We had a busy, busy weekend. My parents
came up to babysit so Alan and I could go to a friends wedding.
The wedding was an hour away and Alan and I got a hotel room
and turned it into a mini-vacation. It was a lot of fun! The
wedding was held at a B&B.; They had the ceremony in a
field at the top of a hill and the dinner reception in a
restored barn. The whole thing was beautiful. I have lots of
pictures that I’ll post soon.

Here we are before the reception. Aren’t we pretty?
:)

And here we are well into the
reception.

We
got back at naptime on Sunday and, of course, the kids wanted
nothing to do with napping. After trying for awhile I gave up
and took them to the science museum instead. They have a great
outdoor water park that is always a hit. This is the first time
we’ve been there since the weather has been nice. They LOVED
it! It’s fun to see Lex year after year playing with the same
exhibits. I was thinking about finding a few old pics of him in
past years, wearing the same hat and playing with the same
exhibits. They had fun, came home and ate a huge dinner of
yogurt, zone bars, bagels, etc., had a quick bath, then went to
bed in tears of exhaustion. Asleep by 6:30pm :) Then I went out
to meet some friends for drinks! Whewh! We are all looking
forward to a recovery Monday!

I also have a ton
of photos from the museum. The sunny day and bright colors
makes for good photography. I’ll try to get them posted on the
datdec site. We also saw the train go by, twice, and they were
pretty excited. We’re going to have to take a ride soon.

What impresses me most about Lex’s reading is that
he just reads anything and everything. I sometimes forget that
this is unusual for a 4yr old, but am often reminded in public.
Today a man held the door for us a the museum and Lex stopped
to read a sign. I was trying to hurry Lex along since this guy
was holding the door, but the man was just fascinated watching
him read. He finished the sign and came right over to me, and
the man just was amazed and asked me about his reading skills
and pointed Lex out to his wife (Lex had already run over to
another exhibit by this point). Here he is reading about the
stone xylephone exhibit. He is such an impressive
boy!