Last Week, Monday, and Tuesday

I took Jake and Maggie to the museum. We met up with a new group and they were kinda. . . overbearing. We just wanted to go to the giant kid room and I was chasing Jake all over the place. Oy vey!

Hey, have y'all seen this kid that ate baby Jake?

So handsome!

I could NOT keep him off this thing.

We happened to be there when they did a lecture about Van de Graaff generator. This thing:

It's the thing that you can touch and it will make your hair stand up. I thought Maggie would love seeing me do that but it scared her. She was quite upset. She kept saying, That's my mommy.

So Maggie woke up very early on Saturday and I told her to go back to sleep. I woke up a little while later and she was sitting by the bed reading her comic books. She was going through each page very carefully. I guess she likes them.

Monday we all (Grandpa, Grandmo, Aunt Laurie, and Ella) went to visit Memaw, who is finally home from the hospital. At one point Grandpa asked, Who wants to go play in the backyard? Maggie said, Not me. . . maybe me. . . me! She said the whole thing in under 10 seconds.

We went to lunch after we left and I got this picture:

I told them they were accidental twinkies (note the matching pants).

Later that afternoon we went to see Dr. Moody, her eye doctor. We had to wait for a while and when he opened the door, Maggie said (loudly), Ugh finally! He was really nice about it but jeez, I was embarrassed.

Her eye sight has improved. She now has perfect depth perception.

Today we met up with some new friends at River Legacy park. We started out in the Nature Center and then hiked on the trails. It was great. We saw a huge turtle crossing the road. He had a long tail and spikes (little spikes) down the center of his shell and his tail. He did snap at the 7 year old boy we were with when he touched him a little too aggressively.

We hiked back to the Nature Center and played for a long time. They had taken apart a bee and you could look at it under a microscope, which Maggie did for a long time.

After I exercised on the treadmill (which Mags calls the treadmeal) tonight, Maggie asked to go on it too. I made her get on correctly and put it on the lowest setting but she talked about her exercising the rest of the night. She told me she'll need to exercise "right quick" in the morning.