Day 4 (Yeah, I’m finally back to blogging about our trip)

 

After all the driving, we were so thrilled to take Marky to the Chicago Children’s Museum. Never have we ever loved spending $12 on a 2 yr old’s admission until Friday, October 7th, 2011. Seriously the best money we spent the whole trip.

This was our first room, and man, we were in there so long I had time to take a few pictures, nurse Callie (in the awesome and oh-so-convenient nursing chair), awkwardly talk to people while I was nursing Callie and watch about 45 people come and go. This room was a camping room. There was a cabin (fully-stocked kitchen), a tent, a small hiking trail and this little stream to catch fish to put on the fake fire.

Then we said goodbye to the camping room and HELLO the Transportation Room.

He got to fill the red car with gas, help wash the blue car and do a few rounds of ‘Wheels on the Bus.’ Along the way, Mr. Bear found himself in a few mirrors and got very friendly…

….See, he was making out with himself. It was really sweet.

You can see by his cheeks that he was HOT. The midwest was having their Indian Summer and boy oh boy, it was SOOOO WARM!! What made it worse is that the week before it was cold. In fact, I think the whole month before it had been cold. So they were not prepared to crank the a.c. up. And we were over prepared with cold weather clothes.

Unfortunately, after 3 days of driving and being exhausted, our cameras were not fully charged. Our phones were barely charged and I was so sweaty that I didn’t care anymore. But we did get some video footage of Marky playing the water works area. He had so much fun. While he was splashing, I went to ask for directions and saw a camera crew. I told they guy if they were looking to shoot a kid who was having a blast and SUPER cute, they should go film Marky. They kinda rolled their eyes and I walked the other direction. Upon returning, they walked in the water works room, saw us all laughing at Marky and said “is this your son?” I said “Yep! See what I mean?” They said “Really, can we film him?” I said “Sure!” After about 5 minutes worth of footage, they had us sign consent forms. He could be the sweet and excited face of Chicago Tourism.

After a great day at the Navy Pier (where the Museum is located) we went back to the hotel and Mark left for his concert. That night, Marky, Callie and I cruised the streets of Chicago. Marky really loved the lights of the city. After he sat in his stroller for a while, I had no choice but to take him for a walk. Big city life really does have perks.