Day 4: Visit to the Art Museum

Today we took the girls to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery here in Buffalo. Fridays it is free from 3-9pm so we decided to give it a shot. Kate has been learning lots about art in school so now she is really into art museums. She must have asked if we were going 50 times today and 50 more in the last week (we thought about going last week but it didn't work out so she's been lobbying since then). When we went to the museum she insisted that I walk around with her and read her each piece's title and artist. But all the girls enjoyed the museum today.


This museum had quite of variety of works. There was a giant jack-in-the-beanstalkesque set of giant table and chairs. We all really liked that. There also were two huge sculptures made entirely of hair. The pictures are above. The other two pictures are a couple of other sculptures from the same exhibit that the girls really liked. We definitely saw some interesting things. They had a whole gallery displaying more abstract art and the girls really liked all the bright colors. The girls' hands down favorite though was the sculpture at the end that was just for kids to climb on with live jazz music playing in the background. I guess that just goes to show that hands on is always the most popular. Anyway it was a good trip. Kate is already lobbying us to go back next week. We'll see.


The other thing that I discovered today is that Emma really needs her naps. I didn't have her lay down this afternoon because we wanted to go to the museum and it was in the middle of her naptime. But about an hour after she usually lays down, she went crazy. She went from crying hysterically about something little to running around the house chasing her sisters or bugging them and back to crying. I don't if she needs naps so she can stay calm or so I don't go crazy, but she won't be missing another one soon.