Fun with Auntie Peg!

On Tuesday, our first full day in Charleston, we enjoyed our rooftop breakfast then met Auntie Peg at the Children's Museum of the Lowcountry. It was LOTS of fun. We played with golf balls (to see physics at work) for a while, then headed into the water room.

There James donned a smock (or not) and had fun moving boats and trucks throughout a Charleston-esque model. Mag and I had fun operating the lock to make boats travel up and down. Making it rain was also great fun.

The next room was a shrimp boat turned pirate ship that James quite enjoyed captaining. The boots certainly added to his delight.

Then it was off to the "grocery store" and then the infant and toddler fun space where James sent the dump truck down the slide several times. He also still talks about getting buried in blocks by Daddy and Auntie Peg.

We went outside for a snack (and saw some neat exhibits like giant chimes) then headed in for toddler yoga. James started off hanging back from the group, sitting in a folding chair (where he did do the poses).

After a bit he got down and joined Auntie Peg on her mat. He was super cute doing the poses and has been talking about yoga a lot since we've been home. He was even doing poses in his crib yesterday morning when Dan went in to get him up for the day!

After yoga, we headed into the very cool Medieval castle, then headed off to Auntie Peg's cool house. Unfortunately, James wouldn't eat anything we were offering for lunch and turned into a complete pumpkin before passing out in Mommy's arms and sleeping on Carolan's bed for an hour or so. Upon his waking, we presented him with a beautiful plate of food which Daddy told him not to eat. This reverse psychology method has now become Daddy's new favorite way of dealing with a willful two year old ("Whatever you do, James, do NOT eat that broccoli.").

That night we headed out to see the River Dogs with Auntie Peg. James was thrilled to be at "The Old! Ball! Game!" and wanted to go right out onto the field. He became enamored with Charlie and especially liked getting "licked" by him. He also found the (person dressed as a) bunny and the "big fat green truck" entertaining. I don't remember exactly what either of these two between the innings events were, but he's been talking about them practically every day since!

When he started to get squirmy, I took him to the Kids' Zone where he played in the "bouncy thing." He wanted to go up the slide, but was too small. Or so we thought! A really, really nice "big boy" (who has later been referred to as "that big green boy" and "that big fat boy") helped James get up the "mountain" once, and James was THRILLED.

After that, the big boy went off to other activities, but James kept trying to climb the mountain. I have to tell you, he didn't give up! After many a fall, he made it back to the top! I was so amazed!

Meanwhile back in the stands, Dan caught a fly ball and was hit by another! We had a wonderful time at the old ball game!