A trip to Hands On

We let Lucy play hooky from school on Wednesday and took a trip up the mountain. We were going to get our taxes done and decided to make a day of it. We had told Lucy we were going to a special surprise and had planned to take the kids to the Play Lodge, one of our favorite places. However, we got there and discovered that they were closed on Wednesdays. :( We had to think fast, so we decided to get our lunch at Luella's (YUM!) and then drive down to Hendersonville and go to the Hands On Children's museum.

Charlie spent most of our time pushing either the shopping cart or the baby stroller around the whole museum. If you tried to take them away from him, he would scream!

Getting some bread for his shopping cart

Alex had fun, as you can see. He wasn't interested in the shopping carts, but he wanted to carry the giant toothbrush around from the dentist station. He took this toothbrush all over the place and wanted to brush everything except for the teeth in the dentist chair!

Shopping with Lucy!

I wish I had more pictures to show you from our day, but Michael and I spent a great deal of our time trying to keep the boys away from the paint station. It didn't matter where we were in  the building . . .they always seem to find their way back to the paints! We finally gave in and let them. Here's Lucy's creation . . .sorry it's blurry!

And here is Alex and Charlie's . . .

They also had a great time at the rice table. This was the only thing that occupied their attention for about 5 minutes at a time. I know the people were glad to see us leave though because by the end, more of the rice seemed to be on the floor than the table . .. 

We had fun and then we got to see Kevin when we took him our taxes. Hopefully we will be able to work it out to go back up the mountain over spring break so that we can get in our trip to the Play Lodge too!!