The last weekend in April my parents came up for a short visit. EK loves when Granny and Papi come around and will continue to ask for Papi well after he leaves... as my friend Amy says, she knows whose got the checkbook!
We decided to take Ella to the
Brookshire's World of Wildlife Museum. This is a free museum in town that has a great playground. We didn't know how interested she would be in doing anything so we figured hey it's free so at least we won't be out any money if she only wants to stay inside 10 minutes (which is what happened!)
Ella is huge on holding hands when we walk right now. Her favorite part though is to have two people walk with her and she holds both of your hands!
The museum is full of 'stuffed' wildlife that the original Brookshire's killed during their safari's in Africa and animals that other people have donated to the museum. I had to take a picture of these monkey's they have dressed playing Monopoly. I thought it was hilarious!
There is a great playground right outside the museum where lots of people have birthday parties (Hello it's FREE). Ella had a great time checking it out!
Of course she refused to leave until she could go and see the baby elephants in the parking lot. We tried so hard to get her to sit next to Granny for a picture but that never happened. I am pretty sure my child laughs internally when I ask her to pose.
When I had asked Papi and Granny what they would like to do while they were here for a visit, Papi said he wanted to take EK to the park and have a picnic. Though Papi's idea of a picnic involved KFC fried chicken, I decided that Chick-Fil-A was a way better idea so we picked it up and headed over to our favorite park to eat at the picnic tables.
Ella thought this was just the greatest thing... not sure if she loved it so much cause she got to sit on Granny's lap and eat or because she was eating her favorite meal and Granny was even letting her dip her nuggets into BBQ sauce (as you can see the remnants of the sauce on her lips below!)
Granny and Papi are headed her this weekend so we will have to think of something else fun to do while they are in town. Though the pool opens this weekend so that might be where we are headed. It's topped out at well over 90 already a few times this May so the pool sounds mighty refreshing!
