Chicago

This weekend, Sarah and Lily joined me in Chicago (I was already there for a conference during the week) and we visited with Uncle Phil, Aunt Lois and cousins Alayne, Dave, Sam, and Mikey. We went to the Kohl Children's Museum and to the Field Museum and ate deep dish pizza. Lily had a great time visiting, playing, and watching "the boys".

"Picking" corn at the Field Museum

Playing drums at the music exhibit

"Elephants!"

"This is a fun house cousin Alayne!"

"The Boys!"

"Love you Aunt Lois and Uncle Phil"

Pedaling Her New Tricycle

As you know, Grandma and Grandpa got Lily a new tricycle. She is starting to get the hang of pedaling it!

"First, I have to sweep up all the leaves in my way."

"Next, I put my feel on the pedals."

"I'm ready to pedal now!"

Cherry Blossoms

Today we went downtown with our friends Eli, Benjamin, Beth, and Howie to the Natural History Museum. We went to the dinosaur exhibit, the oceans exhibit, and the butterfly exhibit. The butterfly exhibit is a self contained area where live butterflies fly around. Lily was afraid of them and we had to carry her through the exhibit. Of course, as soon as she asked to leave and we did, she wanted to go through again. Too bad you can only entered with timed tickets. We'll go again soon.

"Daddy, are you sure these butterflies won't hurt me?"

After lunch, we went down to the tidal basin to see the Cherry Blossoms. Unfortunately, Lily was so tired from zooming around the museum she fell asleep, with her sunglasses on, when we left the museum and didn't wake up until we got back to the car.

Konked out. Everyone thought she was so cute sleeping in her sunglasses.

After we got back to the car and Lily woke up, we decided to go to Cabin John park on the way home. We ended up playing there for two and a half hours!

"I LOVE this park!"