No rest for the weary

Lilly closes for an end-of-year holiday from Christmas Day to New Year's Day, and most people {including me} take additional vacation to round out the time off to about two weeks. In the past, this has been a nice down-time for me...just to relax and recharge a bit. However, Carter is a BUSY little boy, and there are scarcely enough not counting the Christmas tree toys here to occupy his time and energy.

That said, today we along with, I swear, at least a third of the children in the greater Indianapolis area went to the Children's Museum. This was Carter's first trip to the museum and he LOVED it. They have a playscape for children under 5, and it was perfect. There were water tables, sand tables, slides, climbers, a kitchen, and a building area. He was in hog heaven. We stayed and played for two hours, at which point Carter's eyes started to glaze over and I witnessed the long, "I'm-ready-for-naptime" blinks.

We came home and both took naps!

Playing in the water table

The sand table

Playing in the garden

Riding the raft like a big boy