Feeding Herself

When Molly was eating baby food, I was never the mom who gave it to her in a bowl and let her make a huge mess.  Now that she eats regular food, it's mostly finger food and she feeds herself.  The other day while I was making dinner, she was acting hungry, so I gave her yogurt and a spoon and let her feed herself.  She did great and loved it!  She was so cute. 

Louisville

 Our next stop after Indy was Louisville.  We went straight to the Louisville Slugger Museum. 

 The tour was very neat.  It was cool to see how the bats are made.  We saw where they make bats for several players in the major leagues.  Both kids were great on the tour.  And we all got free bats!  Just what two kids need, right!

 My parents!! We had such a good time with them!

 Here, you could do swings with bats that have been used by amazing players.  Scott had to wear gloves to keep the bats perfect.

 They also had batting cages.  Tyler wanted to hit too, but you had to be 6 years old.  He had to settle for the kids area.

 The next day, we went to Churchill Downs.  Again, it was a very interesting tour. 

 We're in the starting gates ready to go.

 Several trainers were out riding their horses.  Tyler really liked that.  It's amazing to me that there are over 1,000 horses stabled there.

 This is where the horses walk down going out to the track on race day.

 Back inside the museum, there were horsed to ride and race up on a screen.  Tyler won his race several times. 

 There were displays on the jokey suits and hats & outfits that several popular women wore.

At the museum they had every Kentucky Derby ever raced that you could pull up and watch; they had a trivia game that Scott beat me at; they had phones that you could listen to the trainers talk about certain horses-it was interesting to learn about their personalities; an area when you could call the race and hear how you sounded compared to the real announcer.  They announcer was way better than me.  After the tour, we packed a lunch and went to this very cool park-Cherokee Park.  The kids had a blast!

Our time in Louisville was finished after this.  Molly was ready for a nap, so it was the perfect time to head to Nashville.  That post will be coming soon.

Indianapolis Children's Museum

We started our vacation off in Indy.  My parents had rented a van and picked us up at the airport Sunday.  Monday we headed to the Children's Museum.  I remember going there when I was younger.  It is an awesome, 4 floor museum and the kids loved it!  When you enter, there is a big Bumblebee, which Tyler loved since he's in to Transformers.  ( I can't seem to move the picture down or start the words above it)

Here is scuba Tyler

Molly loved the fish!  She'd point and wave to them.  She could have stayed there all day!

 

I don't remember the story, but this whole army was found and only a few were intact, the rest had to be put together.  This is my parents and Tyler putting the man back together.

ahh-success!

 Lego Land was Amazing!!  This is the tower Tyler built.  There were big lego's like this to use and a room full of small lego's too. Molly loved taking all the lego's apart. 

 This whole city is made of Lego's.  There are tons like this-a huge rocket, the golden gate bridge, a huge train, semi truck, hot air balloon, titanic...just a ton.  They were incredible.

 This Lego car was by far the favorite.  The whole thing is made of Lego's.  Molly could not get enough of it. 

 There were a whole Hot Wheels area too.  There were lots of cool cars, cars to sit in, cars to work on, areas to race cars.  Again, Molly loved the cars to sit in and drive.

 There was a huge construction area.  Tyler could have stayed there all day!

Tyler is operating the crane up there on the right side.  It really does move the crane with that bag of supplies attatched to it. 

 There was also a huge dump truck you could fill with pretend rocks and them dump them out.  Tyler did that a good 3 times at least.

There was also a big dinosaur exhibit. 

These pictures aren't even all the museum.  There was a train area, a big water area, and even a carousel ride.  There was a playscape area that had a cute little kids area that Molly really liked-it had windows to open, light switches to turn on an off, buttons to push to hear sounds and things like that.

If you are ever in Indy, you must go to this Children's Museum!

Molly's 1 year pictures

 I was a little late getting Molly's 1 year picture, but they are here now and just adorable thanks to Amy Elkins. 

 

 

 

Weekend in Houston

I'm a little late in posting this, but last weekend we went to Houston.  Here is Molly snuggling with Grandpop and another of her and Grandmom at the lake. 

 

I was able to see one of my best friends, Jennifer.  I was so excited to see her.  I don't think I've seen her since Molly was born.  It was great hanging out and catching up. 

Jen has two Maltese dogs and one of them had puppies a few months back. They have 2 or 3 of the puppies still.  There were little dogs all over the place and they were so cute.  Molly had a blast with them. 

Later that evening, Tyler showed off his baseball skills for Grandmom.  He can hit the ball really well.

Tyler was searching through the room he stays in and found this G I Joe stuff.  Scott set it up for him and he had a blast with it.  We left this at Grandmom's house to have next time since last time, we brought home Castle Grayskull and all the men that go with that. 

On our way home, we met some friends at Katy Mills.  Tyler's friend, Mark is the back right and his brother, Brett is next to Tyler.  The other little boy wanted to be in the picture.  They had a fun time running around the kids area, while I caught up with their mom, Kathleen. 

That was our trip.  The kids got tons of attention and the grandparents were excited to see them!