Total Coincidence

This morning, Ben and I were getting around, packing up the truck, and getting the kids ready to drive up to St. Joe, Michigan for a trip to the Curious Kids Museum and the beach.

As we're loading things up, I get a call from my sister. As it turns out, she was calling because they were planning a family trip up to St. Joe themselves and wanted to see if by chance we'd be interested in coming along. So, we met them at the museum and made a day of it. The kids love the Curious Kids Museum, but enjoyed it even more today since they got to spend some quality time with the cousins.

Fun trip. Pictures below. I'm too tired to write anything else.

Sophie, Travis, Anastasia, Noah, Xanthi, Anesti

What do you know??? I actually got a fairly decent picture of all 6 kids, for the most part all looking at the camera (or at least in that general direction), no hair-pulling, no screaming, no bunny ears. I'm still a little in shock.

Twin news anchors. Literally.

Xanthi at weather and Anastasia handling sports.

Travis watching over things in the control room.


DJ X

Sophie The Collector

If you know Sophie at all, you know she's not happy unless her arms are full. Mostly, she gathers stuffed animals -- but she doesn't limit herself. She'll collect any darn thing she can find. Case in point......


Little toy screws from the construction zone

Livestock from the farm playroom

"Dinosaur food" from the dino room

And of course, stuffed jungle animals from the rainforest

St Joe FD, Fire chief Travis

Driving to the scene, with some stowaways

Feeding the dinosaurs

At the 'practice 911' desk -- Uncle Tom freaks Noah out a little bit.

Sophie in her natural habitat..... water table

One of the biggest hits of the museum.... the giant bubble:

Anastasia in a bubble

Noah pops the bubble!

Bubble Boy Noah

Anesti

Travis

Even Sophie got in on the action. And Elmo.

Sophie cuddling with a giant teddy.

Goofy mirrors

More water table fun

My monkey nieces

Sophie wants to be like the big girls!

Sadly, this picture didn't turn out too well. The kids loved the pin wall. (Okay, the adults kind of did too.)

Anastasia, Xanthia, Noah, Travis, Anesti, and that's Sophie way up at the top.

To the Beach!!!

Chillaxin

Sophie's idea of fun... getting sand anywhere and everywhere.

Ha! Travis was excited!

Water is fun!

You'll note Sophie is carrying her favorite stuffed animal, Rascal the raccoon, with her into the lake. She insisted on taking him with her everywhere.

Rascal had a tough day.

Sophie got kind of tuckered out at the end of the long day. Didn't we all.

And that's all, folks.