A Day With Aunt Kellie

On Wednesday the boys and I drove up to see my sister, Kellie, and her family in Tacoma. We made it just in time to watch my nephew, Zachary, wrestle. Nik was very excited to see Zach and wanted to sit right by him on the bleachers in between matches. Lukas just wanted to roll around on the sweaty, disgusting mats and lick them. Mmmmmm. Zach did very well and won his first match in seconds. His second match was a bit tougher as the opponent outweighed him by 15 pounds, but he fought hard and gave the guy a good workout.
The next morning Kellie and I took the boys on the LINK (train) downtown to go to the Children's Museum. As most of you know, Nik is obsessed with trains, so this was super cool!

It was a beautiful, cold day.

Waiting for the train.

Luke eyeballing everyone on the train. He has become quite leery of strangers and if anyone looks at him he sticks out his lower lip and puts his head down and pouts. It really is cute:)

They had fun crawling through tunnels and hanging "fish" up to dry at a Native American camp.

Then we went to the "store" where Lukas sorted fruit and had fun pushing the grocery basket all over. Nik had fun playing cashier and screaming at the little girl who took "his" money. The mamas had to break that one up.

Aunt Kellie helping him make a heat impression with his hand.

Then Nik donned an apron and painted away. He was very focused and seemed to be concentrating hard on his picture, this one in particular. Funny, it looked just like all the other 7 paintings he did, but apparently, to him, there was something special.

It is always fun to go to Kellies as she is really good at seeking out interesting and inexpensive activities for us to do. I need her to plan my fun outings here in Portland as I never seem to be able to find anything that is both interesting and inexpensive.