Hooray for Holidays!

This is the last year that big guy will have a whole week out of school for Thanksgiving. Next year he will be in school Monday and Tuesday. So we are celebrating this week! I LOVE having the boys home for a few days. Yesterday we went downtown to Imagine It, the Children's Museum of Atlanta. They had a Curious George exhibit that I wanted the boys to see...they are both big fans of George! We had the most wonderful time! Big guy was all over the place, wanting to try everything at least once and usually over and over again! The George exhibit was really cute. There were lots of hands-on experiences...big guy got to direct a wind machine to make windmills turn, create a shadow play with his hands, and build with Tinkertoys! They also had a really cute "Curiosity" musical that both boys loved. I promise that little guy was having a lot more fun than he looks like in the picture! There was a train track suspended from the museum's ceiling, and little guy would have been perfectly happy to sit there and watch it go around all day! Big guy and I did talk him into trying out some of the other stuff in the museum too! After the boys had played the morning away, we stopped by Atlanta landmark the Varsity for lunch. Both boys made a meal out of nothing but Varsity french fries. I can't complain too much, though...they are REALLY good fries! We had the most wonderful day together...they are really just fun, cool kids to hang out with!

Today, we drove to Buckhead to keep our family tradition of riding the Pink Pig at Lenox Square. The Pink Pig is an Atlanta holiday tradition dating back to the mid-50's. Macy's (or Rich's, as it used to be known) sets up a little train shaped like, well, a pink pig! The pig train pulls you through a giant cutout storybook that tells the story of Priscilla the Pink Pig. Apparently this has been a popular family tradition for many years in Atlanta, but we just started visiting last year. We knew that we had to take little guy this year as he is completely obsessed with trains! The line for the Pink Pig is always VERY long, and the ride itself is pretty short! But the kids don't seem to mind the wait, and it's just one of those things that we look forward to as a family. Daddy was able to sneak away from the office and join us for a quick ride, so we were all pretty excited about that! We don't have anything on the agenda tomorrow except for Christmas decorating...hope the kids aren't too bored after two fun days!