and running! No problem!
Not even 16 months and already driving! Amelia loved her new coupe car! I loved that the handle to push it is at the very top of the car so that I didn't have to bend over and hunch the entire trip!
Spring break just couldn't be complete without a trip to Chuck E. Cheese on Thursday! Carter is an absolute rock star at skee ball. He struck 10,000 many times! It's funny...I always remember loving skee ball too when I was a kid! My dad and I played it everywhere that I saw one!
Amelia enjoyed her first run at the rides! She actually sat still and held right on!
Jackpot! Although not the millions in the Powerball, Carter did strike it rich with 90+ tickets when he hit the jackpot on this game!
You have no idea how many tries this picture took...and Amelia still isn't looking at the camera! She was much to interested in the flashing buttons on the dash of this car ride or at licking (yup...I said licking...gross) Chuck E.! After literally 20 shots, Carter said "Mom, this will just have to do."
As par for the course, each morning, Carter was the first one awake, heard Amelia when she stood up (and tossed her blankie out of her crib...I swear, she'll be our only child who attempts to abandon ship and jump out of her crib) and blabbed "mamamama", and got her out of her crib. (Soon, she'll learn to change those "mamamama's" to "cart-cart-cart's"!) I woke to find them snuggling together and watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Little Einsteins. Isn't Carter the best??!! 
On Monday, we played with the Dvoraceks! Addi is only 6 weeks younger than Amelia (and they are the best of girlfriends...they go to daycare together), and Zach is almost 4. Carter and Zach are great friends too, as Carter was at daycare with him from the time he was a baby until this year when he was off to kindergarten. We played at Edinborough Park for the morning, headed back to our house for lunch, and put the babies down for a nap. Yeah for the 3 hours they slept, the boys played wonderfully together, and Pam and I talked (and talked and talked)!
On Tuesday, Carter had a friend over all day for a playdate. David, who Carter has known since their days at Lynn's daycare when they were both 1 and who is in my class at school this year, and Carter played and had so much fun. Here they are playing "Indiana Jones" at the nearby playground. They have such an amazing imagination, and Carter had so much fun with him!
We were off to the Children's Museum on Wednesday! What more fun could you have than painting your own face with the paint sticks! Carter also really loves to play in the area of the museum that is a restaurant, grocery store, and music studio.
Of course, Amelia's favorite locale was the water area! Needless to say, she was sopping wet after her 30 minutes here! Thank goodness for the super high powered dryers that are located by the exit! Although it nearly blew her away, she did leave semi-dry! And, I'm sure she managed to drink half of the water in the tank. Hopefully it was heavily chlorinated...or she's now full of little kid hand germs! 
You can't go to the Children's Museum without stopping next door at Candyland. Boy, was someone thinking when they located a kid's museum next to a candy shop! Candyland makes their own candy...for those of you from the Iron Range, it's just like Canelakes - sans the italian sodas. Carter chose gummy spiders and sweet tart Lego brick candies for himself and chocolate dipped Peeps for Mommy and Daddy. YUM! Those were the best! Sorry, Rea...maybe next time for you!
Just like riding a bike...we were nervous that Carter would have difficulty riding his new bike. It has been a long Minnesota winter since the last time and he just learned to ride without training wheels at the end of the summer last year. But, he was off and running! No problem!
Not even 16 months and already driving! Amelia loved her new coupe car! I loved that the handle to push it is at the very top of the car so that I didn't have to bend over and hunch the entire trip!
Spring break just couldn't be complete without a trip to Chuck E. Cheese on Thursday! Carter is an absolute rock star at skee ball. He struck 10,000 many times! It's funny...I always remember loving skee ball too when I was a kid! My dad and I played it everywhere that I saw one!
Amelia enjoyed her first run at the rides! She actually sat still and held right on!
Jackpot! Although not the millions in the Powerball, Carter did strike it rich with 90+ tickets when he hit the jackpot on this game!
You have no idea how many tries this picture took...and Amelia still isn't looking at the camera! She was much to interested in the flashing buttons on the dash of this car ride or at licking (yup...I said licking...gross) Chuck E.! After literally 20 shots, Carter said "Mom, this will just have to do."
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