Beach Babe

    Today was a little slow going and it seemed to be the general consensus that everyone was pretty tired. After Big Brother's nap time we took a walk down the road to hang out at the beach. The water was pretty cold but we took our bag of sand toys for some play time before grocery shopping. Big Brother and Hubby made some sand creatures and put their feet in the water while Froggie seemed happy to sit in the sand. She stood at the edge of the water for a few minutes too but the water was pretty cold.

Sandy toes

Happy Froggie

I'm #1!

My little family

Hubby and Big Brother

Sand toys

She eats EVERYTHING!

Froggie's First Day Trip

*** TONS of photos in this entry!***

Getting ready for our day.

On the road

     Today we did something that we haven't done maybe ever. We took off from work and went for a day trip on a week day as a family. We "slept in" till 8 and got up and packed our stuff up, ate breakfast and loaded the car. We headed south for Pittsburgh to spend the day in the city. Hubby is in the Navy so we took advantage of free Military admission to the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. We had a picnic lunch before heading in which was super simple.
     It was a blast! It was a lot of fun for everyone and there was SO much to do. Even Froggie seemed to enjoy it! (The only downfall was that at this point I realized I packed my Camera and extra lens but left the camera battery on the table. So all cell phone shots it was.... I'm kind of a picture snob so this was REALLY hard for me!)

the ceiling in the studio!

Big Brother wanted to paint first!

Mr. Rogers' sweater!

Feeding Clifford

Froggie & Big Brother with Clifford

Froggie having fun

Making bubbles with a new friend

Froggie and I in the garden

Hubby & Big Brother in the water play room

Big Brother found a boat

Filling a bucket

Watching the big kids play in the water

Drying off

Playing with sand

Froggie food break

Big Brother climbing in the wall

Neat video wall with letters

We parked in the fish lot!

     After we left the Children's Museum we had another quick snack in the car so that we could wait a little later to eat dinner at the game. Once we found parking and walked a block or so to PNC Park we strolled around a bit and got some free drawstring bags from the State farm table and headed for the river walk. It was also Free Shirt Friday so after we stashed away our shirts and acquired gear we actually got to check out the Riverwalk. We  were able to walk around there for a bit before the gates opened and even found a playground which was perfect for entertaining Big Brother.

     We had bought standing room only tickets so once the gates opened we headed for the main concourse to get something to eat. After a nice woman and her mother gave us their table we sat down to eat. We had to bribe Big Brother to eat a nugget and some Fries by letting him eat half a jar of Froggie's banana baby food - hey, whatever works right? 

     After finding a nice spot to watch the game we pretty much stayed put. Froggie did great until the very end and Big Brother had a few periods of being cranky that were quickly resolved by a snack or walk to one of the gift shops.

Froggie's finished shirt!

Welcome to the park

Hubby & Froggie

Playing in the park

Watching the Gateway Clipper

Dinner at the game

The Ergo works for Big Brother too

Froggie's 1st game

Family picture time

Cheese face!

Froggie and Big Brother showing off their new bats

Big Brother and his new bat

Froggie and her new bat

Froggie and Big Brother outside of PNC Park

     It was a GREAT day despite our late return home. We'll have to plan another day trip, maybe one including the Steelers 5K in a couple weeks! 

Feeling Crafty

     Because I'm super excited about tomorrow and our outing I decided to get a little crafty.
     We'll be heading to Pittsburgh for the day to explore the Children's Museum and then head to a Pirates game. It will be a long day but I'm hoping it will also be lots of fun. Big Brother, Hubby and I all have Pirates gear to wear and Froggie has some hand-me-down onesies/rompers but I decided she needed something she could wear pants with just incase it's chilly since it's a night game and PNC Park is right on the river. One of our dogs decided to jump on me while I was outlining the shirt and smudged the paint so I'm planning to ad a bow. I was also going to write something on the back but I don't know if it would be possible since the front needs to dry before I can do anything on the back.

     Big Brother decided to be crafty tonight too. He wanted to make a handprint bear. Something I'd done with my kids at school today. So we made a bear and brought out his art box and opened his new scissors. I think he found a new favorite thing to do and the poor kid cried when he had to pack up his art supplies.

Sweet Treats

     As we left for our walk tonight Hubby grabbed some spare change and we headed into town for dessert first! We did a little over 2 miles so I'm ok with the little bit of ice cream we got. Froggie has gotten pretty bossy about wanting to eat when everyone else has food and I was getting sad looks from Froggie while we were eating out ice cream so we got her a baby cone. (Yes I know that baby's aren't supposed to have dairy and whatever reasons there are for not giving kids ice cream, etc. but I figure if they're pushing yogurt for babies ice cream is not that much different and for 43 cents Froggie could have a few licks of ice cream).

Big Brother with his chocolate mint ice cream

Mom where's my ice cream?

I actually get some?

It's cold!

I want more!

I can do this myself!

Please don't take it away

Mint chocolate ice cream face

Can I have that?

Vanilla ice cream face