How did you spend your Bastille Day weekend?

So its not quite Bastille Day yet but this is the unofficial Bastille Day weekend. So as we say in southern Louisiana Happy Fête Nationale Y'all! We spent part of our day at the Louisiana Children's Museum Yet another reason why we love New Orleans is the Louisiana Children's Museum (LCM) . We have a year membership to the LCM and decided that it should be our every Saturday field trip. There is an awesome toddler room with every toy you could imagine for toddlers. Emma can just go explore and be a toddler with out us being to worried about safety and stuff. The rest of the LCM is a kind of discovery place/edventure sort of place with a New Orleans theme. You got the Port of New Orleans, a streetcar, a creole cottage and Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood (I know, I'm not sure how that fit in either, but its fun). Its also got the good ole' dicovery stuff (ramps, levers, etc.). Here are some pictures of our fun time.

growl! says the dinosaur

Look at all these toys!

Puzzle pieces or items to bang together..hmm depends on my mood.

I love puppet shows..Here let me try!

It's my Mom!

"Emma give Mommy kisses"

Enough sitting and loving lets ride!

Did I mention i just came from Itsy Bitsy Yoga. DOWNWARD DOG!

Here I am! I was in the cabinet!!!

I'm Driving a Freightship.

Hey Mom, Watch out!

oooo...Bubbles!

Hold on Dad, I want to see if I'm bigger than this Bubble. Maybe if I poke the bubble it will get shorter!

What a day.. Time to relax on Mr. Rodgers porch swing.

Well armed Garbage truck

So Sarah and I were driving to work on Claiborne, and turned down Alvar to cut down to St. Claude (road our office is on). As we turned I discovered there was a garbage truck in front of us. So I prepared for the worst, A/C on recirculate, foot on the break to prepare for sudden stops. Well the garbage truck picked up 1 can on the whole street, weird! We get to a red light and one of the Garbage men (boy really) jumped off and ran to the front of the garbage truck. Well Sarah and I are admiring how proud we were that the remaing Garbage worker was working hard as a trash man and not off in some gang or robbing people. About the time those words left my mouth the Garbage boy reaches over to the side of the truck and grabs something off then runs to the front of the truck. "Was that a gun!?!?" Sarah and I ask at the same time. Sure enough he comes back around to the back of the truck holding a hand gun and stands there playing with it like it was no big deal. Oh my! People are so desinsitized that playing with a gun at work, in the middle of the street, with a car behind you, is no big deal.