Grandkid Day

Every year my parents make a day of spending time with the grandkids. For the last couple of years they've been taking the kids to the zoo but this year they changed it up. They got rid of their grandparent pass at the zoo and instead got a grandparent membership at Thanksgiving Point. They broke it up into two different days. Since we had swim lessons in the morning we met them later in the day. They started at the butterfly biosphere, had lunch, then moved onto the farm country, dinosaur museum and ended at the children's curiosity museum. We missed the first two parts and met them at the farm country. The kids had a good swim lesson in the meantime and then we headed home to get Danny and the babies. The girls were still sleeping so we waited a little while for them to get a good nap before we woke them up and headed towards Thanksgiving Point. We told the kids we could get Wendy's so before entering the Farm Country we stopped and had a little picnic outside of it.

We were just at Thanksgiving Point a week ago but the kids were still so excited to go back. Grant wasn't thrilled about starting at the Farm Country because that's his least favorite part of Thanksgiving Point but he still did good. Hudson caught me by surprise when he said he wanted to ride a horse this time. I was internally shocked because this is the same kid that is scared of a puppy. He got on the horse though and did so well. His horse's name was Blondie and Addie got her dream of riding on Flint again. She didn't want any other horse and specifically asked for him. When the ride was over she jumped right off as if she was a pro doing this for the longest time.

We then went to the dinosaur museum. Up until now we have always avoided the digging pit. Because we tend avoid going on the weekends it's usually empty and we've always been able to tell the kids that the digging part was closed haha. Not this time. They even asked before we got there if they would be able to dig today. I told them yes because I knew with all their cousins there and it being a Saturday that it was sure to be full of kids and they would absolutely know it wasn't closed. I'm not sure why I'm not a fan of the kids playing in the sand but they loved it. I love that they easily accepted when we told them it was time to go. Maybe that's why I've always avoided that section before, besides the fact that I envision them getting so dirty but also because I want to avoid meltdowns when we say all done. That wasn't the case though. They did really well getting out with zero issues. Maybe it also helps that all their cousins were being told the same thing. It was a great day.

Rylee was getting tired.

We didn't join the rest of the group for the Curiosity Museum because we needed to head back home. I'm teaching Sunday School tomorrow and I'm not entirely prepared for it. The kids all also needed showers because we didn't have time for that after swimming lessons this morning. It's nice that we have a family membership ourselves because we're able to go to Thanksgiving Point whenever we want. Hopefully they have something similar to this in Texas. All I know is that we will for sure be coming back many times before we move far away.