Last drops of fun!

Dan and the 2 older children come home in about 3 hours!  Yay!  I have spent this week trying to squeeze the last drops of fun with just the 2 little ones.  I realized I'm just too pregnant to really do much.  I know I was a lot more active with Delaney right up till I delivered, so I do not know why I am so physically unable to do anything.  I'm going to blame it on being 35.  If doctors are convinced that turning 35 makes you suddenly of "advanced maternal age"  they must be right. Ha!  Still, its the only excuse I've got, so I'm sticking to it.

I took Callie and Delaney to Mount Vernon yesterday.  Callie asked for a Mommy-Daughter Date and that's what she picked to do.  I got them out there by 9am to try to take advantage of the morning weather.  It didn't help.  I was still sweat-soaked by the time we got to the museum.  Ug.  I hate sweating, and its all I do these days.

Callie was delighted to see the sheep.  We heard that there were piglets, but I was so NOT going to take the bus to the other side of Mount Vernon so I could hoof it around the animal area and sweat even more.  I said she'd have to wait for Daddy to take her and I hustled her to the air conditioned museum area.

The girls love the hands-on museum for kids.  For some reason, Delaney was entranced by this table for tea.  She spent most of her time right here.  Callie helped her get a full setting of stuffed animals and Delaney proceeded to feed them all "tea".  It was very cute.  Delaney was so into it!  Callie flitted from one thing to the next like a butterfly.

Callie and I put his puzzle together and she was so proud of herself.  She also played with the puppets, the baby dolls, the doll house and got Delaney her own little puzzle to work on.

Daddy has set the tradition.  Whenever he takes the girls on a Daddy- Daughter Date to Mount Vernon, he always buys them ice cream at the food court.  $7 later, I had happy campers.  Disgusting prices, and at 11am it meant they weren't hungry for lunch when we got home.  But they had a good time and it got us out of the house.  I took a 2 hour nap with Delaney in the afternoon.

And now an awkward change of topic:

Here in our ward, we do Visiting Teaching Groups.  They put us all in groups of 4 and we're suppose to get together at least once a month in any way we want.  My fabulous friend and visiting teaching group companion Sherrie thought it would be fun to go swimming, since our group all has small children.  So this morning, I took the girls to the pool here for the first time.  They had a ball!  The pool has a zero depth entry and a huge kiddie area, so they were in heaven. Callie was such a hoot by the end- she'd put her head in the water and crawl up the ramp!  Delaney would start on her belly at the top, ad slide into the water.  It was so worth taking them!  Plus its always more fun to have friends to chat with, and I had fun too.

The pool had noodles you could use and I think between all the kids we brought, we ended up carting 10 of the darn things out of the water when we were done.  Callie thought it was great though.

Delaney liked to play on the ramp rail, but the lifeguards didn't like it.  It was hard to keep her off it.  Once she finished crying about it she did have a great time walking up and down the pool and waving her arms, telling me,  "I swimming!".

My cutie Callie!  We did take the kids to the 4 foot area.  Delaney definitely prefers to be able to stand up herself, but Callie liked it.  She even got brave enough to actually jump into the water.... as long as I was holding one hand.

An hour after we got home, and well before her usual nap-time, here was Delaney.  She had so much fun at the pool and completely wore herself out!  Yay!