Vacation

For the past two weeks, Ben has been on vacation. We have loved having him home, but as all good things come to an end, he had to go back to work today. We were sad to have a quiet house again but luckily had the Halloween festivities to keep us occupied a bit. While Ben was home, we mostly just spent time together there. We did go to some fun places with Shelby though.


We first took her to the Treehouse Museum. If you have kids and have never been, it's amazing and worth the drive. It's two levels of museum with a huge treehouse in the middle. They have story time, arts and crafts and the whole lower floor is devoted to dramatic play. You can see some of the things Shelby got to dress up as in the pictures, but she didn't even get to half of the dramatic play things. We loved it!

We also got to go to the Dinosaur Park. This was also amazing to go to and really kept Shelby's interest. There were tons of dinosaurs in the outside park to look at as well as an indoor museum with cool artifacts. This is a fun visit as well.


I have to explain the bottom right picture of Shelby. If you take a closer look at it you'll see she has two purple rocks in her ears. We had found some rocks on the ground and picked them up to show Shelby. I turned around and the next time I looked at her she had them in her ears. I don't know what gave her the idea, but I thought it was pretty funny.

By the end of it all, Shelby was just plain tuckered. The blanket went over the head and she was out.