"There's another plane!"

A couple of days ago, Diana did the cutest thing! I had decided to fill her baby bathtub with water during her bath (I usually keep the plug open and let the water drain) and she loved it. She splashed and splashed, pausing briefly to smile from time to time.

Yesterday I decided to let Diana have a nibble of my chocolate croissant. She seemed very disappointed that Amelia and I were eating and she was not, so I thought I'd let her have a tiny bite. Next thing I know, the chocolate croissant is a crumbly, damp mass of goo and Diana's face is smeared with chocolate. It was hilarious. I was very disappointed I didn't have a camera.

Fact is, I have no idea where my camera is. It seems to have vanished into thin air. How will I manage the blog with no photographs to back up my stories?

Today I took the girls with me to Travis Air Force Base so that I could get a new military ID card. Amelia slept on the way to the base and was a bit moody when we reached the Visitor Center. She cheered up when I told her we could see planes on the base.

I'm not sure what Amelia thought an air base would look like, but she didn't want to believe we were on base as we drove around. She could not wait to see airplanes up close. A huge C17(?) conducted touch-and-go exercises nearby, but Amelia wanted to be in an airplane.

She was a very good girl waiting in the office while I got my card. I asked the helpful man at the office where we could see some planes and he suggested we visit the Air Force museum. The museum on base was very cool. Outside the small museum building was a huge parking lot full of air planes of all varieties and sizes. Some of the planes had tires taller than Amelia. Every where we looked there was another plane.

Then we went inside where they had MORE planes both on the ground and hanging from the ceiling. Everywhere we looked there was a plane, or a model plane, or a picture of a plane. Amelia loved it. She repeated over and over again, "There's another plane!" They even had a small glider hanging from the ceiling piloted by a monkey in a flight jacket that reminded Amelia of her Curious George plane and pilot.

I finally got tired of not having a camera and bought a "fun saver" at the gift shop. I took pictures of Amelia and Diana here and there inside and outside the museum. Of course, since I used an actual camera with film I will have to wait until the pictures are both developed and scanned before I can share them here.

One last story about the museum before I go. Very near closing time Amelia asked to go back outside. We went outside and started looking at the airplanes parked around the building again ("There's another plane!") until Amelia decided to go back indoors. Unfortunately, the museum was closed and its doors were locked. I tried to explain this to Amelia, but she wouldn't believe it until we tried the doors for ourselves. The doors wouldn't budge, and Amelia became very disappointed.

After a while we started to move toward our car, but Amelia wanted to try one more time at getting back into the museum. She put her hands on the stroller holding her baby sister and steered us back to the locked door (making Diana laugh). She was even more disappointed the second time the door wouldn't open.

All-in-all I'd have to say that we had a really good day and Amelia LOVED the Air Museum. She couldn't wait to tell daddy all about it when he got home from work. Maybe we can bring her back there again, soon.

Lisa