And Not a Single Picture of the Gardens

My friend Andrea and I took the kids to the Botanical Gardens the other morning. With an 80% change of rain I was pretty sure we were going to get soaked, but there was not a drop of rain the entire time we were there. It did stay overcast and a bit breezy, but that just made things nicer to walk around the gardens. I tried to take a lot of pictures, but you know what I ended up not taking ANY pictures of.....the beautiful gardens. I'm ashamed of myself, but I guess I was just too wrapped up in getting pictures of the boys.

Here's Andrea and Win looking all spry and ready to walk the gardens.


And then there's this little boy who mysteriously fell asleep 10 minutes into the event. What's up with that? Oh, and don't mind my pasty white skin and bad hairdo. I had put zero effort into my ensemble that day since I fully expected to get rained on.

The gardens has a really cool children's area that offers tons of opportunities for hand on learning for kids. X enjoyed climbing on lots of things.

I tried to get a good pic of both boys sitting on the bench. Here's the best one I got :) And, this was about 2 seconds before poor Win fell off and did a face plant into the mulch.

Stacking wood was one of the highlights of the morning. Who knew?

Both boys enjoyed playing the outdoor musical instruments. Win was really good on this one. He may have a musical future. The boys also practiced sharing the little sticks (my mind is blanking on the correct term for them) which was adorable.

The children's area has a a little splash pad. Some of it wasn't turned on because it wasn't super hot out, but X sure did enjoy the little fountain.

In the "General Store" there were all kinds of plastic fruits and veggies to play with. The apples were a hit with X. He kept putting him in and out of different bins. He didn't quite get that they were supposed to be apples though and kept calling them balls.

Isn't this sweet - friends sharing a loaf of bread together!!

There was also a really neat slide that the boys enjoyed. I didn't get any pictures of that because I was too busy being the catcher at the end of the slide! It was a fun morning and we are grateful for Andrea's membership getting us in FREE too! Unfortunately I left my wallet with Andrea and had to turn around on the way home to go get it. But, it worked out because we ended up having some lunch and the boys got to play together a little more.

What wasn't so good was that X decided a 15 minute nap in the car on the way home was all he needed for the rest of the day. Needless to say it was early to bed that night because someone was a total cranky pants by 6:30pm. Guess you can't have your cake and eat it too!