tree house fun

some catch-up blogging since time seems to be eluding me lately. last tuesday for playgroup we headed up to ogden to the children's tree house museum. they have recently rebuilt this wonderful place and i cannot say enough about how great it was so hang out there for an afternoon. there were so many fun rooms to play in that i can't say for certain which was ethan's favorite but he definitely could've played in the train room the entire time. i'm looking into getting one of these for the office now so i can actually get some work done while he plays! they have this great fire engine that the kids can climb all over and even dress up in official fireman uniforms! of course the moms had to take advantage of this photo-op, the boys were all just too cute in their little hats and jackets. other big hits were the music room with all the instraments to try out, the oval office where sam got to be the president and the great toddler area where you could just play or dress up and pretend to be a mouse in a house. there was a large fish tank built into the wall which contained the "characters" from finding nemo, ethan's most favorite thing in the whole world right now. every time "dory" swam by he would squeal and point and say, doughy, doughy, doughy! the other kids moved on to other areas but ethan wanted to just stand and stare and dory for about twenty minutes. it was great to see the excitement in his face, he really thought it was dory he was meeting. another big hit was the land of the knights area which included a puppet stage and life size chess pieces which ethan enjoyed only because he could knock them over. sam enjoyed the regular chess set with big pieces that were fun to examine closely.drew and sam took the challenge of pulling the sword out of the stone very seriously but alas, were unsuccessful in their quest to become king of england. i turned around in time to see ethan trying to dig something out of the bottom of this dress up chest.i love that his feet don't touch the floor but he doesn't seem to mind too much. getting all five boys in a picture and smiling was nothing short of a miracle but it was worth it. ethan and i ended up buying a pass so we could come back as much as we wanted and we definitely will. it was a fantastic day!

**have you been to the tree house museum?

what's your trick for getting five toddlers to smile at once?**