Last Friday I took the girls to the BYU art museum for an arts fair. The museum has an exhibit on about the national parks, so the fair was themed around the parks. There were so many wonderful activities, but unfortunately we only had time to make bird feeders and paint animal tracks before rushing off to Lydia’s group harp lesson. I wanted to go back, but I have to be home to pump four times a day, and so that rather tethers us to the house.
But today we managed to go to Salt Lake between pumping sessions. We went to the zoo. Mary peed in line while we waited for the train. I did not know how to clean that up, so I pretended not to notice and hoped that the people behind us would think someone spilled lemonade or something. Sadly, the woman behind me tapped my shoulder and helpfully pointed out that Mary had peed in line. I pretended to be aghast and hauled the kiddos outta there and straight to the lion exhibit. We did the train (without peeing in line) an hour later.
Ever since the news about the kid who fell into the gorilla exhibit aired, the kids have internalized the consequence for not listening to Mommy. When I asked Lydia what that consequence was, she promptly responded that she would get beaten up by a gorilla. I am sort of okay with that paradigm.
Here are some pictures from days I missed blogging:
Lydia took these two pictures of Ammon. Sometimes I let them play in his (fully baby-proofed) room while I pump. Lydia loves this.
I baked a cake for a friend’s birthday. Mary put her sticky fingers all over the icing while I pumped. I came down and threw a tantrum. Abe calmly said that my friend would probably still eat the cake. If she knew where those hands had been, I was sure she wouldn’t. Abe said not to tell. I listened to him and everything turned out fine (and we all survived!).We went to Shakespeare for Kids at the library on Monday. Lydia had so much fun, and I think we will try to make this a new summer tradition.Lydia made her own bed and grabbed the camera to take a picture.I took Lydia to an art fair yesterday while the other kids napped (and a babysitter watched them at home). She had a blast (in her solemn, Lydia way of having fun.)
