Children's Museum, Food, and Build a Bear

We are going to pretend it is February and that I posted this way back then.  I can't believe it is now April.

Sometime in February Debbie and Pam took the boys (all three of them) to the Navy Pier Children's Museum. I hope my boys realize how lucky they are to have so many people in their lives that love them and want to do things like this with them.

 Good old Chicago

 This is Navy Pier.  The Children's Museum is inside that glass building.

Gus got caught red handed.  Look at him pinch Anders.  What a punk!

John and Gus enjoyed the circus activities.

Anders was happy stacking cups.

 Of course Sophie was there.  The boys just love Sophie.

I'm sure, despite the raincoats, that Gus managed to get himself wet from head to toe.

As if a day at the museum weren't enough Debbie and Pam took them all out to eat and then to Build-a-Bear.

 Anders is such a copy cat!

 Making a wish with his dog's heart.

Gus is trying to decide if this lady is kidding or not.  I think they had to do a number of things in order to stuff their animal.  Gus doesn't usually get caught up in all of the hype.

Reading

Some days they will sit like this for hours.

I sure love those days.

Family Photos

My mother in-law started a wonderful tradition of buying all of the kids 1year photo shoots.  Since I'm thrifty I usually decide to make it a family affair.  Yes, I know it is April and Anders turned 1 in October, but life has just gotten in the way.  And, in my defense these pictures were taken WAY BACK in February.

Since I no longer live close to Jan I had to find someone else to take our pictures.  Low and behold Hans was friends with someone on Facebook who was a photographer here in Illinois.  Leann was very sweet and came to our house to take pictures.  She did an excellent job and I'm excited that soon the family photos in our house will actually include our youngest.

If you are friends with me on Facebook you've already seen a couple of pictures from this shoot.  Here is the link to the whole shoot.  Leann did a great job capturing the essence of the boys.