We were having a great morning at the playground getting to know the other moms and kids in our new preschool co-op when the skies opened up on us.
As we piled into the car, slightly drippy and much cooler, I posed the question, "what should we do now?"
The obvious answer from the preschool set: the Please Touch Museum!
If ever a trip were destined for failure, this was one. I wasn't packed for the museum so I didn't have nearly enough food; we were arriving just after our (somewhat skimpy) lunch; we had to run from our car up the slippery granite steps to the museum entrance while it thundered*; and the baby is going through a fussy phase.
Despite these odds, the trip was a huge success, fun from start to finish, even when we went into the supermarket to shop. Even when Thomas decided it was his turn to push a coveted shopping cart.
Thomas also took a few trips down the slide. Peter caught him at the bottom while Lucy tried to jump atop him on the slide itself. I'm pretty sure the Please Touch employee who mans that slide feared for the baby, although I also trust these employees have seen all sorts of crazy parenting. I'm sure she could tell Lucy jumped (on Thomas) with love, not malice.
Lucy found a quiet, priavte place to give her baby milky
*In the far distance, but any rumble of thunder is cause to shriek and cover ears. I'm not sure what happened between this summer and last to cause such thunder fear, except perhaps that they've been awake for some pretty loud storms. Oh, and one storm early in the summer caused some serious damage, including felling a HUGE tree inches from their beloved swingset and tossing tree-sized branches atop Sameul and Penelope's house.
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