Another Trip to NC

Another girl cousin is expected in our family in January!  After her arrival there will be limited space for my family of four, so we thought we would make an early Thanksgiving trip and sleep in the guest room before it is converted to another kid room.

We made one big outing on Saturday to the Museum of Life and Science in Durham.  The museum was awesome for all the kids, big and small.

Making a sand storm

She's ready for the big wheel on the Price is Right!

Can you guess who won?  :)

What kid doesn't love the phone?

Some kind of physics thing... I really should like this stuff
as a math major, but I don't.

Buttons and phones.  Do they need
anything else in a museum?

The boys played here for a long time while
Evie and I checked out the outer space area

Building and destructing

Totally kid friendly there.  Braylen is on a stool checking
out this exhibit.  He loved it

Launching paper cups

Everyone would have been content after all the inside exhibits, but wait, there are acres of exhibits outside!

We strolled through the petty farm while the little ones snacked

You don't realize how big a cow is until you are this close to it.
Evie was thankful to be in the stroller.  Look at her face, poor girl.

The butterfly house

Aunt Jen and Uncle Matt hit the jackpot with this museum!

The rest of the time was spent closer to Aunt Jen and Uncle Matt's house.  The weather was iffy, but we did get in some stroller rides, a playground visit, and time putzing around the front yard on bikes.  Shockingly the kiddos all napped at the same time in the afternoon allowing ample cousin play time during the morning and late afternoon (and much needed down time for the adults)

Evie and Braylen thoroughly enjoyed a house full of new toys.

The trucks and other moving vehicles kept Braylen engaged for days.
He doesn't have many... yet

Some of the best "toys" are dogs.
Evie gave Guin commands all weekend.  

We gave them baths together two nights

Braylen- 11 months, Luke- 23 months, Evie- 29 months

Were three adults really necessary?  

Uncle Matt fried up a turkey for our Thanksgiving feast.

Could these two look any different?

After three nights of Braylen waking up the whole house multiple times a night, I was ready to get back to our own beds.  Daddy decided to sugar up Evie for the flight home

 We were almost those people on the plane ride back to Baltimore.  Braylen did not nap in the morning and was melting down very loudly as boarding began.  Everyone lined up was staring at me with my screaming child mentally noting to put on his/head headphones asap.  Jason and Evie boarded and I worked my magic in the terminal.  I was literally the last one on the plane... but with a sleeping baby in the Ergo.  Crisis averted.

Good-bye Raleigh!  Next time this
guy won't be the youngest one!