A Week With the Shellenbargers Part 2!

I'm running about two months behind on blogging, so I'm going to try to hit some of the highlights of the end of summer and the beginning of fall.  I never finished blogging about our family trip to DE so here's more on our trip from the end of August.

Before the Jones's took off on their move to Paris, we took off  for some adventure at the Delaware Children's Museum. 

Zoe and Nathan inside this huge climbing matrix. 

Look out world, Zoe is into construction!

Dylan saying "cheese" while he is learning about how various animals build their homes.

The museum had so many different pretend stations.  This is the grocery store.

There was a craft room where Zoe created a masterpiece alongside Daddy and Nicole.

Dylan painting his masterpiece.  Check out that heart he painted.  Impressive!

The cousins playing with play dough in the craft room.

After the morning at the museum, we spent the afternoon and evening going to Philadelphia to visit Mike, Chelsea and Grant.  For dinner we went to a really neat kid friendly place called The Treehouse.  

Grant playing at The Treehouse. 

Zoe making faces at herself.  Cute!

Our time with everyone went by so fast.  It seemed like we had just arrived when it was time to take one last picture with cousins Nathan and Kennan before they loaded up for their van trip to NYC to board their plane to France.

 

The next day, Grandad, Grandma, Uncle Ivan and us headed to the Museum of Natural History.  

Grandad and Dylan

Dylan is fascinated by clam shells so he was quick to ask to take a picture with this one.

Zoe is showing how "strong" she is and telling me how she is going to build a "strong" house.

Dylan with his "strong" tree house.

Dylan and Zoe could have stayed in the Tree House exhibit for hours! 

Some of D&Z's favorite things are always climbing on the statues.

Or a tree is even better to climb!

If Dylan does it, Zoe must do it!  Thankfully she was close to the ground!