Arizona Part 2

Thursday morning the girls and I went to The Children's Museum of Phoenix.  We went there last summer and the girls loved it so they asked to go back.

Of course they loved the Climber and I had to pry them off of it.

They are at the very top

They're trapped!

Taylor did a little painting

I asked one of the workers what they do with the rocket when they are done with it and she said that it will eventually brake from all the paint and they throw them away.  She said it ends up with about 200 layers of paint and they rotate colors everyday.

Did some desert art

This section was new and it was super cool.  The whole wall was covered the a velcro like material and they had a huge bucket full of words so the kids could make funny sentences with them.

Kendall's sentence

A fabric tree house

 A wall of rubber feeling shoes

The girls wanted to play in the market, which I was surprised at, but the way they play now is much different.  I watched both of them shopping with their carts and it was really interesting to see what they would pick.  

This is Taylor's cart- chocolate milk, mac and cheese, Girl Scout cookies, and LOTS of fruits and veggies.  Pretty much her in a nut shell.

We had races in the Noodle Forest

After we had our fill of the children's museum we went to B.A. and Amy's house for some more fun.

I mentioned earlier that Amy is extremely knowledgeable about art and she offered to do some arts and crafts with the girls (their favorite) so we took her up on that.

First project was to learn about Dale Chihuly (if you been to the Bellagio in the lobby you have seen his work) who is known for his blown glass artwork.  They took Shrinky Dink paper and acrylic paint  to design it and then stuck it in the oven for about 10 seconds and the paper shrinks and curls up to look similar to his work.  I didn't get an after picture but we will be doing this project again.

Gavin, Kendall, and Taylor busy painting

Next up was a lesson about clay sculpting.  I was not real good at this.

Kendall with her snake

After we baked them and let the sculptures cool they painted them.

And of course some swimming

Silly children

Friday was our last day to have some fun and the kids wanted to go to an indoor trampoline place.

Taylor getting a lesson in ping pong from Shane

After lunch Amy dropped us off at the movie theatre to meet Mama Edson to go watch Brave

Mama Edson, Kendall, Gavin, Shane, and Taylor

Later that evening we went to the boys baseball practice to watch and say good-bye.  It was really hot in Phoenix (like 111 hot) so thank goodness their practice was in the evening.

Papa with the girls

One last picture before we left.

The girls and I had the best time visiting and exploring this week.  We decided that it would become an annual summer trip!  Thanks Mama Edson, Papa, B.A., Amy, Gavin and Shane for making our week super fun.