Moments with the McNamaras: Word Girl

For the past 3-4 months while our house was being built and we were in the rental house we didn’t have cable/satellite TV for the first time in like 7 years. While Susie and I felt like we were missing “all our shows” the kids on the other hand fell in love with PBS. It was one of the 4-5 channels we got. We were so used to having the Disney channel, Nick Jr., etc. that we never watched shows on PBS in the past. Maggie fell in love instantly with the show Word Girl. That was fine with us because it is more educational than the stuff she would normally watch on Nick Jr. At the end of every episode for like a month they kept advertising that Word Girl was coming to the Mall of America and you could go meet her. Of course Maggie heard this and asked to go just about every day. We dangled it over her head like a carrot for about 3 weeks (worked wonders for staying in her bed all night :) ) and then the day finally arrived when Word Girl was going to be there. We headed out to the mall last Sunday and not only did we meet Word Girl, but Tommy also got his first taste of the rides at Nickelodeon Universe. Let’s just say we officially have two ride junkies.

Maggie is finally 42". 42" is the gateway height to some pretty big rides at Mall. She tried out two "big girl rides" all by herself. This one was pretty scary and she told me her tummy hurt afterwards.

This was the other big ride she did. She looks like such a little peanut next to the other kids. She liked this one much better than the first one.

Tommy and Mommy Susie on the back of the truck, Maggie is driving

Tommy taking one of multiple rides in Swiper's Cars. He loved them! He was laughing so hard. It was so cute. When we got off he started using his sign language and signing more.

Tommy's thumbs up. It is so cute

This was about the 4th time on the same ride

Tommy and Maggie also both still love the carousel

Meeting Word Girl for the first time!

She was in love

They also had a writing contest/coloring at the event. Maggie worked really hard on her picture and writing her name for about 45 minutes while we waited to meet Word Girl. Much to my surprise Maggie wanted to give Word Girl her art work.