Ohio

Following our Indiana visit, we spent the rest of the week at my brother’s house in Ohio. We did a ton of things and had fun . . . and I took hardly any pictures. Too busy!

It was such a nice time being together with all the cousins and most of the family. I hope we get to do it again next year! We went swimming a lot (the pool is right across from Scott and Jill’s house) and went to a movie, mini-golfing, the children’s museum, and a Dayton Dragons’ baseball game. A great trip that went by too fast!

Matea trying her hand at golfing. 

Naw, lining up the balls is more fun . . .

And even better is throwing them in the water!

Eli was proud as a peacock to golf with “The Boys”

Cincinnati Children’s Museum and the museum complex rocks! There was an awesome cave section in the natural history museum, which I don’t have pictures of, that we explored. It felt just like going in real caves. Nathan and Eli LOVED it! And the kids really liked the children’s museum. We could have spent even more time there, not just the 5 hours we had.

Eli had a lot of fun in the ball area –they had different machines and ways to get the balls up in to a central bucket. When the bell rang the bucket dumped all the balls back out. FUN!

An exhibit which BOTH the kids could enjoy (a 5 year old and a 2 year old with only one parent in the museum was hard).

A worker came by and said sand on the floor was okay . . . a suggestion Matea took to heart. :)

They had a great water works area. WATERFALL!

Our spot at the Dragon’s game. This is about the only time Matea sat the whole game.

Matea people watched the rest of the game.

Eli with the boys, wearing a Dragon’s hat that Andrew gave him.

The thing that most fascinated Matea the whole week was Dante the dog. On previous trips she wasn’t too sure about him, but following her love of Sophie the farm dog, she transferred her obsession to Dante. I’m not sure he thought it was that great, but he was really good with her following him, staring at him, telling him where to go, what to do, and saying hello to him over and over and over again. It was REALLY cute! :) One morning she and Tori talked to Dante for quite a while when he was still in his cage. I captured some of their exchange on video and I think it is hilarious. Matea LOVES Dante, that’s for sure!