Our Annual trip to the Milwaukee Museum

Today, John and I took Tizita to the Milwaukee Museum for our annual visit. We loved taking the girls to the museum when they were growing up and we enjoy it just as much, if not more with Tizita.
These first two pictures were from our trip last year. Here is Tizita in the butterfly area and

here we are by the storyteller in the European village area. I cannot even believe that I wore the exact same outfit this year except for the shoes! Time to get some new clothes, I think.

Anyway on to our trip today.

We headed up to Oshkosh to pick up Tizita and from there we went to the museum. We started out in the Butterfly area. I think we all really enjoy that area. The butterflies were really active today with the warm sunshine streaming into their home. We spent about 20 minutes just enjoying the pretty butterflies.

Tizita studied up on some bugs after we left the butterflies.

We had a great lunch in the museum cafeteria.

Tiz wanted to go back into the butterly area, so we did just that. Here we are checking out a butterfly that landed on my finger.

We had to stop in the igloo. It is like a required stop when you go to the museum.

Here is the storyteller again. This time Tiz was checking out his nose for some reason.

Back in the butterfly area, this time checking out the cocoon.

We spent a long time in the Dinosaur area, too. I think that was probably Tizita's favorite. She and John spent about 15 minutes just looking at the giant T-Rex taking a bit out of the Triceratops.

We took a very quick trip through the Rain forest with a stop at the button that makes the howler monkey screech followed by another quick trip through the Streets of Old Milwaukee.

It was fun to see the museum through Tizita's eyes. We could tell how much more interested she was in all the things this year as compared to last year.

After we got back to Watertown, we had dinner and read books before Tiz fell quickly asleep.

It was a great, fun day.

On the way home, Tiz told us that they would probably get a sister this time since the boy didn't really work out so well. Out of the mouth of babes! I guess he really didn't work out all that well. She also said that when something not so good happens like it did with Natnael, then we have to find something good again. She said our day at the museum was the good thing. So simple, but so true.

We move on and wait for good things to come again.