What a great evening

While the kids were watching TV yesterday, we saw an commercial for the RI Children's museum. The boys were so excited and asked if we could go. I said I would find out about it and they day went on. While looking at the website, I found that certain Friday's a month were free from 5-8. Just so happens that last night was one of those nights, so we decided to go check it out. It is smaller than the ones we are used to, but everything they had was new to us and things we have not seem before, so that was great! The favorite thing among all three of them was the water room. We spent a lot of time in there. We did both floors twice we were having so much fun!

When we were done we were all hungry and it was at least 45 minutes till we got back home and it was already 6:30, so we tried to find a place to eat. Not too far from the museum is a HUGE mall that has lots of restaurants. We chose Cheesecake Factory, and prayed that all three would behave. The last time we took any kid there, Tyler was about 12 months and threw a plate across the room and it shattered! The wait was about 30 minutes, so Keith took the kids across the street to a park and the capitol building. They had a blast climbing the marble steps of the capital and it really made the time go fast for them. We talked to the boys a lot about using soft voices and behaving in the restaurant. To our surprise, all three were as perfect as we could have hoped! Even Evelyn was not her usual squaky self! She just sat in her high chair and pointed to what she wanted! Tyler had grilled cheese, Henry had cheese pizza and Evelyn had grilled chicken and veggies. They each ate half of their meals, as did I, so we all have lunch today too! When we were leaving, we were telling the kids how proud of them we were and Tyler told us that he loved that place to much that he wants to go there for his Birthday Dinner!

We had to walk through the mall to get back to our car, and since we were so happy with their behavior, we got them ice cream cones in the food court. It was really late by then, 8:30, so I ran into children's place and got all three of them new jammies. We changed their clothes before we left and all three were sound asleep by the time we got to the intrastate! I am so proud of them and their good behavior. It was definitely one of the best nights we have had in a really long time!