Category: Home Life

The Science and History Museum sent an email a couple of weeks before Mother’s Day that they were going to have a Sci Fi day that weekend. As the day drew closer they announced that some people from the 501st group were going to be there. At that point I knew we had to surprise Nadia after the walk for life by going to the museum. I packed up her Jedi costume in secret along with her Obi Wan lightsaber. Even though the 501st dress up as villains from the Star Wars universe, I knew she would L-O-V-E it. The people in costume were awesome and great with the kids! I will let the photos speak for themselves.

The bounty hunter on the left is a young girl and the bounty hunter on the right is her mom. SO cute!

People were telling us over and over how cute Nadia was and some of the employees asked us if they could take her photo. There was a teenage girl there with her mom and brother and she also asked for a photo. Her brother got in the photo and then she said, “Could I please have one with just me and her? She’s so cool.” We were also given an invite for Nadia to join a little kids galactic club. Nadia was hyper and talking about it for HOURS afterwards.

After nap time for Amelie we returned to the museum to see the Omni IMAX movie “Born to be Wild”. The girls loved it and played that they were mommy orangutans for days afterwards. It was a lovely day from start to finish.

This Mother’s Day weekend kicked off with our tradition of going to PF Changs on Friday. We had a wonderful meal and lots of fun.

Amelie was having SO.MUCH.FUN. moving my hand to “feed” her rice. She thought it was hilarious that she was “making” me feed her.

Once dinner was over we were going to walk around downtown, but it was raining unbelievably hard. So we loaded back up in the car and headed back to our side of town for shakes and blasts at Sonic. Then the next morning we took part in the Walk for Life which I already blogged about.

Here we are after church on Sunday.

Love my girls!

After nap time we headed over to visit with Mike’s mom and take her some new 8×10’s of the girls. It was a really nice weekend and I have two more posts coming about our further adventures on Saturday and Sunday.

Music class ended for the semester before museum school this year. So this week we dropped Nadia off and Amelie asked her daily question, “Ride train? Choo choo?” I was expecting it so I said, “Do you want to go RIGHT NOW?” She said, “Yes! Ride train.” Then all the way up the road to the mini train she was saying, “Fun! Ride Choo Choo! Fun! Ride Choo Choo!” Then she would sort of laugh. Once we got to the depot she started asking for popcorn and “Train go faster? Now?” We got our tickets and I let her pick the seat.

“Go now? Faster now?”

Happy to have her popcorn now. Amelie must have said, “Fun!” about 50 times on the ride. We also looked for birds, squirrels and turtles. Every time the conductor made the train whistle she would laugh and smile.

After the train ride, we had a little more time so I swung by the Botanical Gardens to show Amelie this little frog statue. She said, “Hi frog!” I snapped a couple of photos and then she started to cry saying, “Frog, fall in.” It was weird and irrational, but also a little sad, so we left to go and pick up Nadia. Amelie promptly fell asleep on the way home.