Eight Years of Marriage & The Discovery Room

Ken and I have now been married for eight years (well, plus 3 weeks if you count how late this post is). Shockingly, Ken actually had the day off (one of only 4 days off that month). However either because we are now a seasoned, boring couple or because I'm still incapabable of calling and asking to pawn my kids off on someone while I go have fun, A. & J. joined us on our romantic holiday. Really though, we were in desperate need of some fun family time and this was just the thing. Seeing as how EVERYTHING is closed on Mondays here, we headed to the St Louis Science Center. It sounds kind of boring for two preschoolers so we'd never been, but the "Discovery Room" was such a big success A. didn't stop talking about it for days. So here are some snips of our fun:

A & J racing cars down the pinewood derby-ish track; A. building "machines" with tons of "spinning gears" (both favorite topics of his); Ken showing A. how to work the train bridge.

J. still loves balls and wheels. He was having such fun exploring the different toys in the room, (noise makers, magnets, big fish tank, etc), but every few minutes he'd quickly dash back to the ball pit and crawl in.

Here is A. playing with BUGS...most of which were fake. He's holding a giant cockroach in the top pic. That's right Mom - a huge, crunchy COCKROACH. I think I definately prefer the bird-catching.

J. was so adorable playing drums in the big TP. Can you see how much he was getting into it? Apparently we need to get that boy a set of drums!

Here is A & J riding the rocket ship we 'built' in the NASA room. And they say building rockets is complicated...

So after the Science Center we did a picnic in the park (where we ate PB&J and the mosquitoes ate US). I know - aren't we cute? That night we took the kids with us to dinner too since you can't very well hire a babysitter on family night, and while they drank strawberry smoothies I basked in the glory of coconut shrimp with my hubby of 8-yrs. So here's to us! Hip-Hip?