Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Hanging Out Indoors--COSI & Polaris Mall

We spent quite a bit of time indoors this weekend, heading to COSI on Saturday and the Polaris Mall on Sunday.  Now that all the Halloween & fall activities are behind us, we finally had a free weekend to head to COSI.  Lucy was pretty excited especially since she's been asking me for weeks if we could go.  I try to save COSI for more of the colder months since there is so much more to do outside during the warmers months but with nothing on our calendar on Saturday and it being a little chilly outside, we went to COSI.  We started with the Thomas the Train exhibit followed by Little Kidspace and the Progress exhibit.  Last time we went, Cece wasn't mobile so this time was a bit more interesting as I was on my own with both girls.  We survived though, the girls had fun, and Cece took a nice long nap that afternoon.

Waiting in line to check in at COSI

Lucy & Thomas the Train

They re-did part of Little Kidspace and now have a "fire truck" the kids can drive

Lucy taking a turn behind the wheel

Lucy was driving and showing Cece which buttons to push 

Playing with a microscope

Such a big girl riding on this

She was loving it as she scooted around

What can I say?  She loves to dress up and it doesn't matter if it's a horse costume!

So excited when she figured out which button opened the cash register drawer

Water table fun

Packed a lunch to eat; this picture sums up my girls perfect too--Lucy is posing and Cece is too busy eating to even look up

Sitting in a buggy in the Progress exhibit 

Daylight savings was Saturday night/Sunday morning and with kids, you never quite know what to expect.  I feel like so many parents dread this weekend but honestly (and don't hate me), our girls aren't even phased by it.  They were both awake around 7:00 AM which is just a little earlier than normal on the weekends (we have to wake them up during the week between 6:30-6:45 AM) and both went to bed at the same time on Sunday night.  Anyways, since the girls were rested and in good moods, we went to Polaris on Sunday afternoon to play (it was raining on and off most of the day) and so I could check out the Made Local Marketplace vendors set up around the mall.  I might have bought the girls more headbands from Nora Jean Handmade which are my favorite.  Always such cute designs and they're so soft!

So happy to climb up and jump off this repeatedly

And Cece was content crawling through all the tunnels

Vendors set up all inside the mall for the Made Local Marketplace

Lucy wanted me to take a picture of her with her mini Santa hat that she wanted from Bath & Body Works--it's supposed to be a decoration for your soap dispenser (I think?) but she wanted it for her bitty baby

The weekend flew by and it's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is in 2 weeks! Todd's birthday is coming up so we'll be having some birthday celebrations (with the girls and a date night) in the next couple weeks that we're looking forward to.

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