A local art gallery offers a children’s
time every Saturday where kids can come in and get creative.
I’ve been meaning to go for a long time, and today we finally
made it. When we got there we were the only ones there, which
was great because we got a lot of personal attention from the
assistant. She showed us around and got the kids set up with
oil pastels and then paints. We also played with clay, colored
pencils, and stamps. Then we checked the children’s gallery
area and, of course, found some books to read. We all had a
good time.

When we got home we found Alan
mowing the leaves (we are leaf composting this fall!) and
Parrish playing in the backyard. Despite the fact that it was
chilly and they were both overtired, we spent the next few
hours outside playing. I haven’t seen the neighbors in awhile,
so that was nice. At one point Parrish asked if we could get
out the sidewalk chalks again (we haven’t done that in a long
time! He’s got a good memory) so we continued our creative
afternoon with chalks on the street. I had to bribe Lex with
warm chocolate milk to get him inside at 5:30pm. Eve was more
than ready to go! She said, “mommy. dinner. eat.” and walked
into the garage. :)

Station
master Lex giving a red light to the Eve
train.

Drawing
more tracks for the Eve train.