A visit to the toy museum; other odds & ends

During spring break we went to the Toy and Action Figure museum in Pauls Valley. It's small but the kids had a great time. The main exhibit depicts a bedroom that has been taken over by hundreds of action figures.



Charlotte was entranced by this grouping, and spent a long time lying on her stomach looking at it. She described the four figures in front as "baby, mama, boots, boots."







Isaac, George & Alex on a dinosaur. Although the museum provides lots of costumes for dressing up, George and Alex brought theirs from home. (George supplemented his firefighter's outfit with a knights' head covering -- he thought it made a great fire-resistant hood.)








Here we are building in the Lego room.











*********************** back home ***********************



Charlotte loves the frog pull toy.














You can't tell by looking, but I'm reading a book that George asked for!












Charlotte was taking her baby doll and Mama Ooof for a walk when she ran across the Teletubbies. As it turns out, the stroller accommodates Po and Tinky Winky as well!

Let us eat cake!

Dean and the children made me a German chocolate cake for my birthday. We bought the special "German chocolate" bars, only to discover that it's just chocolate with more sugar, and the cake recipe is any old chocolate cake recipe, with less sugar. Only the coconut filling/frosting is special.

George decided it should be in heart shaped cake pans, "for love." He also thought it should be decorated to look like yarn, because "Mama likes yarn." You got that right, kiddo!



Mmmm, coconut filling.

George and Charlotte put in the candles, too.


It looks like yarn (and love) to me!

Happy Birthday to me!

For my birthday, we went to the zoo.




Charlotte loved the zeebas.


This rhinoceros is about 7 weeks old.


I think they'd like to ride on the real baby rhino, too!

Meerkats!



I think these wild dogs are beautiful. They were very active, so we felt lucky. Often when we go their cage looks empty.

It was a wonderful day, and we all had a great time. But a trip to the zoo doesn't leave much time for baking a cake -- so they put it off until the next day ("Happy Frosting Day," according to George).

Blogger is not uploading my pictures right now -- who knows why -- so I'll put the cake pictures up later.