Colby driving the plane
He loved carrying the big blocks around
Boarding the train with Maggie
Oh he could have stayed at the train table for hours!
Checking out the train with paw-paw
He got so excited about the farm puzzle like he has at home!
More trains!
Sitting on the boat catching some seafood!
The cousins playing in the boat!
Since Austin was off today we decided we would take a random trip to the Gulf Coast. Originally the plan was to go to the outlet malls then go eat at Olive Garden. We haven't been to the coast since maybe a few months after Katrina. I figured it would be a nice time to go and just get out of the house.
Our plans changed yesterday when Austin thought to invite his parents. We knew they normally keep the girls (Shelbi and Maggie) on Mondays. So we asked if they would want to meet us there with them. Well the more we thought about shopping with 3 kids the less we liked that idea. I mean it would have been doable with just Colby. We could have let him play at the play area and he would ride in the stroller also for most of it. But since we were now going to have a 1 1/2 year old, a 3 1/2 year old and a 6 year old present our plans quickly changed. I began researching child friendly things to do there. I discovered a Children's Museum there. Since Colby loves the one so much here I figured that would be something that would work for all 3 of them. So we drove up today and met his parents and nieces there. The ride up was nice Colby did really well. When we got to the museum he was very excited. When you first walked in there was a train and a train table to play with. He was in heaven! He ran up to those and had a blast. He then discovered the boat section and enjoyed catching crabs and shrimp in his net. After this point we kinda split off from the girls. They were anxious to go do other things and Colby was stuck there. We finally had to pry him away to bring him to the toddler area. I think he would have liked the toddler area better if we had brought him there first. But compared to the other stuff I guess it seemed "childish" to him. We played in there for about 20 min but in my opinion our toddler area is more fun. It really didn't have anything for them to climb on which is his favorite thing to do! So we scooped him up and went upstairs. His next discovery was the plane section. Again he quickly jumped right in and started controlling the plane. He is such a boy! They had a grocery store but again it wasn't as nice as ours. It was small and didn't even have grocery carts so that didn't hold his attention at all. He was ready to go back downstairs to the boats and trains! He didn't get to play much with his cousins there which I was a little dissapointed but I think they went upstairs to do art and other stuff which were too old for him!
After the museum we went to a little cafe for lunch. Colby did really good there. Shelbi sat next to him and I think they were both taken with each other. Shelbi colored and played with him and Colby just grinned and watched her. He was also giving both her and Maggie kisses by the end of lunch! So sweet! I hate they don't get to play more often! We are trying to convince them to let Shelbi come stay with us this weekend! I think it would be fun to have a little girl in the house! So we'll see! It will also give me a taste of having 2 children haha!
After lunch we headed home it was hot and Colby was in need of a nap. We were hoping he would nap the whole way back. He sure enough fell asleep right after we got on the highway but woke up only about less then halfway home. The rest of the trip he was miserable...he was soo tired. But I think he didn't want to sleep in the car and he wanted his blankie so he cried and fussed the whole way which is very unlike him! Once we got home we put his little booty in the bed! We all rested and took naps! Getting out like that in the summer just wears me out! After relaxing we hung out outside some but it was just so steamy and muggy it wasn't much fun! We ate dinner lasagna and salad which was quite yummy! We had it delievered from Speciality! I love that!
After dinner we took my car to get it gassed up for the week and washed. This was Colby's first carwash experience. I figured he would really love it or really hate it! He actually was in between. He didn't freak out but you could tell he was a little concerned! Afterwards we came home and let him play outside some more. Again it was so hot so Austin and I wanted to come in but Colby was having the best time so we hated to mess him up. After we came in though he went to bed early...he needed it after the last 2 days!
Tomorrow we are going to the zoo so we should have more fun stuff to report then!
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