Teddy Bear World

This past weekend, the boys and I (and Bushia), had several hours to kill between soccer games.  In an attempt to get out of the house and not burn up too much energy, we headed to Waikiki to visit Teddy Bear World.  It's basically a mini museum of teddy bears, posed in all sorts of different settings and scenes, many of which included educational summaries of the scene.  I'm not sure I read any of them, so I am just assuming they were educational. :)  We were more interested in ooo-ing and ahh-ing over the bears, and trying to deter Jonah from touching them.

 Here is the scene from Time Square with a portion of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.  :)

 He was just dying to touch something!

 The dinosaur exhibit drew the most "oooohs" from Jonah.

 I heard a lot of, "Can we take him home?!"

 And the toured wrapped up with a concert from Elvis.  It was actually really cute!  (And good music too!)

AMY - Arizona Museum for Youth

One of our field trip's this week took us to the Arizona Museum for Youth. It was our first visit and kept us plenty entertained for over 3 hours. I would like to point out that this trip had nothing to do with our theme this week. In fact, that field trip was cancelled upon arrival due to construction. Just an attempt to get out of the house and pass another day making us one day closer to having this baby. :) Here are the boys out side the museum. Another thing to point out, I had nothing to do with posing the boys for this picture. I have been known in the past (aka called out by my hubby) to pose the boys for photos, but this was totally unsolicited.

Some of our activities that day included a story time, drawing on the wall, LOTS of puzzles, and sand paintings as seen below.

We also played some dress up,
played on the giant light-bright,
and even made some large murals for Dad's birthday. They also had a large Cactus League baseball exhibit which mainly featured the Cubs as the museum is in Mesa where Cubs spring training is located. The boys played baseball on Wii sports, made baseball hats, dressed up like hot dog vendors and even built a replica of Wrigley Field.
Continuing to do our best to pass each and every day of the summer in a fun, productive manner.