NOLA - IV

Yesterday we walked the five or so blocks and met Annette, Austin, and Sophie at the Louisiana Children's Museum.  We went for toddler time, but got there about 45 minutes early and enjoyed some free play time first.

Eli thinks he has become quite the daredevil lately.  He climbs up as high as he can get,

and then climbs down by leaning over, putting his head on the ground, followed by his hands and then slowly the legs come down too.  I will say that he is very careful!

Eli climbs in, Sophie climbs out, and Austin slides down.

Stairs are Eli's newest trick.  He climbed up these all by himself!  He did this several times.  Wesley would then help him slide down the slide next to the stairs.

There were several kids there for toddler time.  All of them bigger than Eli.  They talked about picnics, but this is what Eli thought about that.  He crawled off; he was not interested in picnics or how to make a sandwich!

After toddler time we walked through the rest of the museum with Annette, Austin, and Sophie.  It was lunch time and nap time by this point and Eli was beginning to get fussy.  We parted ways and went back to our resort for a nap.  After we napped we drove to Metairie to do a little shopping and to have dinner again with Matthew (my cousin), Annette, Austin, and Sophie.  Annette made a DELICIOUS tomato bow-tie pasta with sausage.  It was seriously sooo good!  Eli showed off how well he could climb.  He kept climbing up and over Austin's Mickey Mouse chair to the couch which he would try to climb up and over.  Wesley would then lower him to the floor behind the couch and he would do his speed crawl to the stairs and try to climb the 12 or so stairs to the second floor.  He would smile and look so proud of himself every time.

After dinner we came back to the resort and watched How the States Got Their Shapes.  We love this show.  Wesley and I are History Channel addicts.  You must watch it if you haven't ever seen it before.  This is about the only show I watch this summer.  I'm ready for Biggest Loser to come back on.