Princess 'Moneyville'

We were all set to spend a wonderful weekend with beloved cousins until Maddie started to feel pretty crappy on Saturday. She woke up telling me her throat hurt but didn't complain much about it, but by the time I was done with work she just wasn't herself. Faith and Abrielle were so upset that we couldn't go for our visit with cousins. Faith was almost in tears!

Our sweet Sharon invited us over for soup that afternoon, and it seemed to help Maddie's throat. We made a huge pot of shrimp corn chowder yesterday (and added clams to it), and it has helped our sick kids. Oh, yes.. it is kidS now. Faith started saying today how she wasn't feeling that great, and now I've been hearing her cough throughout the night. Those 1st colds of the year are something else!

Anyway, my girlfriends had been so excited to go dress up in their princess outfits to see their cousins (Rapunzel coronation this weekend) that we told them they could have a "princess day" here yesterday. They were asking the second they woke up yesterday to put on their dresses already!

They'd been looking forward all week to the new temporary exhibit at the museum- "Moneyville." They just LOVED it.

Maddie and Faith's favorite part was the station where you could make and print out your own money, and they collectively all spent the most time down at the little market area (which I figured they would!). Their second favorite area was a station where you could be a bank teller. Some of the stations were for much older kids, but the majority of the stations were perfect. There was even a station that Maddie really enjoyed where you could "balance" a budget!

This was the play market area where they spent most of their time:

Thanks to the library pass, the museum is always free which is even sweeter.