It's art week! This week has been spent focusing on the finer things in life. On Monday, we went to Kaleidoscope. This amazingly wonderful free arts and crafts place run by Hallmark. They basically send all of their extra paper to this place so that kids can do crafts with it.

The girls made crowns and glasses and puzzles and all kinds of stuff. Not as cool as The Please Touch Museum, but it'll do.

After Kaleidoscope, we spent another day at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. The highlight of the trip was definitely the mummy, or the mommy as Meriahna called it. The girls went to look at the thing four separate times in our two hour trip. They found it so cool and creepy.

When I was little, my mom would take us to the museum, and we would each get to buy one postcard with a painting or sculpture on it. Then we would go around the museum and try to find our piece of art. Sydney picked out this picture and was able to find it all by herself. She said her favorite part about her picture was the trees because they give us air. Yes, yes they do.

Here's Meriahna with her fruit buffet. She and Syd were talking in the car afterward, and she said that she loved looking at the paintings because they came to life in her mind, and she felt like she was inside of them. Yeah, um she's nine. Art teacher on our hands perhaps?

Classic. Contemplating life's difficulties. Meriahna was very moved throughout the whole tour by all the artwork portraying Jesus on the cross. She just couldn't comprehend why people would do that to such a "good guy." It was very interesting to see her begin to grapple with her beliefs. Sydney, on the other hand, was thinking about going to Subway for lunch....And you may notice that they both have on jean shorts under their skirts. I told them it might be cold in the museum, and they should bring a sweater. They decided to wear two t-shirts and jean shorts under their skirts in case they got cold. They were nice and cozy.