A Day at the Museum

As I previously mentioned, during this gorgeous warm week and having Travis home, we decided it'd be fun to go to the museum on Tuesday when we picked up Sage from school. They have a special "Chocolate" exhibit right now, and if you know me, that's one of my favorite things in life. Unfortunately, they weren't giving it away, but you could purchase it, which we did. We had a WONDERFUL time. The last time we were there, Jaggar was still in his baby sling. There's a picture of that day on the sidebar to the right on the blog. I always have wonderful memories when we go. I saw a particular bench and remembered feeding Jaggar baby food from our last visit. The time before that, I was on my last day of pregnancy. This time, I had a very busy toddler running everywhere. All of these times have been wonderful. I kept looking at my family (3 of the members, aside from me) and kept thinking, "This is the life. I have it all." And I do.

The kids and I outside the museum
This first picture is one in a series I'd like to call, "Jaggar: Not looking at the camera." Enjoy it. If you've never been to the Anniston Museum, I'd really recommend going. It's one of the nicest things that our town has to offer, I think, and it's just beautiful up there.

I LOVE chocolate.

He's only facing the general direction of the camera because he's restrained. That didn't last long.

I think these were cocoa beans that you could touch? I very well could have just made that up because I don't remember.

The gift shop is right up front, so we stopped there first so they weren't closed before we got back. Sage has always had a thing for band-aids, so I thought these chocolate ones were cute for her.

Sage was excited because they are learning about dinosaurs at school. This girl LOVES school.

These are little "worms" that live on the ocean floor. Travis saw them and said, "What is that? Fallopian tubes?" Bahahaha.

My crew. THEEERE'S Jaggar being true to form. ;)

Sage and I in the cave tunnel. Check her out here.

Stalactites. I totally looked that up to be sure, but I did have an inclination to put stalactites. But seriously, I KNEW it was those and not stalagmites ( Okay, I knew it was one or the other.) because middle school knowledge came back to me and one of my test saving strategies flooded back in a thought, "They are hanging on tight." hahaha! I guess you could have a wrong strategy and think, "They are hanging on with all of their might," and choose the incorrect one. Okay, moving on...

Jaggar loved throwing change into the little pond in the cave.

This is proof that given a few more minutes, he would have found his way into that exhibit because, trust me, he is looking for a way in this picture.

Cleaning fossils.

We've made this tradition at this point. :) Love Sage's face.

See them under there?

Okay, Travis set this up, of course, but later I said, "You should've had me tilt my head up more towards its beak." He actually said and I quote, "It has two heads." Um what? Yeah, I don't really know HOW or WHY he thought that, but he did. I pointed out to him the anatomy of the bird and that, indeed, it only had one head. One of the reasons I love him is because he makes me laugh so much.

They really love each other.

Yep.

And again.

He thinks that he is so big.

More chocolate. Love this.

Aren't these chairs fun?

On the way out

As you can see, I didn't DARE put Jaggar down right here. You can guess where he would be in 2 seconds. I'm a bit fearful that even I will take a spill. That sidewalk is not wide enough for a trip. Sage LOVES this because of the little water spout that you can walk under (or water spout that you can walk IN, in her case).

Love my sweet girl

As we loaded up into the car and I was buckling Jaggar in, Sage decided that she'd take the scenic route to her seat. If I'd have been back there, I probably would've gotten onto her for doing that, but looking at this picture that Travis took, I can't help but laugh. Kids are great, aren't they?