Hanging with the big kids

We've been very busy the past couple weeks and we had so much fun hanging out with Henry's older cousins, Lily and Nyle. They came to stay with Grandma and Grandpa Eichorst for a week and we were lucky enough to get in on some of the action. Most importantly (in my opinion) Henry took his first trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in order to tour the new Harry Potter Exhibit. John, Lily, Henry and I had a great time, even though several workers kept referring to Henry as a Mandrake and thought we were trying to swipe him from the exhibit (Harry Potter reference for those who that confused). Lily was sorted by the sorting hat into Ravenclaw and although Henry was a little too small for the sorting hat just yet, the young lady there claimed she could tell he was a Hufflepuff so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

We also took a fun trip to the Brookfield Zoo to see the dinosaur exhibit and Hank spent a lot of time looking around, but was unphased by the enormity of the giant lizards, he's a pretty tough kid. Not only did we hit up the zoo a couple times, a park and an icecream shop, but Henry also had his first trip to the sprinkler park with our friends Amy and Izzy. I walked him through a sprinkler a couple of times and although he was not quite giggling with glee, he was not totally opposed to it so we will make future attempts. The whole week with Henry's cousins was a great time and we'll miss them sooooo much until we get to see them again for Christmas.

I also had a brief look into my future when selling merchandise at The Wiggles concerts last Saturday and Sunday. Apparently these Aussie guys used to be a punk rock band called the cockroaches but realized that there was not much money in their future and so they decided to take out all of the swear words and sing about fruits, dancing, monkeys and other kid friendly things. The music wasn't terrible and I decided to get an album to see if this is something Henry might want to work into his music rotation so I'll keep you all posted on how it goes. I'm not too sure if I'm ready to imagine myself at one of these shows surrounded by over stimulated munchkins waving light wands just yet, I'm sort of hoping he wants to go to see Pearl Jam or something but I'll still give The Wiggles a shot for Hank's sake.
Anyway that is a less than brief update of what we've been up to so far in the month of August. I saw a few leaves on the ground and got excited thinking about pumpkin patches and apple picking......