Children's Museum

I have lived in the North Country for over half of my life and never knew there was a Children's Museum in North Conway. The kids won the birthday gift certificate off of WOKQ last year so we had a $25 gift certificate to Rafferty's so we made a day of it...went to lunch then to the museum. Admission price is only $5 and the kids definitely could have enjoyed staying far longer than the 3 hours we were there.

Aubrey and Bumpa checking out the big kalidoscope


Their favorite exhibit...the skidder!








Playing with the dress up stuff!










Checking out the tree house!






Loving building shapes on the wall


Playing the gravity ball game








The train room!














Cameron the Conductor!


Matthew making the train go and Cameron making the train go "Choo-Choo!"


Brady showing how strong he is by pulling the train lever


Cool little Cozy Coupe!




Marble room










Checking out the "puters"!


Brady making the rocks change colors


Cameron was excited that the turned GREEN!


Exploring the castle and the knight's horses!














Making a donation!


A slide that is Aubrey's speed!


Brady chilling out with the doggies!


Doing some shopping


They thought Daddy was stuck in the wall when they listened to him talk until Ben showed them the trick...they thought it was pretty cool!


Making electricity


Heading down to see more exhibits




Outerspace! So many "Mister Moons!"




Making music


Cooking some supper!

Bowling with the quaddlers!

The quads got invited to Bailee's birthday party at the bowling alley. The kids started out the morning coming home from sleepovers VERY crabby and peeing their pants like crazy so I was leary about bringing them but we couldn't back out of the party so they got an early lunch and we decided that with gas at nearly $4.00/gallon it was a better choice to drive around so they would get a short nap before the party than to skip naptime entirely...not really sure that that short nap really benefited them because we dealt with several meltdowns before it was time to go but they did have fun in between the meltdowns.

Cameron trying his hand at bowling.


OH YEAH!


Cameron explaining to Matthew how to bowl


Matthew's turn!


STRIKE!


Let me try it without the guide!


Brady's up next!




Aubrey's finally getting a turn!


That's how it is done boys!


Group effort!


Who's up next?


I LOVE THIS SONG!




Aubrey showing Cameron he isn't the only dancer in the family!


Cameron and the birthday girl!


Happy birthday Bailee!

The sickies...

Just as I finished bragging about how all my kids have been healthy enough all winter that we have not had to make a trip to the pediatrician since their well child check in September the sickies started. Aubrey was up all night starting two weeks ago and just miserable during the day. I was able to get her in for an appointment at the exact same time that I had to be on the road for an appointment for myself that Ben was going with me for so Grammie to the rescue! She brought Aubrey to the doctors and spent the day with her.

A week later Aubrey still hadn't slept very well, we're talking up 10-15 times per night, and she had developed a croupy cough as did Cameron. Brdy and Matthew both were up all last Sunday and Monday night complaining of earaches. So after about an hour sleep total I made the foursome an appointment and brought them over to the pediatrician's office to learn that Brady had a ruptured ear drum, Matthew had an ear infection, Cameron and Aubrey had the croup.

Luckily with medication the boys were able to get some rest Tuesday night...Aubrey not so much. She was up until 3:30 am on Wednesday crying, whimpering, and squirming around then finally fell asleep just for the boys to think 5:30 should be wake up time. I felt like a walking zombie. My mom offered to take the kiddos Thursday night so I could get some sleep. I was thrilled at the thought of it until Aubrey decided she just wanted to stay with Mommy...of course the one who can't sleep stays and the three that were back to sleeping decided they wanted to go. I discovered at this point that she also was getting the top two year molars so that was making her extra crabby.

Aubrey was loving the time alone with just Mommy and Daddy until bed time. I read her a couple books and tucked her in and I could tell that she was feeling uneasy so I waited outside the door for a minute to see if she would cry but she didn't so I went down and started some laundry and I heard over the monitor "mommy?" in a quiet voice so I went up to see what she needed. Aubrey told me "I scared to sleep without the boys" so she ended up in the spare toddler bed in our room for the night and only woke up 5 times.

Finally Friday night we were back to sleeping all night! YAY! It was a rough two weeks!

Silly quaddlers

They love covering their eyes and having me pretend that I do not see them. They laugh when I very dramatically act scared when they uncover their eyes...anything to hear their amazing little laughs!










Playing with the dress up box...they love to dress up and act silly and I love to laugh at their craziness!




Hell must have frozen over...Brady and Aubrey playing nicely together is like some sort of miracle!