Lesley called and asked if Ayla and I wanted to meet her and KK at The Wonder Lab in Bloomington. I had never heard of this place, but it was great! It's like a mini version of The Children's Museum, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper! We got in the car and drove down to Bloomington in morning, and met them there around 10:30am. When we got inside, it was completely packed! There was a 2nd grade fieldtrip going on, but we managed to push our way through to the places we wanted to be. Kinsley was completely excited when she saw everything that she could do inside. She would run to try everything - look at it, do it once or twice, and then want to run to the next activity. It was so cute. Ayla just stared at her and watched her do everything. At first she wouldn't let me put her down, but eventually she warmed up and started to play some too. We lasted about two hours and then decided to go to Buffalo Wild Wings to get some lunch. We got right in, had a delicious lunch and then hugged and said goodbye. It was so nice to be able to meet up and spend some quality time together as sisters, nieces, and cousins. We will definitely be doing it again sometime!
When I got Ayla in the car, she feel asleep immediately - I knew she would because it was past her nap time. When I got home, she was still asleep, so I closed the garage door and let her continue to sleep. I would check on her every 5 minutes or so. The last time I went to check, I heard her crying, so I hurried to open the car door, and immediately noticed that she had barfed all over her entire self and her car seat! I felt so bad. How long had she been sitting in it??!! Mother of the year award doesn't go to me in 2014 either folks! I hurried to get her out of her seat and inside. I got her bathed and figured that maybe she had just gotten too hot in the back of the car. She acted completely fine after the bath. So I got her car seat out of the car, started to take it apart to wash it in the washer, and decided to giver her a tiny bit of juice incase she was dehydrated - which she proceeded to puke up all down her bib. (I should get some sort of award though because I caught every last bit of it in the pocket of her bib, got the bib off of her, and go rid of the stuff without spilling any of it!) After she got sick for the second time, she was running around playing and that was the last we saw of the BUG. Not sure if something didn't settle well with her stomach, she had some sort of bug, or if she really did get too hot in the car. I guess we'll never know! But a couple days after, Fancy and I ended up throwing up after eating Bob's To Your Door. (It make my stomach weak just writing the name of the pizza place.) Ayla could have passed the bug to us, or it may have been the pizza, but whatever it was, I'm glad that it's over!
Ayla keeps all of our lives so much more interesting than they had been before she was here. That's for sure!
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| KK working really hard to pull her own body weight up to the top of the ride - such a cool activity - and she's obviously very determined! |
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| Abe the Babe |
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| How many Kinsley's do you see? |
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| Ayla liked beating on the musical drum behind her - and trying to eat the drumstick too of course. |
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| Running around the playground |
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| Watch out below Miss Ayla! |
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| Kinsley said it was like she was flying! |
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| Can you believe that my child just really wanted to sit by the window and read some books that she found?! |
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| Not too thrilled with the water table |
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| Peekaboo! |
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| The bubble room was the coolest! KK would make an enormous bubble and then put her hand through it without even breaking it! |
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| So fun to watch her little brain learn |
