Harper turned 2 at the end of 2009. Jordan, my husband, and I decided that it would be fun to go to a Kids museum for his birthday. Surprise, Surprise, the Denver Children's Museum would have cost our little family of 3 over $22! Not a huge expense in the long run, but still. Doing a little more research we found that every first Tuesday of the month is free from 4pm-8pm!! FREE! We decided Harper would not know the difference if we went on his birthday for $22 or a week after is birthday for $0.

So...we made a night of it! We found another family to join us in our festivities and went into Denver a little bit early to hit up one of our favorite restaurants during happy hour. For a mere $29 we got some of the best wings in the world, a hormone free grass fed basil and blue cheese burger (yes, it is as good as it sounds), an avocado, veggie and cheese sandwich, 2 of the most amazing beers you will ever taste (for Jordan of coarse, Harper and I aren't into drinking these days), AND a large order of fries! Crazy right?! Dinner was great, the kids were full, and off to the Museum we went.

After an hour of chasing children through train rooms, painting rooms are very large and totally awesome tree house, we decided to make one more stop before heading home. Which leads us to my favorite part of the night...

We went down to the lower level where kids under 4 got to play. It was only slightly less crazy then the rest of the Museum that night. Harper had been eyeing this nifty little boat that came supplied with a magnetic fishing pole and lots of magnetic fish to out of the pond! There was however another little boy, lets call him Todd (named mainly because of the red and white striped turtleneck and blue corduroys he was wearing...Todd just seems to fit), who seemed to have taken over this particular play area. Finally, there was an brief opening. Todd climbed out and left his post for a few moments and Harper didn't waste anytime taking over. Todd quickly decided he wasn't quite done and thought he would join Harper in the boat. I anxiously watched as he crawled his way toward Harper, wondering if Harper would allow this trespass?! I was happy to see that Harper sat there patiently as the little boy climbed his way up. As Todd sat down next my dear sweet boy, Harper calmly looked over at him and screamed as loud as he could a few inches from the boy's face!! I, of coarse, being the sensitive caring mother I am, began to laugh as Todd burst into tears. Jordan on the other hand, kept his cool and did the polite parental things and told Harper that he should not do that, as the Todd's father scooped him up and away from my monster of a child!

Vine St. Pub dinner and drinks for 3: $29

Denver Children's Museum: $0

Harper gettin' crazy: Priceless