Today we met Nikki, Christian and Collin at The Children's Museum in Atlanta- this month there was a Bob the Builder exhibit. Ava left the museum saying "Yes, we can!" in Bob fashion. For a little while I wondered why Ava has never watched Bob the Builder before, and then I learned what his catch phrase was and I realized that maybe the Republican in me subconsciously never turned him on!
For those who have never been to the Children's Museum, it is an amazing place that has a stage and dress up clothes for dancing, a shadow box, a life size grocery store with a huge banana slide, a farm with a huge tractor, a water table with a waterfall, a tree house to climb and slide, a big table with moon sand and all sorts of other fun things for the kids to play with. Ava is still on the younger side to enjoy all of the exhibits, but that just means we'll get many more years of fun out of our visits! I've been told that a Curious George exhibit is coming soon and we will definitely make it a point to go and see it.
It was great to spend time with Nikki and the boys- Christian was a ball of energy, he was SO excited to see Bob the Builder and Collin has gotten so big! My apologies for all of the pics below, but I had a hard time choosing between them all.
Ava poking her head over to say hi!
Being silly
Playing at the sand table with Daddy- moon sand is the best, it wipes off so easily! We didn't take any sand home with us at all...
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Christian and Nikki building really important things
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Christian and Ava riding the tractor- I love the expression on Christian's face
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Ava loved playing in this kitchen- she made sure all of the fruits and vegetables were thoroughly washed and then here she is putting them all into the dryer!
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Jason has always wanted to teach Ava how to fish- I'm not sure this is what he had in mind...
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This is my favorite picture from the trip- Jason was sharing all of his engineering knowledge with Ava on how to fix the sink and put all of the pipes together- doesn't she look like she is just soaking it all in??
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Ava loved going down this slide- over and over and over again!
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I only got this quick picture of sweet Collin- he slept almost the whole time we were there