Today we loaded the kids up after Noah was off to school and I was back from the gym and headed to the Amelia Park Children’s Museum. ( FYI they need more signs telling you exactly where it is!). This is their new location and they have a lot more exhibits they are trying to get sponsored…but overall it was a great fun few hours!!

Declan was the oldest kid in the place by far, but that didn’t really matter since he was VERY happy to play in the kid powered area.. air guns with soft balls, a ball vacuum and a huge  sphere that dumped them all on ya after it gets full..what more can an almost 7 year old want?

The guns:

Ziah..on the floor is one of the vacums!

Taejan made some friends.. he loved it that the place was filled with kids HIS size..lol

Declan, Ziah and Eric getting a load of soft balls dumped on them.. it was great!

Taejan loved the space shuttle in that area:

It’s so nice and open, very easy to see all the kids and what they are doing!

I wish we had one of these closer to us, but even with this being an hour away I think we will be buying a membership in the spring..the kids ( and Eric) just loved it!

she’s been to Georgia and Massachusetts…come see!

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Just a friendly reminder to take the time to go and vote today!

Oops.. Noah just looked at the blog and said I forgot him for Trick or treat..well I forgot everyone actually..LOL. I found 2 other pictures I forgot to post also so here goes!

It was a beautiful night for Trick or Treating!

Also at Yankee Candle I let each kiddo pick one votive ..here’s the boys sniffing for their favorite scents..lol

and before we left for the Children’s museum a sweet moment between Declan and Taejan.

The time change has thrown the whole house outta wack..but that’s ok. I was up and at the gym for 5am and the kids were all up and moving entirely too early ( yawn think 6:15).. but we took advantage and got lots of schooling in very early!

First stop was History! We are just finishing up Mesopotamia. The kids learned about Sargon and more!

Here’s Declan at his Usborne Sticker Atlas.

Their coloring:

Taejan did some work in his new Kumon book:

Next came science! We found these great Little Lab kits at a science store when we were out of town the other day. Declan picked the Crane one so we had at it this morning..what fun and so worth the $15 we paid!! It can be completely reused( local friends if you want to borrow it let me know!) which I like the best!!

Here’s Declan putting the knowledge wheel together:

The first lesson was on lever’s:

after using the kit we found some common lever’s in the house!

Next we made a wheelbarrel!

and of course:

it was about here we lost Ziah’s interest.. so Declan and I made a pulley and his actin figure took a ride:

Our favorite build was the Crane!!

I think Taejan would have played with it all day!