Betty Brinn Children's Museum with Nonnie!

Two weekends ago, Nonnie (my mom) visited and we went to Betty Brinn for some fun. I have taken Layla there once before, when she was much younger. She had fun the first time, but she was just over a year old then. This time, she had so much fun we all but had to drag her out of there. By the time we were in the car, Jake, my mom and I were taking bets on how fast Layla would fall asleep (she was out like a light at the 10 minute mark, which meant Jake won the pot).

By far, Layla's favorite part of the museum was the grocery store. It's a child size store (obviously) where the kids can just go crazy and shop their little hearts out. The cutest part is that the kids take on the rolls of clerk, deli counter person, etc., all themselves. You'll see in the shot below of Layla girl at the deli counter that another little one was behind the counter, "taking her order". Jake and I really got into it and were playing along with all of the kids too. We were making the parents laugh quite a bit, but were surprised that we were the only parents that were really getting into it. I guess we can chalk that up to not giving a hoot what other people think of us. We were really hamming it up... using the phone in the deli to call the clerk and ask her if she needed a bagger or backup. Hilarious.

Lookin' forward to the next trip! Anyone want to bring your little ones and come with us??!

This little push cart thing was awesome. It was for carrying the golf balls around that the kids used to put in all the fancy contraptions (funnels, tracks, etc). Bean loved it!


I am having so much fun right now!! This is Layla sitting inside the "choo choo train".

Uh, yes? Can I help you? I'm sort of busy right now... I'm driving a train.

Look how happy she is!!!! Makes me smile!!

Carrying as many golf balls as she possibly could. She was kind of hogging them, because she wanted to fill up her "golf ball kart". I thought it was adorable.

At the "check out". So hilarious. She was in her own little world, just putting all the food from her kart onto the counter for the little girl who was "checking her out".

Getting herself some fresh ground coffee, of course. :)

Yes, I'll take a fresh deli sandwich, three steaks, some sushi for my mom and some potato salad.

Man, I'm so busy I'm working up a sweat (look at her pink cheeks).

Let's do this!
Nonnie and Layla milking a cow! Mooooo!!
Nonnie and Layla gathering corn. :)

The girls.
The family.