Art Days

 The Austin Symphony hosts Children's Art Days in the Park.  We took Kylie to see the Teddy Bear Picnic.  For kids who are easily sensitivity overloaded this place is a nightmare.  People walking around playing instruments, clowns, balloons, huge crowds, $.10 lemonade (there isn't even a cent sign anymore on computer!).  Its wild.  We got there early and got balloon animals.

 Then sat and enjoyed the storyteller, clown, woodwind quartet and Teddy Bear Music.  There was a contest about the bears the kids brought and Lydia got one of the cutest bears!

 Then across the street was a tent with crafts (we skipped it), face (and arm) painting, more lemonade and a creek they played along.

 A few weeks later we met some friends for the Singing Zoologist.  There is an 'instrument petting zoo' I used my clarinet skills to replace a reed!  And the girls LOVED the violins.  Gloria played it for about 10 minutes and kept saying it was her favorite.  More balloon animals and fun music.

 This time we wore water shoes and they got soaked!

 On a Thursday when its free we went to the Blanton, the art museum on UT.  It was crowded (I had gone on a weekday before with an international friend while the girls were in MDO and it was so calm and quiet) which is good for taking kids.  We quickly went through the rooms with a scavenger hunt (great idea Carrie) of colors, shapes and pictures.

Besides the gift shop, this was their favorite because you could touch the pennies.  Gloria also enjoyed going around the statue room saying-he is wearing a leaf, he is not wearing a leaf!  As we left Lydia remarked-I am surprised they didn't have the Mona Lisa!  Though they did have a Picasso drawing.