I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas season! We had a relatively quiet Christmas morning (if you discount the rather calamitous, gift-drunk children...), and since then, we've taken advantage of Edward's time off work to visit a few museums, play hide and seek in the dark with new flashlights, play new board games, tinker with new building toys, sleep in (!!! okay, only until 7:00, but that's huge in our house) and eat a certain amount of chocolate.
We even have photographic proof of most of the above:
Christmas
Christmas morning. Santa was VERY good to us. Colin didn't want to stay in his pjs for the morning, but he certainly was keen on the gift part. I think Keith was about to explode.
I'm probably saying something totally futile, like "can we try to keep our gifts in our own piles so we know who got what?" (crucial with lots of littles), or "slow down, this isn't a race!". I'm no fun at all.
Malcolm playing with his car ramp from Uncle Sepp (who is also one of his Godfathers)
Concentrating....
What's incredible about this series of pictures is that NO ONE else is trying to usurp Malcolm's gift at that exact moment in time. I'm sure there is a Duckling Vulture lurking just out of the frame. Poor little guy spends most of his time running after his vanishing toys crying "Myyyy... MYYYYY!". Sigh. He will eventually learn, as we have, that it's hard to keep three busy bodies and six grabby hands at bay.
Children's Museum - Museum of History
We, along with what appeared to be a million other people, had the brilliant idea to visit the Children's Museum this past Tuesday. Edward and I have visited the Museum of History a few times, but I have not set foot in it's Children's Museum since I volunteered there (I think from ages 12-16?). It's changed a lot, including a massive increase in floor and exhibit space. Edward thought the whole thing was a little overwhelming... there's so much to see and do, you could probably go at least 5 times before you see it all. The kids enjoyed it, but their favourite part was the temporary Bob the Builder exhibit.
The best bus ever! A heavily decorated bus from Pakistan
My chauffeur. Honestly, I think he's probably already a better driver than many - he's got at least one hand on the wheel, his eye on the road, and nary an electronic device to be seen!
On a motorbike taxi from Thailand
A studious moment playing chess in a souk in Morocco
Oooo... having a plumber (or two) in the family would be awesome... Keith and Colin are puzzling together the pipes
Aviation Museum
Unlike the Children's Museum, we are members of the Aviation Museum, so we've been a few times already. Even though it is nowhere near as flashy as the former, and the plaque-and-plane display format is way over their heads (literally, too), they always have a fantastic time here. There are plenty of hands on activities for the pre-literate... and energetic. Major plusses: it is a huge open space, and it is usually pretty quiet.
Yikes. A runway SNAFU.
Sittin' in a fighter jet, pushin' buttons. What did you do today?
Keith and his co-pilot.
A crowded Cessna cockpit
They could have spent half an hour in here
Pseudo helicopter flight deck. Evelyn did get her turn, too. However, she much preferred contriving and alerting her brothers to various alarming scenarios that required rescue.
We also returned to a perennial favourite, the Experimental Farm (aka the Museum of Agriculture). I guess we must have forgotten to pack the camera, which was a shame, because among other photo-worthy moments, Malcolm got a gentle calf lick on the cheek.
I'm not sure who was more smitten....
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