Science Museum and Sesame Street Live

With the beginning of the school year approaching, I wanted to take the kids out in the city, so I decided to take them to the Science Museum and to Sesame Street Live.  On Thursday, we met Christian's friend from CPS Jason LaPlante, his brother Ryan and his mom Kathleen at the Science Museum.  The kids liked exploring the Sesame Street exhibit about the body and then we went upstairs to play in the tree house and water station.

On Saturday, Mark and I took the kids to see Sesame Street Live at the Jubilee Auditorium.  The production was Elmo's Ready for Action.  It was a nice experience for the kids to see live theatre, but I think the story line was a bit mixed up and a bit lame.  I was proud of our kids being OK with forgoing a balloon, cotton candy and other junkie toys as a souvenir.  Christian asked about one of the toys being sold there, but I told him we should select our toys carefully and we don't need to buy toys that will fall apart fast.  Also, we've been telling them that they don't need to buy something every time we go out.  They are extremely good about this, for which I am happy.  Liam was especially excited to see all of his characters that he reads about in his books.  Christian was excited, but I think a bit jealous of Liam as Christian knows that Sesame Street is Liam's "thing".   

Daddy's 41st Birthday

To celebrate Daddy's birthday, Christian painted Daddy a picture for him.  I made a chocolate bundt cake with a cream cheese filing, we grilled chicken tikka and vegetables for his birthday dinner.  The boys loved the cake celebration because of the sparklers that I put on the cake.  Liam was a bit apprehensive about the sparklers at first, but then he loved seeing the sparklers.  With Amy's help, Christian wrapped Daddy's presents and put his signature mark on the package- - he put a car sticker under each bow for each gift.  It was a really nice evening out and a nice simple celebration for daddy.