Sunday, September 15, 2013

Fun at the Perot Museum in Dallas...

Whoa...what a jewel of a childrens museum we have locally at the Perot Museum in Dallas! I felt like it really put the Fort Worth Childrens Museum to shame. And I am a Fort Worth girl, so that is hard to say.

My bestie and I loaded up our 5 kiddos and went to check it out. We had a really, really great time and didn't want to leave.

The first floor had an amazing dinosaur exhibit with life size fossil replicas. Sort of made me wish I had lived back in the day when they did. What mind blowing creatures God created!




Sadie and Drew...

Me and my girls...

My girls are animal lovers at heart and particularly loved the animal exhibit.
Snowy owls...
Cheetah...

Checking out the replica of a racoon's den...
Checking out the jack rabbits...
There was also a "body" exhibit...here was Mags learning about the electrical impulses that move through the nerves in the hand.
Heat sensor "dance off"! Go Mags!

Our very favorite part of the museum was the lower "kids" area for age 8 and under. They had a water play table that was a real hit with our crew. They all played at it for about an hour. FUN!


They also had a jungle gym climbing area, a faux grocery shopping experience, building blocks and reptiles and spiders in aquariums.



We found some fun picture ops on our way out in the courtyard. What a beautiful spring day!




My cutie pies!

Love doing life with these sweet besties!!!!

Friday, September 6, 2013

Springtime at the Fort Worth Zoo...

What is Spring without a sunny trip to the zoo? Another perk of part time home schooling is getting to enjoy adventures like the zoo in the middle of the week. Our zoo even has a home school day with discounted tickets. Score!

We teamed up with our favorite besties the Carpenters and spent the entire day at the zoo...in fact, we opened it and closed it down 10-5! A perfect day in my book! 
Rhino's
Maggie and Clayton...
Drew and Sadie...
Sisters...
Mr. Orang-utan...

Our cute little crew of "monkey's"...
Zebra...
Age 5 and 2...

Love special days like these with my girls!
Giraffe...
At the Koi pond...
Meeting the African Elephants...
And learning from the zoo-keeper about their tusks...

Hollywood!
Maggie was wayyyyy impressed with how many rolly-pollies were there. She is newly "not so scared" of creepy crawly things and these rolly-pollies are a fave.
Sleepy Lion...

Feeding the birds...

Cute crew, huh?

Loving their "pony" rides! Ha!

Wow-sers! That a big crocodile!
Flamingo's...