Museum Madness

Today I went with Jocelyn, Kenleigh, and their grandmother to an Art Museum.
While their grandma sat with her friends and talked, I took the girls around the little exhibit.
Earlier we just browsed the first room and the guards got onto us for have a little sippy cup out of a bag, even though it had a lid. So when we went to walk through more of the exhibit. Joce had her lemonade in her little sippy cup. I told Joce she had better finish it before we go in if she wants to look at the pretty pictures. Kenleigh was hanging onto one of the stroller handles saying “We can’t take the drink in there. The guard will get mad. Joce, you can't take the drink in there.” I told her she was right and encouraged Jocelyn to drink a little faster. Kenleigh was getting very antsy. Finally, after much asking if she was done and if I could put her cup in the bag Joce relented to giving me her lemonade. I stored it under the stroller to please the guards.
We would walk around from painting to painting and Kenleigh would say, not in a library tone “Read that one!” pointing to the sign next to the painting that talked about it. I would read the title if I could pronounce it and give a short little summary of what I thought it was about. I would occasionally ask them what they thought was going on in the painting but it didn’t last long with Kenleigh. I would start to say the title on some of them then she would scurry off to the next painting and I would hear “Read this one!” I could feel the guards eyes on us as we moved from painting to painting and room to room. No doubt waiting to find something to get on to us about.
Every time Kenleigh would holler out “Whats this one say?” or “Read that one.” I would try and shh her I was afraid the guards would be like the kids are to noisy, kick them out! Forutnately they never had to. Jocelyn would occasionally yell out something too and I’d try and calmly tell her to be quiet. She just wanted to be out of the stroller but if I let her out then she’d be running all over the place.
Kids not getting a nap makes them not always the pleasant person to be around. I have learned. And those two little girls didn’t have one so of course as the day went on their would be little squabbles here and there but overall it was a fun outing.