Zimmer Museum

Today we went to the Zimmer Museum which is on Wilshire/San Vicente inside the Jewish Federation Center.  They had to screen my bags before I could go in.


We LOVE this museum.  I would say it is by far the best children's museum for kids 0-5.  Today we spent 3 nonstop hours there.  We are all definitely tired.  Here is a look at our day.

 We start at the airplane.  

Both Teo and Lola are standing on the wing.

Lola decides she will be the pilot.

This is all Bee wants to do . . . climb up the stairs, climb down the stairs, climb up the stairs, climb down the stairs, 

until forever.

More stairs

 Teo is sitting at their magnet board.  You can put magnets together to make animals.

Teo has just discovered Hopscotch and loves it!

 Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posie,

 Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down!

Playing at the water table.

Here is the boat my kids can spend hours playing in.  It is surrounded by blue balls to swim in.  Teo spends his whole time jumping into the water and then climbing back into the boat to do it all again.

Get Ready, Set . . . 

 JUMP!

Bee spends HER whole time swimming in the balls, 

then throwing them outside onto the floor.

I spend MY whole time picking the balls up 

and putting them back in the water.

As I continued to call LolaBee's name and tell her to "keep the balls inside the boat!" a woman came up to me and said, "My daughter's name is LolaBee too." "You have a daughter named LolaBee?" I said as if I heard her wrong."Yes. I heard you calling your daughter LolaBee and my daughter has the same name."

I still don't really believe her.  How can anyone else have the name, "LolaBee?" I didn't ask her the spelling, but that certainly has to be different!  

Starlight Bowl

Gil and I celebrated July 4th at the Starlight Bowl tonight.  We had such a great time.  The evening began with the Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by a Motown band called Stone Soul. I thought they were a lot of fun. They had a sectioned off area down by where the band plays where people can go dance, so we spent most of our time down there.  It was so fun to be outside dancing with my hubby.  After the band finished, they put on a fantastic firework show.  Since the Starlight Bowl is in Burbank, it took us 10 minutes to get home.  Such a great night.  Must do it again! 

Time to Play Dress-Up

Tanner's creation . . . the more things he can get on Teo the better.

What else can I paint with Sidewalk Chalk?

I guess Teo wanted to be a little more creative with his sidewalk chalk.  Bee was happy to comply. 

Haircuts

Monday we all went to Julie's house for haircuts.  It's great to have my own personal salon that serves cookies with each hair cut and and optional pool swim to boot. Thanks, Julie!

 LOLA BEFORE

Lola would always look down to avoid eye contact when Julie came over to cut the front of her hair.  She didn't move at all, so good, but did do quite a bit of whinning like a little puppy.

LOLA AFTER

So happy to be done!

TEO BEFORE - 

I forgot to get a BEFORE shot so this will have to do!

TEO AFTER 

This was our first hair cut sans crying.  Hooray!  

He asked for "no vibrating - just scissors!" 

Vibrating, of course, meant he didn't want the clippers.

In this picture I asked him to smile.  This is what he did.

Then he said, "Why don't we do a funny face?"  I said ok.

TANNER BEFORE

 TANNER AFTER

At home with our new haircuts 

and homemade popsicles 

Great ending to a great day.