The Dead President's...almost

This is the coolest thing. It is just sitting on the side of the freeway (US 288). It is on the way to see Courtney just south of downtown Houston on the way to Pearland. It's in the middle of an empty field. They appear to be made of fiberglass. I have wanted to stop for a long time to get pictures. I'm usually asleep and so we haven't stopped. This trip I was awake and remembered. There is no plaque or anything to show why they are there or why they chose these particular presidents.

George H.W. Bush, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson, and John F. Kennedy.

Houston Children's Museum

Our visit with Courtney this month included the Houston Children's Museum. I decided the Brown's needed more cultural and educational experiences! It was so much fun. The next several posts show you our day.


This is a crazy robot that was made entirely out of old telephones. It was at least 15 feet tall. Check out the nose! It is a red phone handle. It's head moved from side to side.

We'll make a farm boy out of him yet! He was a natural. Got milk? In this case it was water.

Enjoying a puppet show.

Kidz TV Station

This exhibit was a TV station complete with an anchor desk, cameras, teleprompters with scripts and costumes to dress up in. They even had scripts for interview different people and different news stories. Braeden liked the "behind the scenes" stuff...like the "control desk"...big surprise.

Grocery Shopping

I think this exhibit was the kids' favorite. It was set up like a grocery store (HEB sponsered...a chain in Texas) They had shopping baskets, lots of plastic food and cash registers. They spent a lot of time here. They loved it.

More...Houston Children's Museum

Fun with Hats...

Face painting...what a cute little kitty! Meow...

Kylie was a good sport and let Lindsey paint her face...

This was a '67 (maybe) Ford Mustang that the kids could sit it and play with.

Courtney said she wants a car just like this one when she gets old enough to drive. I thought "ok" since they had it all tore apart and it wasn't goin' anywhere. It would be the perfert car for her! I wanted one of these cars when I was in High School. My dad wouldn't consider it because he said it would cost too much to fix it up. I got a 1970 Pontiac Firebird instead. It was my brothers. I had it repainted (orange/red) and reupolstered. It was fun to drive. Glad I don't have it now. I think it got about 2 miles to the gallon. It was a Formula 400!

This was a game that you had to arrange the tiles so that the numbers added up to "15" in all directions. It took Sam about 10 seconds. He was very reluctant to let me take his picture. I think that he thinks he is getting too old.

This was a contraption game, kind of like an etch-a-sketch. There were two wheels that you used to guide the blue square with the ping pong balls around the trail trying to avoid the holes. It was fun.

Hats...

More Hats....What fun you can have with a hat!

Reading Together

I thought this was so cute. Kylie was reading a story to Lindsey. I was painting the living room and they were laying in the middle of the entry way with their heads together reading a book. Kylie has always loved to read since she was a baby. She must get that from her Grandma Bagley. (The blue stuff on Lindsey's cheek is paint left from "face painting"...that will be a later post)

Lindsey - Preschool Days

Lindsey has been enjoying every minute of preschool. Here are some fun pictures of her days at preschool. I was her teacher last week. We had a lot of fun. (If I do say so myself).


This was the day I taught. We learned about the letter H....H is for hopscotch. We also played Hungry, Hungry Hippos. I took advantage of the fact that Hutto is obsessed with Hippos and tried to incorporate a lot of Hippo stuff in it. There is even a book called "I want a Hippopotumus for Christmas!"

Can you tell what letter? E is for Elephant!

Happy Birthday, Charity, 20 yrs old!

We went to Red Robin for Charity and my birthday dinner. I guess she was tired.


Lindsey wanted a picture with the "big chicken" at Red Robin and of course Braeden wanted in too!

Charity and I usually share a cake because our birthdays are only 2 days apart. But Charity was working on the night of my birthday. Steve decided to make eclairs for Charity's birthday. Somehow he was able to put 20 candles in those 2 little eclairs and made them look like some kind of aracnid! They were good anyway!

Happy Birthday, Suzanne, Only 29!

This is what I received for my birthday. Steve said he got up at 5:00am so he could go the the grocery store on Saturday so he could get all of this stuff for my birthday. (My birthday was Saturday)...I think it's a guy thing to wait until the last minute but I thought it was great! The part with the KitKat actually says "KittyKat"...Steve changed it. He wants a cat but I don't. It was really cute and the kids got a kick out of it.