Moot Thoughts & Musings

Today was warmish and rainy with a cool breeze. It felt snuggly. I had this strange urge to go to the Art Museum. Something about the fall color and snugliness of it all was inspiring. Taking Ellis to the Art Museum is something I've been meaning to do for awhile; it's been too long. We brought our friends Maddie and Her Mom. I think they were the only children in the entire museum, and I was relieved for the majority attitude towards them welcoming, helpful, and warm.* Their enjoyment of the museum was moderate. I think they enjoyed looking at some pictures. We had fun pointing out features of different paintings: yellow flower, guy riding on horsey, lady wearing red hat, etc. They were distracted by eachother and their own tiredness. It was a spur of the moment trip; next time I should go in the morning. We took our snacks to the cafe where the moms splurged on drinks and the kids unwound a little, driving home in the dusky canopied by the fall glory.

I'm really excited about bringing the Philadelphia Art Museum into our life this winter. I think I will buy an individual membership, which will be affordable with Christmas money, and if Chris wants to go will pay each time for him. The membership basically pays for itself in four visits, and I expect I will have more time to go than he does. Ellis is still free for quite some time. yay!! And they have some stuff that i'm eager to do with E, like "Tours for Tots" with a different theme each month.** We live in a great city, and I feel like I should be taking better advantage of it.

* I think I probably got the most amusing reaction to E's CI yet. The coat check girl (who was a little hipster) saw the little red light blinking that let's me know if it's working said, "what a cool sparkly thing on his head!" I really doubt she knew what a CI was. It made me laugh. Now the CI is the Cool Sparkly Thing.
** Grrr. Just looked at the schedule. EVERY-SINGLE-thing is scheduled on a Sunday. How inflexible!!!