MOA/Nickelodeon Universe

Elijah & Seth on the Flyboat ride (they're the two on the right side of the picture). This was the only time Seth got to go-the next time he tried it was a different ride operator who wouldn't let him go because he was a little too short. Elijah had already scanned his wristband and was getting on the ride when they told Seth he couldn't go, so I let Elijah go on the ride. Seth cried the entire time Elijah was on there-poor guy! Elijah loved the bumper cars! It was the ride he kept asking to go on over and over, but Seth was WAY to short and really wanted to go on it so Mommy and Daddy had to take turns bringing Elijah over to the bumper cars while Seth went on other rides.

Seth and Daddy on the balloon race.

Mommy and Elijah on the Balloon Race.

Daddy and Seth on Swiper's Sweeper

Mommy and Seth on Blue's Skidoo

Elijah got to meet Dora and Diego! Seth refused to go near them.

On the Balloon Race

Carousel

Seth and a Woody made out of Legos at the Lego Store

Seth with Nickelodeon Universe in the background

This time with Legoland in the background

Minnesota Children's Museum and Como Zoo

The water exhibits were their second favorite place to play. Mailmen! They walked around and delivered mail for a while.Elijah driving the bus.

Seth driving the bus.

The kitchen-their absolute favorite place in the museum.

Fireman! The boots were adult sized so he couldn't move at all without falling down.

Grocery shopping

They're both obsessed with traffic lights so here's a picture of them with one.Riding the bike in the Wizard Of Oz room.

I had to bribe him with letting him go back to the kitchen area to get him to go in the turtle...

After our picnic lunch at the Como Zoo. It was really hot so the boys wanted to leave after about an hour and a half.

Seth and the penguin checking each other out.

More Family Pics

Seth, Lib, & Elijah at Uncle Ben & Aunt Kirby's for Lyla's Baptism celebrationFinally-a picture of the four of us! Not the greatest, but there we all are.At the lake on Grandpa's boat. Elijah and Seth didn't like going fast-they hated the bouncing and the splashing. Libbie thought we should go really fast.Playing on the beach

Cousins

All the cousins on Mommy's side of the family!! This was taken at Libbie's party-Happy Birthday Lib!!

Seth's First ER Trip

We went to the water park tonight, and had only been there about half an hour when Seth fell and cut his chin on one of the slides. He was trying to hurry and go down the slide before me (even though he knows he always has to go after me so I can catch him in case he goes down face first, backwards, etc). Anyway, he slipped and cried a little, but seemed fine so we went down the slide. He went down again, and this time I noticed he had a little bit of blood dripping down his chest. I checked his face, neck, and chin, and sure enough he had a gaping cut on his chin. Elijah and Daddy stayed at the water park, and Seth and I headed to the ER. We had to wait awhile to be seen by the admitting nurse, and the whole time Seth kept asking to go back to the water park. After been seen by the admitting nurse, and being sent back to the waiting room, Seth thought we were done and threw a big fit when I told him we had to stay. After another 10 minutes or so, we were taken back by the nurse. She put some numbing gel on a gauze pad, and taped it to his chin. This made it so much easier to keep him occupied while keeping the gauze on-when Elijah got his stitches they had me hold the guaze on his face. Much easier to distract two busy hands when you don't have to hold something on their face! After a while the doctor came in, and said we could glue his wound with dermabond because it was a straight cut. They put a pillow under Seth so that his head was lower than his chest, making his chin easy to get to, and had me lay on Seth's check and hold his hands, which allowed me to talk to him through the whole thing. He screamed through the entire gluing, though I was able to ask him questions and get him to scream a little less. The doctor and nurse thought it was funny that he would scream and answer my question and go right back to screaming. They were also impressed that I knew all the answers to his questions :) I asked him things like did he want M&Ms or Skittles as a treat for being such a good boy (Skittles), what color bug juice did he want (Red), should we get Elijah a treat too (yes), and where should we go eat supper (Space Aliens). Since Chris and Elijah were still swimming, and Seth can't swim for 5-10 days, he and I went to Space Aliens to eat supper (we go to the ER at 6:20 and left at 7:40) and play games.
Here's Seth's chin-notice he's smiling for the picture... :) Still a very happy boy!He was loving posing for me-that never happens!RAWR!!He let Mommy get in on some picture too :

More Water Park Fun

Waiting for the bucket to dump-we had just gotten to the water park and were waiting for our pizza. Trying to run under the bucket while it dumps, but a little too scared to get quite far enough

Pizza! We had run some errands during the morning, and I tried to talk to boys into McDonald's or Burger King, but the only thing they wanted for lunch was pizza at the water park.

Seth eating his pizza. He picks off all the pepperoni and eats them before eating the rest of the pizza (kind of like how mom eats supreme pizza-all the toppings first, then the rest)Heading up the stairs

Seth covered his face most of the way up-took him a while to get to the top.Elijah going down the slide all by himself! I've been trying to talk him into going down the slide by himself for quite a while, but he would always tell me he'll go alone when he's 5. He started going up the stairs, and I asked him where he was going and he told me to go down the slide. YAY!

And of course whatever big brother does, Seth has to do too-weeee!!

Elijah on the green slide. Seth wouldn't try this one. Elijah was kind of funny on the green slide-most people go down it really fast, but Elijah would go really slow, and would end up stopping just before the end of the tunnel.Seth making a big splash! I had to stand at the end of the slide when he came down-he didn't always quite make it sitting up. One time he came down head first-not sure how that happened!

Posted this twice-oops! can't figure out how to delete it, and don't want to start over again. It's a cute pic though.The splash area with slidesThe slides

Going for a Walk