Our Portsmouth Adventures

Ma'am, please don't let him touch that. Right along with the huge chain that that he was having a ball pulling on. Once again...ma'am please don't let him do that. Yikes, what can we do........Climbing up the forbidden stairwell.We're big enough to play with the trains too, right!?!
Mommy, I told you I didn't want to ride the dumb train

Hmmm..can we install one of these in our house somewhere? This can be called the tantrum bubble!! Hey us mommies can use it too so we can have our PMS fits in it!!

They had a blast mailing letters over & over& over.....

Waiting for the train that never came...bless their little hearts!!

Bradley & Alexander working so hard to enclose themselves in a huge bubble. This is a really fun room and yes I did have a blast running and sliding across the slippery floor successfully without falling on my rear.Yep, that's my girl!!! Bradley proudly doing some of his own grocery shopping

Well Sue beat me to blogging about our day braving it thru the streets of Portsmouth. I'll just fill in the gaps, although she covered it pretty well. And mom since you already read Sue's this won't be new for you Ha! A trip to the Children's Museum in Portsmouth was the plan of the day and Bradley had never enjoyed it more. I don't know if it was because he was older or he had a buddy to share in on the fun. To start the trip Sue got a glimpse of the high pitched screams that my tiny precious little girl can yelp out. As I'm driving us there and back just praying that no ones eardrum was going to puncture Sue so graciously kept reaching back to pop in the pacifier. Sometimes it worked sometimes it didn't. Bradley did the same thing as a baby. I would always remind myself that no two children are the same as every mom says so that's what made me decide to have another one. As month 8 and 9 passed for Alayna I was like "WHEW!!....she's not going to be like that because that's when it started with him....sure enough around 10 months there she goes. I don't know how to describle it. Maybe like a pig squealing while it's being slaughtered to death. Anyway, thank God it's not as bad as it was with Bradley and it's mainly when we are in the car so whatever right!?!?

The kids did awesome in the museum and Alayna actually took a 20-30 minute catnap in the stroller. Everytime we were about to go we would look at each other and say "are you ready to go?" or "I'm ready if you are" and we just kept playing and pushing on. When we got to the little spot where there was a train track...you could push a button to hear the sound of a train coming closer and closer. Poor little Bradley & Alexander thought the train was actually going to come and they kept waiting and waiting.........and the train never came. They would keep looking or going back to that spot and waiting........Neither one of us really had the heart to tell them that the train was never going to come so we headed to the train room so they could see the electric ones instead. It was one of those mommy moments like Ooohhhhh........

So the adventure continued because we still didn't want to go home and YES, we were starving to say the least. We thought about going to this little cafe and quickly realized it was a little too fancy for us and just envisioned us all sitting in the middle of the resturaunt with a fancy chandlier on top of all of us. I don't know... I could just see Bradley sling shotting something at it and it falling on all of our heads. So what do we do.....we go and tear up a mexican resturaunt. I imagine what was going thru everyones head as we take our 4 kids in tow. The screams of Alaynas had me nervous to be interuppting everyone's lunch so I just kept throwing gerber puffs at her and realized when we were leaving she really wasn't eating too much just throwing them overboard. I still feel guilty about that mess. I just wanted to quickly escape. Aw yes, and the hiccups....Sue, couldn't even talk and between me mimicking her and laughing at the same time and that dreaded cackle that I inherited from my mom (sorry mom) once I really got going was enough to top the cake. She looks at me and says "don't you ever get the hiccups?" and I was like "of course I do" but I was thinking to myself "but certainly not like that" Has anyone heard Sue hiccup??

And continued.... to the light boat.....or whatever it was....Now Bradley screamed the whole walk there because he was "itchy" which is a story in itself... so off with the shirt...but they wouldn't let him in the other museum without a shirt.....Well then it's 100 degrees and Sue has Alexander in a long sleeve sweatshirt thing so his shirt was off by then too.

Sue saved me from being hauled off to the Portsmouth jail "(which might not have been so bad being it had a perfect view of the water like she had pointed out earlier) Anyway, I paniced as we were going out of the parking lot "Cash only" for parking....oh shoot I forgot about saving cash for parking....Sue says..."do ya'll take checks?" Yes, ma'am....YES!!!! we were free to go. Thanks a million Sue!!

Spontaneous days of just forgetting the normal routines turn out to be some of the best days (sometimes....but you have to be willing to risk it...right moms, which in our case it just worked) and at the end of it all we both realized it was just what we both needed. We had intervals of quiet moments to share heart thoughts and moments of laughing hysterically at the comical moments our kids can bring ...and ourselves for that matter. Sue does a great job at putting up with my quirky airheaded PMS moments and I think I do a good job at keeping her focused on one conversation at a time. Hmmm...No rabbit trailing allowed please!!! HA!

Friendships are priceless and each one adds something different and unique to our life when we allow it to take root. I say it's like a garen...no one flower is the same and each one has a uniqueness and beauty that adds so much to make it a beautiful place. There's is something to give and something to take away. Here's to all the friendships in our life whether they are near or far whether they are old or new that the Lord continues to grow and bless them all.