An Outing to BYU and the Bean Museum

I love seeing these boys reading and playing well together ❤

I've been able to take a few days off recently and I wanted to hang out with my friend (and coworker) Emily and her kids. I called her up and she invited us to tag along with her sister-in-laws to the Bean Museum on BYU's campus. The boys were so excited to go on a fun outing!

  

After the museum we headed over to the Wilk for lunch.

Perfectly timed picture. It looks like our little B has a mullet! 🤣

  

Of course we had to check out the bookstore too. I love that these boys love to read. Star Wars books of course.

Aaaaand...they're out!

Oh I should make a note about my super inquisitive 4 year old son. On the way down to Provo we were listening to the boys current favorite song, "Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Nolan started asking me some questions. I don't remember all of them or how it even started (although it had to have been something in the song), but it's like every time I tried to answer one of his questions in a way that brought him comfort or tried to teach him a gospel principle or even just end the conversation it brought up another question in his little mind and it kept getting heavier and heavier and I was thinking, "what is happening here?!" haha.

For instance I remember him asking, "What does grace mean?" (what 4 yr old asks that?!) and "Why do people have to die?" I don't remember how we got on that subject but I remember telling him in so many words that it's part of Heavenly Father's plan. So then he of course asked, "Why is it part of Heavenly Father's plan?" and "But, I don't want to die, I'm only 4!" So I said, "Oh no honey, you have a long time to live. You know Granky? He is almost 100 years old! And once, a long time ago, he was a little 4 year old boy just like you." I thought I satisfied him with that and we could get off this dark subject haha, but he then asked, "Will I live to be a million?" Me: "Well no, most people don't live much longer than 100." Then he basically asked me in 4 year old speak what the average age is that people die.

Omg, I am 100% out of my league raising this child 😂