Disconnected

When we returned from vacation we had no phone connection and therefore no DSL connection so my last vacation post is a bit delayed. 

Our last day in North Carolina we took the kids to the Children's Museum in Winston Salem.  The kids had visited the museum the last time we were in North Carolina and Mackenzie remembered the beanstalk that she got to climb.  The kids really enjoyed their time there and I think they got to see pretty much everything.  I love the picture below of Mackenzie reading to a baby doll.  It is really the perfect shot of Mackenzie.  She is going to be a great mom one day.

After the museum we took the kids to McDonald's and we got a huge compliment from a father of four who told us the kids were behaving very well and that we were very brave to take 4 preschoolers to McDonald's.  The kids really did behave very well.  We then took them to the set of the movie Tina was working on and they all got ice cream (sorbet for Isaac).

Saturday morning the Phillips family headed home. The kids did really well during the long drive home, thanks in many ways to the DVD players.  We stopped for a potty and lunch break at Tamarack in West Virginia.  I had stopped there with Tina and the boys when we drove up earlier this year.  They have a small playground outside with cement cheese.  When I was a kid we played on cement cheese, so it was very nostalgic for me.

There were other cement climbing items there as well and Mackenzie thought that this one was pretty cool as well:

The kids have had a blast being home.  They have spent a lot of time in the yard and in the play room. 

On Sunday we had dinner at Linda and Butch's with the Ohio cousins and the kids had their first floats (Isaac's made with Tofutti). 

They also played ball with their cousins.  All of the kids except Isaac were playing a form of tag/dodge ball combo where the goal was to stay away from the ball.  Isaac was playing take away where his goal was to get the ball.  It was quite humorous until Isaac finally stopped playing, crossed his arms and said, "They're not sharing".