Target the Stars Blog

We easily bridged the B and Q week over to S and I by slipping off to the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul with our friends Melissa, her son Bray and his little sister Ella.  We started our visit by bouncing up and down the stairs that make sounds . I remember these from when I was a kid and visited the Science Museum for school field trips. The kids enjoyed nearly every exhibit but the one about the body made me feel kind of sick.   They especially loved seeing their shadows during the spectrum exhibit. We loved playing in the Big Back Yard’s maze.  I ran into the building and climbed many steps up a few stories to take this picture of the kid’s in the maze where they looked so small . Our little friend Ella got soaking wet while playing with the water exhibit in the back yard. Maddie continued her second and last week of swimming camp at a super cool swim center where the topic of the week was science . The kids studied various aspe...

We ended M & W week with the Meuli family in Wisconsin and made an easy transition to our C & H week with camera -shy cousin Connor and our Collins cousins . We had fun playing with the hula hoop , going for canoe rides and the eldest cousin Isabelle created a Survivor Camp and got the kids to catch their own fish and build a tent. There were lots of creepy crawly bugs involved and she kept asking questions that scared all the adults though….” Hey , how do you cook this clam we found in the lake?” and so forth. Thank goodness they all survived. We also survived the transition from bottle to sippy cup this weekend .  At 20+ months, it was more than time to switch. Here’s a picture of the little one in a creepy counter chair Grammy let us use. She really enjoyed sitting there. It made me a little nervous though like it was suspended in air. When we returned home the cousins came over to play at our house and watched as the concrete project came to com...