This post is just embarrassingly late considering that we went to Brady’s first Bear’s game (a preseason, Saturday evening affair) in August! We got a hotel room for the weekend and made a super-event of the whole thing. Since we only have 4 tickets, after tailgating as a family, Brian took the boys in while I went back to our hotel room. We met up later at Navy Pier for the Saturday fireworks show. The next day we went to our favorite beach spot for Air and Water Show viewing. We have been BACK to Soldier Field a second time this season, but Brady didn’t go to the game (10/28 vs. Panthers…Bears win with a last minute field goal). We decided preseason and actual games are far different and Brian wasn’t ready to handle the three boys alone quite yet with Brady being kinda wiggly. So…we invited Logan’s friend Sam to come along. Again, we all cooked up some food and enjoyed a little tailgating before the game. We walked together towards the front of Soldier Field, but Brady and I split off, grabbed a cab and went to Navy Pier for the afternoon. We hit Build-a-Bear, the Children’s Museum and lots of different fun stores.

Here are pictures of our 2 Bear’s adventures, The Air and Water Show and of my trip with Brady to Navy Pier. It’s always a blast to spend some time one-on-one with my boys!

Pre-Season Game: Aiden and Brady still have their “we cut our own hair” summer cuts and look…so warm we’re all wearing shorts.

 

Brian said that I was making the tail-gate too girly with olive oil, bread, goat cheese and wine. Ha!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

Of course there was some football-throwing on the beach. The kid front and center in the water is NOT one of mine ;)  Brian took a LOT of plane pictures…here are a handful of good ones

Our Second Bears outing with Sam in tow…still loving the car-sitting more than chairs around the car. Sam is a Packer’s fan…so we loaned him some Bears gear. Logan and Aiden (in true little-boy-spirit) spent the time during tailgating trying to convince Sam that we had signed him up to sing the National Anthem. He didn’t fall for it!

Burnham Harbor Lot. Me = girl in puffy blue coat…quite a change from our pre-season affair!

This is the dog Brady got at Build-a-Bear. He is wearing an snowboarding outfit and sunglasses…his name is Summer (Brady’s decision). 

This is a super-cool exhibit at the Children’s Museum about cardboard. There was a room where you could play with boxes, cut them…stack them…make them into crafts. I just LOVED the wall outside the play room…amazing! Every thing on the wall is 3D and made of cardboard.

There was another area where you could take these pieces and build all sorts of structures. You would be amazed at what other people had done…forts with covers on them (provided), crazy stairs…lots of cool stuff! We spent a lot of time in this area.

The view from the water-play area. Sure beats the view from our local branch of the Children’s Museum!

Brady in a borrowed rain-coat playing with the water stuff.

Since it was right before Halloween, there were all these fun activities going on…lots of kids walking around in costumes trick-or-treating from store-to-store. This was a funny band outside all in crazy skeleton costumes.