This is Mama and Reed before we hit the water for a record breaking two hour float. It was hot and muggy and the only place that felt good was in the water. I tied a rope around Reed's belly and then put him in this float and tied the other end of the rope to my float. It was a little windy so every few minutes I had to paddle us back in front of the dock, trailing Reed behind. He just chilled for two hours. It must have felt good to have his feet dangling in the water. Joan and Stu joined us on their own floats, and Theo and Beckett swam around and did lots of jumping off the dock and playing tag in the water.
Saturday the boys went to a Hangar Theatre Kiddstuff play with Daddy and Grandma Joanie, then we floated and swam most of the afternoon before celebrating Mama's birthday with corndogs and icebox cake Saturday night. Sunday morning we got to catch up with Cousin Diane, who was in town for a high school reunion. Then later Sunday Theo and Mama went to the Museum of the Earth (a bust) and Beckett and Daddy went to the Sciencenter.
You can tell Theo is kind of over it before we even went into the Museum. We probably should have just gone in, looked at the right whale skeleton, smooshed our pennies in the crank machine, and then jetted to get ice cream.
They didn't really have a lot that a five year old could appreciate. We spent probably 10 minutes looking for fossils in a couple big buckets of shale from Lansing, which was kind of neat and I was amazed that Theo had that much patience but the fossils were small and it wasn't easy to see them under the light because the stool and position of the light weren't made for little bodies and hands. There was also kind of a lame section with a couple crap dinosaur costume parts (see above) and some hard plastic dinosaur models (snooze). We made up for it by going raspberry picking and then buying peaches and blueberries at Indian Creek Farm up the road. Though the raspberry picking was a little sparse--4 for Theo and 2 for me.
