North Carolina

Marbles Museum

Abbey playing hockey

Giving Yates a bath

Singing on stage at Marbles

Abbey and I flew to North Carolina April 7- 12th. We had tons of fun once I got my luggage on day 2. The first day was spent playing and hugging/kissing babies. Julie, the 2 older kids and I left in the afternoon to pick up my luggage at the airport and we spent some time playing at a neat park at the airport that sat right next to the runway.... We played in the sand and watched the planes land and take off. After dinner on Wednesday Abbey helped Julie bathe both babies and get them ready for bed. She thought this was the coolest thing ever!!! Abbey and Ethan had a very hard time getting along most of the trip (they always wanted the same toy, baby etc and the exact same time)...

On Thursday we got up early and went to a children's museum in downtown Raleigh (Marbles) and we spent the entire day there and were the last one's out the door. We spent the morning playing in the interactive section where the kids got to pretend to be firemen, postal workers, play store & kitchen, pirate ship, etc. We ate lunch at a cool little cafe down the street and then we went back for more fun. The kids played in the balls, played hockey, raced cars and then at 3pm we headed to the IMAX theater to see Monsters vs. Aliens 3D. After the movie ended we headed back to the museum and played in the balls some more till they literally kicked us out. We headed home for dinner and the kids all went down pretty early.