The Health Adventure

This past Sunday I took off with my friend Stacey and our "bible boys", Gabriel, Noah, Jonathan, and Matthew, to the Health Adventure in Asheville, NC. It is so wonderful to have some buddies for the boys to play with here. And they had such a good time in Health Adventure... but they wore us mammas OUT! Stacey and I decided that the best room there was the room that was all closed off for the younger kids. The boys could play and play and play... and Stacey and I were able to take a breather without worrying about where they were. They even had two rocking chairs for us tired mammas! I did catch them sitting down at one point though. It was a Car exhibit where they had to buckle up and watch a movie that took them thru what it was like to be in a car crash... haha, only BOYS would be soooo fascinated with a car crash.

Light Sabers

My sister brought the boys light sabers when she visited last week. They were SO excited and have spent so much time everyday since then battling each other in the back yard. Once they even took them to the park with papaw. Papaw had intended to play frisbee with them, but when they couldn't seem to get the hang of throwing the frisbee they came up with a new plan. Papaw would throw the "alien space ships" and Noah and Gabriel would protect the planet with their light sabers. And no worries when little noah missed the frisbee... Papaw would assure him that he didn't miss what actually happened is the "aliens just got scared and flew away from him".

Hendersonville Model Railroad

The boys and I went off with Papaw to visit the Hendersonville Model Railroad. It is set up inside the old Hendersonville Station house. There are 3 rooms that are filled wall to wall with this model railroad. It is absolutely extraordinary!! There is so much detail in every inch of this model. 6 or 7 tracks at least that are all intertwining, Tunnels, lakes, towns... but what is more amazing is the detail inbetween all of that. There are waterfalls and rivers with fly fisherman alongside. Luggage carts filled with little suitcases belonging to the waiting travelers at the station. Construction sites with little men on ladders. You can almost see the busyness of the little people in all the different settings. I Looooved it!! and so did the boys. Though as little boys are they were most impressed with the thomas train. There was only one Thomas train and he was going really fast. As we looked at all the details every few minutes the boys would scream, " IT'S THOMAS" as he went zooming by.... and a few minutes later, "IT'S THOMAS"... and again "IT's THOMAS" as if it were the very first time they had seen him EVERYTIME!!! I just love THAT