Annie and Mommy's Day Out

So lately I've been feeling bad for Annie. Whenever baby decides to come out (any day now, kid), her whole little world is going to change. I'm sure she'll be fine after the adjustment. I don't harbor any resentment toward my siblings. I love them and don't wish they were never born (generally). And Annie will probably never remember life without her sister, anyway. But I do feel bad that our Annie/Mommy time is almost over. So this morning we hung out :) We watched some Mickey Mouse and Tigger & Pooh, then we ran some errands and then headed to the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum.

The museum was awesome. To all my friends with kids, we will go there when you come to visit. Annie loved it! She ran from activity to activity. She spent a ton of time at a fun water table playing. She was fascinated by all the activities with levers and buttons and steering wheels. We didn't even make it to the upper level, and I had to drag her out of there at naptime!

Here are tons of pictures of the fun:

The buttons made little lights go on on the car model. You have no idea how exciting this was.

Playing at the water table. She stood at this thing for what seemed like hours. She even figured out how to make the little water wheels work! This is also her concentrating face with the mouth slightly open. Funny. :)

I swear I didn't even mention the hat. She found it and put it on herself. I told her she could be like Grampy, and that seemed to please her.

She loved the ambulance. Maybe she'll be a paramedic one day.

It was a toss-up for favorite activity between the water table and this. It's a "code station." There was another one across the way where you were supposed to use the lights to send your friend a code word. But seeing as how we didn't have any friends and Annie can barely speak English let alone a secret code, we just pushed the buttons and pulled the levers. Annie was in love with it.