Saturday

What I thought would be a quiet, perhaps even a little boring, weekend has already started filling up. This morning, Mike and I took the kids into Chicago to meet up with some old law school friends who are in town this weekend. Heidi and Max live in New York, and we don't often see them. You know you're in a different stage of life when you realize the last time you saw someone was prior to one of their children being born. We tend to measure our lives in child birthing cycles now, I guess.

Their sweet curly-haired daughter is three and Anna immediately adopted her. Handholding, chit-chatting, and hugs and kisses. It was the closest Anna will get to babysitting in the near future and she couldn't get enough!

After a quick brunch, we walked around Millennium Park and visited the Bean. The Jazz Festival was in full set-up mode so we steered ourselves through the vendors and into the full lawn of the concert area. The kids ran til they got sticky and sweaty and we sat and chatted.

Our friends had to scoot up to the northern burbs for some wedding festivities so we decided to swing by the Art Institute. Mike's parents gave us a family membership for Christmas and we've used it several times. A Magritte special exhibit had been on our to-do list for awhile and we finally got to see it today. Anna begged to visit the Thorne Miniature Rooms and we bought her a book (surprise!) in the gift shop from the 68 rooms series, which is loosely based on the rooms in the basement of the Art Institute.

My feet were aching after all the walking. Thankfully, we are headed for an evening of leftovers and Star Wars...