Grandma's Visit & A Trip To Chattanooga, TN

The boys and I loved having Grandma in town for a week. Someone new to play with is always better than just Mommy!

They enjoyed puzzles...

and books....

and craft time!

We tried to get Ethan and Wyatt involved in making pumpkin people pictures, but they wanted NOTHING to do with it. Everything went in Wyatt's mouth and Ethan just tossed it all off the table.

So Grandma and Jack had fun with a project for just the two of them.

While they did crafts, I tried to use up more of our apples. And we all enjoyed apple fritters. Unfortunately, the recipe only called for one apple...so I still have plenty left.

We then decided to spend our Saturday up in Chattanooga, TN. It's an easy two hour drive and there is so much to do up there. We started at the aquarium.

And the boys loved it!

They have two sides, a river side and an ocean side. We started off on the ocean side.

The boys got to touch all kinds of sea creatures.

And we enjoyed the butterfly exhibit.

Then it was on to the penguins. Ethan really seemed to enjoy them.

Wyatt liked the sharks.

Jack inside an exhibit.

There was so much to see and Ethan loved walking all over the place. But he was hard to keep track of so we had to occasionally put him in the stroller, which he did not like. I love how independent he has become and how mobile - but he doesn't like to hold your hand so it can be tough to keep him in one spot for long!

Then we moved on to the river side.

Jason really liked this side, but we spent so much time on the first side that the boys started to really slow down on this side.

Do you see the big alligator?

Wyatt will show you!

We had a fun day and had hoped to make it over to the Children's Museum but we were too tired after our aquarium adventure. At least we have something fun to do next time we go up there.

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