Children's Museum and other assorted fun

These two play together very well, reminiscent of our own kids' play times - with many of the very same toys! 

Early morning play while Nana made french toast (not as good as Micah's mommy's)

We traced our shadows early this morning - were they ever tall!  Later today at the splash park, we looked down and had very short stubby shadows in the late afternoon.  This all goes along with a story we will read tomorrow, The King Without a Shadow.  It all helps us to learn that God has no shadow and never changes as we, and our own shadows, do.  

Caroline's shadow in pink, Papa's in yellow

We headed to our favorite Indy place, the Children's Museum!  First stop, the slide.  Later when the kids raced, they decided they tied.  

The carousel music called, so off we went to the top, Papa and Nana trying to keep up with the speeding kids running up 4 sets of ramps. [At the end of our last ride of the day, the kids ran down and beat Nana and Papa on the elevator!]

Our first early morning carousel ride fit right in with our "Forever Rely on God" theme, as the animal featured was a frog!

 

Oh, do these kids love the interactive mechanical exhibits.  Micah is constantly turning wheels, levers, whatever will make the little balls continue to move.  Caroline carefully feeds balls to the simple machines, trying to figure out what they will do next.  It takes an awful lot of concentration.  

 We stopped at a little free "library" on Zionsville's Main Street - "leave a book, take a book".  Naturally Micah choose alligators and Caroline a story with a brightly colored cover.  

We finally had warm enough weather with no thunder to head for the Splash Park.  Nice that it includes a park as well.  

We took a trip to the airport to send up some sky lanterns.  We also got to see Papa's plane.  Our first lantern was wildly successful, going well past the interstate and (according to at least 2 pilots), about 1000 feet up.  We could see the red lantern until it was just a tiny speck in the air.  Second one not so great - too much wind, beginning to sprinkle, and it couldn't even get enough lift to clear the first big tree.  So, pink tissue in the tree. This is the only picture I got. 

We picked beans to go with our dinner.  Caroline taught us an unusual new way to eat raspberries. 

We had more fun eating popcorn than we did with movie watching, so we skipped to the end to watch the "good part".  We were all pretty tired so looking forward to good sleep tonight and wearing our t-shirts for our last day of camp tomorrow.