It's Here...It's finally here!!!

I took advantage that the kids were out of school on Friday and went to a local children's museum. The kids had a great time. I didn't end up taking many pictures because I was holding Will , but we ended up staying a lot longer than I thought we would. In fact, after being there for 3 1/2 hours, the only reason we left was because everyone was starving.

Even Will got in on some baby fun!!
As any good southerner knows, Chick-fil-A is the best fast-food restaurant. So it was a horrible surprise that there wasn't a Chick-fil-A in all of Illinois!!! I lived an entire 18 months without one but now we have one here. Do you here the choir of angels singing?

Since it is new to the state, there was a lady standing out front asking if patrons wanted menu's. I said" Oh no, we know exactly what we want, we are from Atlanta!" She then told everyone in line that we were professionals.

The kids loved their yummy lunches and so did I. I think it tasted even a little better than normal.

The chicken...ooooohhhh!!

The lemonade..ahhhh!!!

I resisted the urge to take a family picture at lunch.

Navy Pier

One thing I have learned after living in Chicago for a little over a month is always bring a coat. Always! The weather here changes very, very quickly. I've never seen anything like it. This particular Saturday it was supposed to be clear and 70 degrees. We thought that it would be a good day to go to the Navy Pier in downtown Chicago. We woke that morning to gray skies and a little rain but we thought it would blow off by mid day and it wasn't too cold. We drove down instead of taking the train just because it was the first time we had been their and wanted to get the lay of the land. This is the Chicago skyline coming into town.

To the left is Lake Michigan and in front is the John Hancock building.

Navy Pier

Me & Olivia

We planned on going to the Children's Museum first and since the weather wasn't great we headed over. The kids had a great time! This is Ben in a net climbing from one floor to the second floor. The rest of us took the stairs.

Olivia the artist

The mad scientist

The view from the windows of the museum.

Daddy helping the kids build a house

Olivia got bored of building the house and decided to accessorize!

Ben being eaten by a dinosaur

This is Ben & Olivia's shadows with butterflies and bugs.

There was an area for music and dancing. Olivia loved it, Ben was a little standoffish at first.

But then Ben caved and joined the fun

Olivia hanging around

We had spent a couple of hours at the Museum and thought we would go check out all of the other things at Navy Pier. We walked outside and it was raining, very windy and the temperature had dropped about 30 degrees!! So we opted to go watch the IMAX 3-D Under the Sea show and hoped that it would get better.

After the show, the weather was just as bad so we called it a day. Getting back to the car was hilarious. It was so windy and cold that we ran all the way back to the parking deck. It felt like the kids were going to blow away. We drove down Michigan Avenue (The Magnificent Mile) and past the beautiful Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park. As we were driving home we passed a temperature sign that read 40 degrees! So much for 70.