Winter Outings

The winter weather has pretty much kept us indoors the past 6 or 8 weeks, so we've had to be creative in finding fun things to do with Caroline so we don't get too stir crazy in the house. Fortunately, Cincinnati has a lot to offer in this department and we are taking advantage of it all.

We have made several trips to the children's museum, once last week and I took a few pictures.


It's the perfect size for a toddler because you can pretty much play with everything in a few hours time and get home to crash for a nice long nap! Some of her favorite things to do there include the toddler-only play area complete with a slide, playing "house," overseeing the construction zone, and trying out the musical instruments.

She made me laugh when she was playing house because when we arrived at that particular area, no other children were in there. She promptly rocked all the babies and put them ALL in one crib, covered them up with a blanket and then sat down for a little break for herself (after all, it's hard work tucking in four babies at once!).




You can see in the next picture, another little girl entered that area and pulled all the babies out of the crib - just check out Caroline's expression.... she was not pleased about this.


Today, we went to the zoo for a "Singing Safari" class. The instructor was wonderful and had them all very engaged in singing and dancing like different zoo animals. We got to see (and touch!) a lizzard, owl and rooster during the class too which was a first for Caroline. She was very interested to touch them and didn't cower at all like some of the other kids (and her mother!).