Off to the Aquarium

Today, we met up with our friends Christine and Jeremy and their two kids, Sierra and Skyler at the Aquarium. The kids had a ball (they always do). We definitely enjoyed our time out of the house, despite the fact that we still spend at least half of our time on outings like this in one of the following ways:

• in a public bathroom (due to numerous potty breaks or diaper changes),



• sitting on a bench or floor nursing (that would be Alina), or



• figuring out where to buy food and set up the kids with a place to eat.

Good thing even public bathrooms are adventurous to toddlers.

Elliott loves aquatic life and has spent a lot of time poring over books of fish and sea mammals. The large sharks and sting rays particularly impressed him. Rosemary was in 7th heaven with another little girl to play with and 2 "babies". Skyler is a few months older than Gretchen.


We didn't take many photos since our hands were full of kids, double strollers, babies, bags, Beco, blankies, sippy cups and aquarium maps. Here's what happened when Alina tried to snap a photo upon arrival:

For some reason, if you line up two 3 year olds and one 4 year old, they simply cannot stop making funny faces, twiddling their hands or bumping up against one another! When we try to take group photos Rosemary is the worst - if she's not making a funny pose then she will pretty much ignore the camera. Ahem.

A fun time was had by all, especially since our outdoor options were quite limited. The temperature dropped back to the 50s with rain and cold winds.