Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Birthday Blogging - part 2

On Wednesday last week, the kids and I celebrated the great weather and Norrie's new status as a one year old. We started with a lazy morning at home, complete with pancakes in our pj's (and a candle in Norrie's pancake stack, per CW request). Then we packed up and went to visit this Monkey Junction I've heard so much about. It was as nice (and clean) as we had heard. And the free coffee was pretty decent tasting. Both kids had a good time - Conrad's favorite item was the "roller coaster" scooter thing, Norrie's favorite seemed to be climbing up stairs and going down the slide. Repeat. repeat. repeat :)

When Monkey Junction closed down at 1pm, we moved outside and had a picnic.









Next on our agenda was "naps". I put Norrie in my carrier and Conrad in a stroller. Norrie fell asleep promptly but Conrad preferred to jump out of the stroller every 5-10 minutes to run or explore. I didn't discourage him, burning off energy is just as important as sleep at his age!
After our walk, Norrie was dropped off to visit a good friend while I took Conrad to the planetarium for a short cardboard rocket ship ride through the galaxy. (it was awesome!)


And last stop for the day was meeting daddy at Chipotle. Norrie does quite well with her two little teeth!