This bench was between a display about Japan and one about Africa. All of the different country areas had costumes, books, toys and other objects.
Here's Joey coming out of the tree. The tree had a stair case inside of it which connected the two floors of the museum.
We had to take pictures in China! Doesn't Kate look so cute? And Ken too!
The music room was great. There were tons of hand drums, mallet instruments and other auxiliary percussion stuff. Marcus had fun playing cow bell.
Kate was thrilled to sit in the oval office with President Obama. Having watched his inauguration when she was 12 days old made meeting him just that much more special. Or at least his cardboard likeness.
Marcus and I had fun building houses. One day Kate will learn other uses for toys, besides chewing.
Just before this picture Seth had a hyper explosion! He ran from drum to drum to drum so fast that I couldn't get a picture.
Isaac had fun too. I wish I had a better picture of the whole drum. Isaac could have easily fit inside of it. We probably could have put all of the cousins inside of it!
I asked Thomas if I could take his picture in the boat. He said yes but I had to wait for him to put on a costume.
Kate and Anna are so cute together. They already have such an affinity for each other. They babble to each other with "baby" thrown in by Anna every few words.
The museum had things for kids of all ages - even babies!
Suzanne and the ladies are practicing for when they will be firefighters?
Seth might have a career ahead of him as a cowboy.
Perhaps Marcus will join him.
The grandparents and Wendy and Ray had already left but we had a group shot taken by one of the attendants. In this photo are Bacons (Jon and his boys and Andrew), McCartneys, and Bateses (Matthew and Suzanne and their kids, and Matthew's brother Andrew his wife Amy and their kids). Can you say cousins!
After playing hard we all went to Farr's for ice cream. Joey and Thomas were waiting patiently for their baseball hat sundaes.
After dinner it was time to run around outside again. Beside our unit in Wolf Creek was the golf course, the ninth hole I think. It provided some fun green space to play in.
Marcus and Joey played so nicely together.
Kate loves her cousins. The way she watches them, you just know she's so excited to play with them.
Can you figure out who is who? Double click on the photo to see the action. They're actually playing football-frisbee on a golf course of course.
Is anything better than hanging out with your cousin in the grass?
