Out and About

Despite getting sick and Keith flying out to San Diego the last few weeks of the month, we had plenty of fun times out and about for the month.

FREDDIE'S SING-A-LONG-

I found a great restaurant with an outdoor patio that has a couple come and perform a kid's sing-a-long show every Tuesday night. Avery was one of the first kids to jump on the dance floor when they started playing:
But, as always, Avery found it difficult to follow the rules. This was her, "I'm sad- are you sure I can only have two stuffed animals at a time?" look: And while it may look like she's enjoying reaching out for the bubbles in this picture, she actually just followed around the performer, begging her to give up the fancy bubble blowing toy:
She decided to take a bit of a breather during the "Put the Animal on Your Head" song:

"THE PIER" AT LAKE TRAVIS-

We also found a cool little restuarant on a pier off of Travis Lake. Although the place was still closed when we got there, Avery had fun feeding the ducks and the fish, and we definitely plan to come back for one of the restuarant's live music shows:

The Typical Addie Shot- always content sitting and taking it all in:

THE AUSTIN MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER-

Thanks to my sister, we found out about a small nature center with a pretend dinosaur diggining pit down in Zilker Park. Avery was a bit hesitant to go through the cave portion of the first exhibit:

But then thought over the pros and cons of going through the cave:

And decided we should definitely press on:

Avery was insistent on stopping at each of the mini-zoo habitats and having Keith help her find the animal:

And the Typical Addie Shot:

Once we got to the dinosaur pit to "dig for dinosaur bones," Avery decided to bark out orders for Keith to dig in the hot sun while keeping herslef cool in the shade:

But she eventually decided that perhaps helping dig was more fun:

And afterwards, we headed a few minutes down the road to sit out on the patio at Freddie's for a bite to eat while Avery got a chance to burn a little more energy:

And the Typical Addie Shot- I overhear people comment sometimes on how sad she looks when we're out and about, but she really just seems to enjoy taking it all in a state of mellow content:

LIBERTY PARK-

I stumbled across a little playground right off of Brushy Creek near the library. Avery enjoyed picking out books at the library, but she was definitely thrilled to stop off here afterwards for some more physical activity:

THE RANDOM FESTIVAL-

There's also tons of fun kid festivals going on during the weekends. I took the girls to a nearby street festival on a particularly cool and breezy day. Avery's favorite part was definitely the bouncy thingamajig:

But she also thoroughly enjoyed the music tent:

Luckily I didn't bring much cash with me, so that this face couldn't dupe me into spending any money once we ran out of free activities to do:

THE BRUSHY CREEK TRAILS-

There's a huge trail that winds around Brushy Creek for about ten miles. Our original plan was to trek to the water park area, but that was a bit farther down than we realized, so we settled for stopping at a small playground before heading back:

And the Typical Addie Shot-

Addie definitely enjoyed our stop off for barbecue on the way home: