Happy St. Patrick's Day!

March 17th, 2014

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  The children woke up and were happy to see that the leprechaun had paid our apartment a visit.  Their milk was green!

Loving his green milk!

Both Christian and Lindalee have been asking to go to the aquarium, so off we went!  It was a big day for Christian at the museum.  He has never wanted to get too close to the shark and stingray touch tank, but today was different.  For the first time, he touched both a shark and stingray.  Not just one, but as many as he could.  After about thirty minutes, I had to bribe him to leave.  Poor Lindalee was terrified the whole time, but she was a trooper.

Touching a stingray.

Lindalee had some brave moments.  She would get close to the tank as long as no sharks or stingrays were close by.  Smart girl.

Christian touching the sharks.  I had a hard time watching.  I'm with Lindalee!

"Oh my gosh!  That was awesome!"

There was a small lecture going on at the top of the large ocean tank.  When it was done, the woman leading the lecture said that she will be taking questions.  Without hesitation, Christian {while wearing his ninja turtle t-shirt} said, "Excuse me!  Did you know that turtles don't breathe when they sleep?"  She called him to the platform so that he could tell everyone that interesting fact.  They got into quite the little discussion about turtles {that I could hear from across the tank since she had a microphone}.  She taught him another interesting turtle fact that he thought was very awesome: Turtles can breathe out of their butts.

A snail eating a mussel in the touch tank.

Christian said, "Look Mommy!  That fish is almost as big as me, take a picture!"

Christian and Lindalee are both big fans of the jellyfish exhibit.

A diver waved to them.  That's a big deal in the Baker household!

Watching the penguins eat breakfast.

My sweet little cupcake.  I'll eat her for dessert any night!

Thankful for a truly awesome day with my favorite little people in the whole, wild world!