Wishing Chair

Nashville Library and Wishing Chair productions put on regular puppet shows in the children's Theater at the Library. We had the privilege of seeing The Stonecutter during our trip to Nashville. I took some video, but later found this one on Youtube, that is the full show. Its bunraku and the singing and naration are the Professor and Mary Mary from storyime. Very talented folks. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/E0lnxwFMmeI

Nashville is so COOL!

Tuesday in Nashville we set out with a list of things to do for the week and checked off nearly half! We started with storytime at the Nashville library. I have been to a lot of great storytimes, but this had to be the best! They have two characters, The Proffessor and Mary Mary who come out in costume and alternate singing, drawing, and reading stories, and there are also three puppets, somewhat reminiscent of Mr. Rogers. Oh, and juggling, the Professor juggles! Then we tracked down a place called Phillips Toy Mart. The coolest toy store EVER! They carried all our favorites, like Manhattan Toys, Hape, Haba, Corolle dolls, Plan Toys, Melissa and Doug, Kumon, Usborne, etc. I don't know which of us had the most fun. Rebecca came out with a doll and doll carrier, similar to the ones I use with Levi and for Levi I got the Melissa and Doug walker toy with alligators that chomp up and down when you push. He thinks he's hot stuff now. That would have been a great day, but it got better. Rebecca and I shared some Chinese while Levi got in a nap and then we went to Monkey's Treehouse. An indoor playground, which was great for a rainy Tuesday.

So much to do!

 Special area for the under two crowd.

The perfect princess accesory. Check out CharmingCharlie.com they have accesories for EVERY color and style imaginable. Also their prices are reasonable and $5 shipping no matter your order. The store was like a candy store for Rebecca and I.

On Thursday we found another indoor playplace. This one is in Franklin and was beyond amazing. You can come and go as you please all day, the kids have a path to ride bikes indoors, coffee bar and free wifi for mom....Evansville NEEDS one! We took a break from play to hit Cool Springs mall.....more amazing shopping, and then went back for a little more play in the afternoon.

                                    The week also held several trips to Whole Foods, Opry Mills Mall, Cece's frozen yogurt and a myriad of other neat shops, and little adventures. Oh, and we also ate at a place with a 200,000 gallon aquarium in the restaurant with sharks, sting rays, and TWO marine biologist floating around amongst the coral reef and hundreds of small reef fish. AMAZING week!

The Hermitge

The week before last Aaron had a class in Nashville on Thermal Imgaing cameras. It was a great class, he learned a lot and didn't have to study in the evenings, which is what the little ones and I liked best. We did all sorts of fun things while he was gone during the day and in the evenings we did even more fun stuff! On Monday we got into town early and visited the Hermitage. Aaron and I found it fascinating......Rebecca not so much. She tried running on the gravel path and fell down skinning her knee really badly. Since then that is the only thing she talks about.....I can't believe she wasn't impressed with the 176 year old wallpaper, still on the walls and still looking amazing!

A picture for my sister....its a Meerschaum pipe!!!.....with intricate carving on the stem. LOL

 It looks like such a pleasant kitchen, but I bet it wasn't any fun cooking in the summer with that giant fireplace!

Her princess pose.

He's truly not quite as ornery as he looks!

Ressurection Sunday

Here we are all dressed up for church this morning. I wasn't going to get everyone new stuff for Easter, but then yesterday I decided that, yes, I do like to look coordinated. Kind of last minute, but we all like blue so it worked out great. ;-)