Last Friday night we went to the Children's Museum here in Winston-Salem for their discount night. We hadn't been in nearly a year since the last discount night and we really wanted to see if Emmett would still enjoy it. Well he had a blast and we decided it would be worth the money to buy a yearly membership.
After two straight days in the house, yesterday watching the rain fall all day, we needed to get out. So this morning we decided to go back to the museum. I like just letting him run and watching to see which activities he chooses to go to. Friday night he spent the majority of his time in the Krispy Kreme donut factory where they can put plastic donuts onto conveyer belts and turn wheels to make them move and fall into bins and other such things. I figured that would be exactly where he wanted to go again, but surprisingly he didn't spend much time there today. Emmett tends to have a pretty short attention span, especially when he's excited. So he mostly ran from one thing to the other, not staying on any one thing for long. I think that as we go more often and he gets used to it, he will find certain areas that are favorites of his. They always have a craft room where they can make something, but so far Emmett isn't very interested in stuff like that. He doesn't really like to color, he will occasionally paint, but mostly he wants me to do the drawing and coloring telling me "Mommy, draw a truck! Mommy draw Lightning McQueen!" He played for a while in the grocery store part. He likes to play with the cash register, anything with buttons. He did explore a few areas that he wouldn't try last time. They have this big climbing aparatus that has a lot of platforms they can climb up on, which he used to be afraid of, but this time he tried it for a while. A few times he got himself into places he was afraid to climb back down from, but I was able to talk him down each time. He spent a lot more time in the fairy tale land today as well, trip trapping up and down the bridge from the Three Billy Goats Gruff. I like to see him use his imagination beyond just reinacting scenes from Cars with his cars. We spent about an hour and a half there this morning, which seemed like plenty and was a welcome break from the walls of this house. I'm also hoping that I will have the chance to connect with other stay at home moms there. I did see one mom that I had met at a park a month or so ago, so that was cool. And I'm hoping Emmett might make some friends who are there regularly.
Of course the only bad thing about being out this morning is that Owen did not get much of a nap. He didn't fall asleep until noon on our way home, when he just recently started napping from about 10:30 until noon. And he only got about 10 minutes of sleep because he woke up as soon as I brought him in from the car. So many times I have wished that it was ok to just leave him sleeping in the car, because he never stays asleep once I get him out. And for the last 3 days he has taken good naps, at least an hour and a half at a time as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. So this afternoon he didn't nap as well and I'm worried that I screwed that up with just one morning of disruption to his schedule. Oh well, I said that with this child I was not going to be a slave to a schedule, that I was going to be more flexible for my own sanity. So I am going to try and stick to that. And its for Emmett's benefit too. I can't keep him in the house all the time just so that his brother can nap on a schedule. Its not fair to him.
Well I do believe I have actually finished a blog post without interruption. Awesome!
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