Josh and I tend to stay close to home with the kids most weekends. It seems like we've always sort of been homebodies, but since we've had the kids, now we are REALLY homebodies... If there isn't a sporting event or a family function, we just stay home. Meredith is not one to reckon with in public. She runs away and throws fits. "/ At a recent doctor's appointment with Wallace the doctor was asking me how he behaves when we take him out to eat. My answer, "We never go out to eat..." It's really not very relaxing to spend money so one of us can eat while constantly apologizing to the people in the adjoining booth for Wallace doing headstands against their seat, while the other chases Meredith around the restaurant, and then we just switch places. It tends to really stress us out. So, needless to say, it surprised me a bit when Josh suggested we actually take them somewhere today. I was only looking forward to it a little...especially after he let Anna talk him into adding a second destination to our trip... My weekdays have been stressful lately, so I really look forward to lazy weekends right now.

But after breakfast we got everyone dressed, loaded up, and headed to the local children's museum. :) Josh went there with Anna for her school field trip this past year, and he figured the littles would really like it too. He was right. It's a neat place.

As soon as you walk in (and make it past the gift shop where Meredith nearly had her first meltdown) there's a big train set!  Wallace just kept coming back to it over and over. — As soon as you walk in (and make it past the gift shop where Meredith nearly had her first meltdown) there's a big train set! Wallace just kept coming back to it over and over.

I love this.  Meredith is just not a hat girl.  Me either babe.   (On a side note...I was really struggling with my camera while we were indoors here.  There are all sorts of funny shaped things hanging from the ceiling that… — I love this. Meredith is just not a hat girl. Me either babe. (On a side note...I was really struggling with my camera while we were indoors here. There are all sorts of funny shaped things hanging from the ceiling that kept bouncing my flash all weird.)

Wallace wore his space helmet and pack for a while.

And an old school radio that Meredith bogarted and nearly got in a fight with a kid over.

I think this crank could use some WD-40 or something.  Ha. — I think this crank could use some WD-40 or something. Ha.

This painting room was hilarious.  It has signs asking people to clean up after themselves...  Yeah.  Mine had paint on the floor, on their hands, shoes, everything...  We'd get one cleaned up and then as we were cleaning the nex… — This painting room was hilarious. It has signs asking people to clean up after themselves... Yeah. Mine had paint on the floor, on their hands, shoes, everything... We'd get one cleaned up and then as we were cleaning the next the first would be back in the paint! Took a while to wrap it up in there.

This cracked me up, and as I was taking a picture Anna goes "Look!  It's like Yertle!"  Haha!  She's right!!! — This cracked me up, and as I was taking a picture Anna goes "Look! It's like Yertle!" Haha! She's right!!!

So, after the museum the plan was to go on to Landa Park (the second destination that Anna added to the day) for them to swim. But it was raining (thank goodness!). So, we took them to eat, and amazingly enough, they weren't too bad. No chasing Meredith around, and no headstands! So, we took them to Landa Park to ride the train and called it good. :) Family day in the bag. Maybe we'll start to venture out to public places with them more often. Ha...who'm I kidding. Yeah right. ;)