Cool and crazy pictures!

We have been having fun lately! We have been to the Smith Playhouse a couple of times lately. Here are Easton and Justin on a rug sliding down the big wooden slide. Easton used to be scared of it, but he ran right up to the top last time.
Here is flooding right by our old apartment. We saw the pictures on the news and couldn't believe it. They closed a bunch of schools and businesses that day b/c so many roads were flooded and b/c of the mudslides! Crazy!

Justin is pretty proud of this picture! There have been some crazy storms lately!

Is Justin a Fun Guy?

Our family went to a Mushroom Festival last weekend. There is a town just outside Philly that produces 60% of the mushrooms in the U.S. It was basically a fair or carnival, but in addition to the regular carnival food there were all kinds of foods with mushrooms in them.

It was very popular! Look closely and all you can see between the tents are heads.

They had a tent showing different mushroom types and how they grow.

Some mushroom art

Read the sign

Here I am eating a mushroom ice cream bar. You have to try everything once, right? It was actually good! It tasted mostly like vanilla! I also had the most delicious mushroom mac & cheese!

For a mushroom lover like me, it was a great day!

Anomaly

Starting a couple of weeks ago was a very strange week for the east coast. An earthquake and hurricane in one week! Both are very rare here in Philly, so to have both in one week was crazy! Everyone was freaking out. I went to the grocery store 2 days before the hurricane and it had the longest lines I have ever seen! I had to wait in the parking lot next to someone's car to get a cart cause they were all in use. Luckily there was not very much damage in our area besides some trees down.

There was at least one bright spot, my parents came to visit! We took Easton to the park a couple of times.
Such a lovely butt shot, but he just got out of the bath and he could hear the rain and wind outside, so he wanted to see. Because of hurricane season we have had a ton of rain lately and I am tired of it. It is so hard to entertain a child inside all day.
We went to the children's museum. Philly has so much beautiful architecture! Even the children's museum is so ornate and beautiful! Too nice for a children's museum. I wish I could have captured all the detail.

Activities at the museum: They had this little home where the kids could plant carrots in the garden.

This was in the hospital section. There are doctors' kits and baby patients to practice on.

Easton loved the grocery store section. We had to keep putting food back, so he could fit more in his cart!
Easton loved these snap together squares in the craft room!
These are the "shrinking" doors from Alice and Wonderland. They also had the hedge maze, and the Mad Hatter's table.

They also have a transportation room where the kids can be a bus driver, fill a car with gas, get in a monorail, etc. the room has a huge mural of downtown Philly! It's really impressive!