3rd birthday fun

On Saturday the 18th, Nevaeh turned 3.  I can’t believe how fast those three years went.  Seems like last week I was freaking out about being pregnant already when Wyatte was only 9 months old.  I don’t have any baby pictures of Nevaeh on this computer and as I type this I am sitting in McDonald’s instead of at the park, because once again it is raining on at Tuesday and we can’t have our MUMS playdate.  Oh well, not like we are missing anything because we have only been able to have a couple of them.  Every Tuesday turned into once a month.  Oh well, that was a little bunny trail back to business at hand!

We were planning on going to the MckPicnik this past weekend.  After praying so long and hard for the McKinney family it would have been a blessing to meet them in real life (IRL) but stuff came up, mostly I didn’t plan ahead and didn’t have a place to stay!  But it was ok anyways.  We didn’t get to meet as many of the bloggers that I wanted to this past weekend and see the miracle that is Stellan, but we had our own fun!

We drove to Duluth on Saturday and headed to the aquarium that they have there.  Wasn’t quite what John and I thought it was, but the kids enjoyed it.  The best part for Wyatte and Nevaeh was the seahorse exhibit that we saw right before we left.  Aubrie loved looking at the big fish that were everywhere.

Looking out the window at the aquarium.  Aubrie and Daddy enjoying the water and the fish. One of the ponds in the aquarium.  I think there were river trout in this stream. Wyatte and Nevaeh enjoying some “ugly” fish. Wyatte was making “wind” in this machine, and he got to see how the sand/snow moved depending on how the wind blew. A sandpiper.  Turtle that the kids LOVED! Aubrie and Daddy looking at the ducks in the bird room. Nevaeh and Wyatte watching it clean itself. There are two ducks in this picture.  Both of them were sleeping, almost looked stuffed until I saw one of them blink! Aubrie loved them! Wyatte and I touched this sting ray, I was pretty nervous about putting my hand in there, but Wyatte wasn’t!  He thought it was pretty cool. Watching the two river otters run around eating krill frozen in ice cubes and smell the cinnamon they sprinkled around for them. There was this huge “model” of the great lakes.  Showed how the canal’s worked.  The two older kids loved it.  Putting the boats at the top and working all the way to the bottom. There was a thing to see how strong of a wave you could make, John “made” huge ones!  Nevaeh, not so much!!!
One of the kids favorite thing of the day was seeing the seahorse exhibit. This one has a crab scurrying around the bottom, Wyatte thought that was pretty neat as well. Nevaeh in the  beaver house

 

Going down the “otter” slide!

 

Then we headed over the bridge to Canal Park Point.  As we pulled up to the bridge we got a red light and the bridge started to go up.  Wyatte and Neveah and I ran out and watched while John sat at the light. 

  I tried to get a picture of Nevaeh and the bridge too, but it was all blurry and so you just get Wyatte’s! After driving what seemed like a really long time we go to the parking lot for the beach and headed out to the lake.  As you can see Nevaeh was pretty excited! Watching the huge lake, playing in the sand, throwing sticks, being a frog were all things that were accomplished while we were at the beach! Then I tried to get a cute pic of the three of them…  this was the best one!

Running back to the truck and to lunch!

Little miss independent!  She wouldn’t let anyone carry her, or hold her hand.

 

After lunch at the food court in the mall, we headed to something that Nevaeh has wanted for quite a while.  All she has talked about for a few weeks has been about getting ‘rings.  A couple of the other little girls have gotten them in the last month or two, and she noticed and wanted them.  We have talked about doing it in the past, but I wasn’t going to pay that much for something like this just because.  I wanted to wait until a special occasion.  So her birthday it was.  As you can see by these first few pictures she was pretty excited! Then with this one she realized that it was going to hurt :(  She jumped out of the chair into my arms and screamed bloody murder for about a minute and then was fine!  She said after wards that she didn’t want them anymore, but I told her we have to leave them in, and she was ok with that! 

Not a very good pictures (she was eating licorice), but you can kinda see the ‘rings (as she calls them).  She does look very nice with them in.  They are yellow gold with a pink stone.  She is very good about letting me clean and turn them, so far!

 

That was our Saturday, what did you do???