The Milwaukee Art Museum and Stone Fire Pizza-Our Weekend with Tizita

We just spent the most enjoyable weekend with Tizita.

Since we won our annual membership to the Milwaukee Art Museum, we have wanted to take Tiz to see the museum.

This is the weekend we did just that.

John and I went to pick her up on Friday night.

Poor Soli cried so hard because she wanted to come with us, too, but there is no way that a two year old would enjoy the art museum.

On our way to pick Tiz up, we stopped in Hartford to pick up our pottery from last weekend.

I think that Tizita's horse and mug and Mallory's mug were actually the best finished products.

At any rate, the process was so much fun that the final product is not all that important, right?

After we left with Tizita, we stopped at Culver's for some supper, then on to Watertown for some serious TV watching.  Since Tiz does not have a TV at home, she always enjoys her TV time here.

 On Saturday, we woke up to donuts from Grandpa.

After breakfast, we left for the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Tiz loved the museum and we were very impressed with the way she looked at things and took it all in.

 She and Grandpa were discussing the glass exhibit.

 We took photos by some of her favorite works.

 We spent some time in the kids' art studio where Tiz watercolored a beautiful still life of the pink flowers you see in the above photo.

 She also made valentines and tissue paper flowers.

 We visited the chair park and tried out all the chairs.

 Tiz took this photo in front of an interesting piece.

 We had a snack of soda and muffins. 

Tiz never gets to have soda with her mama and papa, so we always like to treat her to soda when she is with us.

 Checking out the calatrava area overlooking a very frozen Lake Michigan.

 This is a lab where kids can do many hands on activities.

Here grandpa and Tiz are setting the stage for a big production.

 Tiz and I worked on some linear art work in the lab, too.

 The famous sculpture in the entrance to the museum.

 We bought Tiz and A to Z book with pieces from the museum.

We hunted for the pictures and objects from the book.

We did find most of them.

 Tiz had a sketch pad and she often sat down and sketched some of her favorite paintings.

Here are some pictures that Tiz and I worked on in the lab.

 After the museum we went to Stone Fire Pizza.

We enjoyed our buffet and all the fun activities in the game room.

Tiz loved the big ball area.

 I enjoyed deal or no deal.

 Tiz rode a few rides and of course,

there was enough skee ball to satisfy all of us.

It was a great, fun day, sure to be remembered for a long time by all of us.

Today after church, we took Tiz back.

Now we are counting the days until our next adventure.