Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Around Jonesboro: ASU Museum

We are so lucky that Jonesboro has a super awesome museum and even luckier that it's on the Arkansas State campus.  Right behind Bobby's building actually.  So one day we checked out Bobby's office, had a quick lunch with him and then headed over to the museum.  There was so much to do and see that the kids didn't want to leave.

There were two different rooms when you first enter and one was filled with foam blocks and the other with tons of art supplies and puzzles.  I didn't think I was ever going to get the kids out of those rooms and into the actual museum.

Randomly the museum will host different exhibits and so this time we got to enjoy Mindbender Mansion.  There were four different "rooms" and each room had three puzzles that you had to solve.  Once you solved all three puzzles you used your answers to open the vault.  When you opened the vault you were given a clue.  Once you had all four clues you could get your picture made and received a certificate for completing Mindbender Mansion.  The kids had so much fun doing this.  I was so proud of them too because most of the puzzles were hard.

The rest of the museum was really interesting but we honestly sped through it because it was getting near Shiloh's nap time.  We're planning to go back another day and look at everything else.  One thing we did do was look for Howl -the stuffed Red Wolf.  He hides in a different place in the museum each day and when you find him you take a selfie with him in the background.  Post it on any social media and you're entered to win a prize.  Hannah & Samuel raced through looking for him but Amos & I found him first.







Sammy is working on making a roller coaster.

Hannah's princess tower.



Shiloh immediately crawled onto the table to eat crayons and do some coloring himself.



I'll openly admit it took me forever to figure this one out.  I'm sure my husband could have done it within seconds but...  I was so proud when I figured it out.



This was my fate on the Wheel O' Fate.  Rather appropriate.

 Amos & I found Howl!

The mastodon in the lobby.  Later this year there will be an even bigger dinosaur display!



Monday, March 21, 2016

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

In the past I've either completely forgotten about the Dr. Seuss birthday celebrations at our local library or else didn't want to drive all the way down the mountain in the middle of a child's nap time.  But since our library is literally three minutes down the road from our house I decided we'd join the festivities this year.

The story time didn't last too long, thankfully since Shiloh was all over the place!  After story time there were crafts, games and cupcakes.  Sammy & Amos really enjoyed the fish bowl game and Shiloh clearly loved the cupcakes.

It was super fun and we were all glad we made it.

--Story time--


 --Not impressed with the Cat in the Hat--

--Making a Wocket for our Pocket--
 --Making a hat--


--Completed Wocket in Your Pocket--
 --One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish--

--Basically you roll the die and get to put that number of fish in the bowl--











Saturday, March 19, 2016

I Heart These People







Just a side note:  Sammy played on the city basketball league this year and it definitely made us appreciate and miss Upward.  There are eight kids on his team but only half of them showed up for picture day.  These poor guys, they played so hard but only won one game out of six and then lost in the first round of the tournament.  But they had an amazing coach (who was so handsome!) and overall I think they had fun.

The Clark's Next Big Adventure

So much for keeping the blog updated this year 😂  The Clark family is embarking on another adventure though and it's too big not to doc...