Last week we journeyed to the brand new Children's Museum of Phoenix with our friends.
These stretchy play things were loads of fun!
the Sophie pose
also known as Downward Dog
I'm still curious what these vehicles are called, regardless, the boys loved them (despite Charlie's fingers getting stuck!).
In contrast to this picture, most of the time Charlie spent on the rick-shaw he was the passenger. His buddy Nate pulled him all over the place. Lucky guy to have such a great buddy!
Sophie was ecstatic when Nathan asked her to ride behind him (see the smile behind that plug).
Charlie loved cooking with REAL utensils.
Gran and Papa Jeff make pizza on their grill, on Friday night we decided to give it a try on our Arizona grill...
Charlie loved working the dough.
Ella loved every part of making pizza, especially adding the black olives!
Sophie, waiting for Daddy to come in from the grill.
Sophie, what a big girl you are...almost one!
She wasn't so sure about this dough business...
...she donated hers to a very needy cause.
The finished product!
The kids were so proud. They enjoyed the process so much they forgot to eat the pizza, but not to worry, mom and dad took care of all leftovers!
I can remember going to Showbiz Pizza (now Chuck E Cheese) as a kid and playing arcade games all night to get a hand full of tickets to spend at the ticket counter. And boy was it exciting...all that work...and then picking out that fantastic prize.
Last week Ella hit the jack-pot at the arcade (at the bowling alley). The game she was playing decided to spit out ALL of it's tickets. This took some time and the machine was busy during this time. The funny part was that the kids seemed more upset that the game was unavailable than the fact that they now had enough tickets to get anything they wanted out of the prize machine.
Really, they were pretty uninterested in picking prizes out of this newfangled machine that sucks up your tickets, counts them, and delivers the prize of your choice. I am truly proud that our children would rather play the game than pick the prize. But, really I've never been a high-roller at the arcade, this was such a once in a lifetime experience. And now, I was able to pick prizes out for everyone...definitly more exciting for mom!
Tonight we spent the evening at the Desert Botanical Garden.
The kids were very anxious for the sun to set so that they could begin the flashlight tour!
This summer we borrowed a book from the library called, I Need a Lunch Box. It quickly became one of Charlie's favorites.
The story is about a little brother with an older sister who is just about to start school. The parents take the sister out to buy her school supplies. The brother quickly falls in love with lunch boxes and wants one of his own. He dreams about lunch boxes and all that he could put inside them.
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On the sister's first day of school, the parents give the little brother his own lunch box!
Of course, Charlie has said all summer, "I NEED a lunch box!"
Today, Ella gave Charlie his very own Spider-Man lunch box! She and I found it weeks ago and have been saving it for just this day...she was SO excited to give it to him.
He LOVES his lunch box. It has been carried around non-stop since. Mostly filled with various snacks and trains.
With his backpack on he's ready to spend the rest of the day with his buddy Nate!
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