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Children’s Museum in Easton

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It is school vacation week and between sickness and snow, we have been pretty cooped up (not that I don’t love relaxing at home, but its becoming less relaxing, more stressful).  So yesterday we went to the Children’s Museum in Easton.

We chose to go there because we see it advertised on Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, one of Aidan favorite PBS shows.  It was terrific!  There was plenty of stuff for little ones and the game and clues for the Ruff ‘exhibit’ were awesome!  Aidan loved it- and is very good at problem solving!  It was quite busy but it is school vacation week and judging by the number of little kids, it may just be like that in the morning anyway.  we saw a very showy outside area that we will need to go back to visit.

What a fun day!

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Jumping back on the bandwagaon…

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So much goes on in this crazy house and I have to do a better job of keep up.  Seems Facebook status updates are the only way lately.  So here are some recent “favorites”

“It’s my favorite part, the swirling!”- Brendan very excited to see the toilet flushing while Aidan was showing him how to use the potty (at 5am).

Today’s story- kids in the bathroom comparing size. Seriously? It starts that young with boys?

Aidan’s teacher was working with him on letter sounds- she would show an object he would use letters to spell it. She showed him a safety pin. Teacher- “Did you know when my children were little we used these to keep their diapers on?” Aidan- “That must have hurt!”

Aidan saw a news story this morning about Groundhog Day. He asked us to explain Groundhog Day. After we did he looked at us and said, “Are you serious? People think an animal can tell when spring is? Don’t they know spring always starts in March?” Apparently my almost 5 year old is smarter than the people in Pennsylvania, but I think I already knew that.

And these are just from January and the beginning of this month.  Must.do.better.keeping.up.

boys will be boysYes they are still crazy!

Our Canadian Adventure

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Getting started on my list of things to catch up on.  One of the highlights of the summer was our adventure to Canada to see Maureen.

The plan was to fly to Buffalo then rent a car to drive to Toronto.  The flight was fine, the rental not so much.  The tire needed air almost immediately (in the pouring rain of course).  After hours of traffic, we crossed the border and had- a flat tire.

We parked in a Tim Horton’s (Dunkin Donuts).  Chris tried for a while to change the tire, it was seized.  He called CAA (AAA).  It took them over an hour to get there.  More time to fix it.  In the end the kids were in Time Hortons for almost 3 hours (Brendan in Superman pjs by this time).  We left Boston at noon.  We got to our hotel at midnight.  Great start.

The Sox game was great, even if they lost.  The kids had a fun time.  We were in the kids section with lots of kid friendly entertainment.  I love live games.

More drama ensued with the rental which could not be exchanged sue to the unavailability of another sized car.  Way too much time on the phone, time to get to the airport only to find this out, and to find out that WE would have to take the tire to be fixed!!!!!!!!

So Chris did that Sunday morning and two Canadaian Tire shops later, we had a new tire.  We went to the zoo.  Its beautiful there!  Aidan had an accident and fell off a statue and got a flat lip.  It was a bad fall, I though teeth would be lost!  We got to see Maureen’s apartment and she made us pizza!!!

Traveling home was much easier, in the end our rental was comp-ed.  The hotel was beautiful, the pool was a huge highlight and the boys saw their first Sox game.  But I don’t think Uncle Richard will ever want to travel with us again!!!!