When we left off last time, we were getting trounced in Quizzler by my sister. The following day, we went to the Nashville Adventure Science Center. I was getting pinged with emails and calls the whole time, so I probably shouldn’t have gone, but man sometimes my kids need to see me at stuff. So I went. And I’m glad I did!
The group! 
Making (tsunami) waves 
Little boys, big tv 
In the (stationary) ambulance 
Little kids’ section 
Who you callin’ little kid? I’m a big boy 
Climbed the treehouse 
Moonwalker! 
Getting strapped in 
Harness time 
Family watched from above 
Here they go 
Moonwalking! 
Space . . . 
Lunchtime 
Nana and her littlest boy 
Dance Dance Revolution 
The kids’ turn to dance 
Playing the Grossology gameshow
We had a good time. We headed home for dinner, and then turned around and headed out to the drive-in to watch Hotel Transylvania, III – one of the worst movies we’ve ever seen/slept through. But it was still fun – a pile of kids in the back!
Kid Pile 
Oh man, it was bad
The next day (I’m not sure what day we’re on at this point – I think Friday?), my sister brought over a project she together for the kids. She did this once before – it was definitely more successful this time, as the kids were better at breaking it apart.
Hard at work 
Using whatever tool was avaiable 
The aunts came to the rescue with some warmed water 
Sledgehammer 
They attempted throwing chunks on the ground to try to break it up 
See the layers? 
Throwing the goat 
Pecking away 
Big guy almost free 
Chip chip chip 
Cold water also helped – and the scrub brush 
Spade 
Help, mama! 
Getting the teeny ones 
Even little boys helped 
Rosie the riveter
That afternoon, we made a movie! The shortness of the movie is not a good representation of just how loooooooong it took to make. But it was tons of fun – the neighbor kids joined in, Jack wrote it with the help of his aunt, Jack also directed, I produced, and everyone in the family acted.
The next day, everybody but us left for home. The Prof and the two littlest boys also took off for Indiana to visit his family for a week, leaving just Jack and me. I slept for hours that day, exhausted by overwork, and then went out to cute Franklin, TN for dinner. A magician (who is a lawyer by day!) came by and did some tricks, blowing Jack’s mind.
Then on Sunday, I flew home alone, leaving Jack to spend some alone time with my parents, to get some focused attention on math practice.
Then I was home alone for a week. Which is good, because I was at work til 11pm almost every night. Yikes!