ArtPrize

It was a beautiful fall weekend in Grand Rapids! On Friday, we stayed in so Phil and Will could have a sleepover in the basement. We ordered pizza and watched Cars. They made it through the entire movie... Will asking questions non-stop through the whole thing. They both fell asleep around 9pm and stayed in the basement the whole night. Will loves "camping out" with daddy!

On Saturday morning, we took the boys to swim class. Alex still loved the water. He giggled through the whole class. Will did a great job as well. He really likes his teacher and is getting much more confident in the water. They ventured off the stairs and Will held on to the side and "walked" along the edge quite a ways. He practiced floating and scooping water. We are definitely going to continue these lessons and may even have his teacher do a few private lessons in the spring.

Phil had a past alumni club presidents' retreat out at the lake so the boys and I walked up to town for dinner. They were both very well behaved at Olga's.

On Sunday, we stayed in our PJs and played around the house for a while. When Alex went down for his nap, Phil and Will rode up to the playground. When Alex woke up, we picked them up and we went downtown to walk around ArtPrize some more. We went into the GRAM (it was so nice to have a membership and be able to skip the long line) and saw several of the top 10 entries. We went down by the river and Will rand up and down the hills.

Playing with clay outside the Children's Museum

Look at the TRex Mom made!

Before he smushed his dino

Outside the Gerald R. Ford Museum

One of the Top 25 entries

Will's new chair - so cute!

Playing with Grandpa

Alex found the hat (and shoe) in one of our baskets