Things to Touch

There was even a touch tank where the kids could go in and touch the live animals in the water. This kind of creeped me out because a lot of the creatures were spiky looking.

Ally, who is the biggest scardy cat in our family, shocked us all by being the first to grab one of the creatures. Who knew?

Emmy wasn't so eager to be touching anything. But since Ally did it she finally made herself, she couldn't be showed up by her sister.

I'm pretty sure Charles-Allen wasn't suppose to be touching in this tank. Boys, what are they thinking?

So cute!

Things to See

The best part of the aquarium was all the stuff to see. We walked outside and there were loads of turtles and birds.

The kids really loved watching the diver inside the fish tank. There was even a shark in there.

This is Ally waving at the diver, he saw her and waved back. We even got to see them feed the fish.

Here they are checking out the cool eels in the tank.

Kerr Beach

After spending a large part of the day at the Aquarium we spent the rest of our day on Kerr Beach. It was the first really warm day and since Emmy has year round school it's the only day that she got off for Spring Break. Emmy and Charles-Allen were the only ones who took their swim suits and it was a good thing because the water was freezing. They seemed not to mind at all.

Here they are waiting for the waves to come.

And this is them after they realized how cold the water was.

Ally wanted nothing to do with any of it. She's terrified of the waves. She just runs and screams. Such a girly girl.

Someone had dug this big hole in the sand. They loved jumping into it when they weren't running from the waves and trying to dig for sandfiddlers.

Competition #2

Emmy had her 2nd dance competiton last Saturday in Durham and they won first place. Emmy had the honor of accepting the awards. She had a really great time watching the other dancers and playing with her friends afterwards. I think I deserve an award for staying the whole time with an eleven month old baby. But Parker did awesome and was so good the whole time.

There's my super star.

When Was The Last Time You Had This Much Fun?

Last weekend Emmy had a dance competition in Durham and Neal was out of town in Orlando for the week. So I called up my trusty Dad to see if he wanted to come get Ally and Charles-Allen for the day. He agreed (you must loose your mind as you get older) and so that morning we meet at the Newton Grove exit and we switched off. Charles-Allen and Ally were both excited, but I think Charles-Allen was out of control excited. I had gotten them dressed so pretty, especially Ally. She looked like a pink princess. Her hair was blond and curly. She had the cutest pink outfit on and she even had on her new powder pink Tarheel jacket. When I got her back this is what she looked like.


Unfortunately, the pictures don't do her justice. She looked like my dad had thrown her in the pig pen and she had rooted all day with the hogs. Her beautiful hair was a MESS! And I couldn't decide if she had more snot or dirt on her face. It's anybodies guess. And her pants will never be able to be worn out in public again, unless she goes to Pepa's house. But all that really matters is that she had fun, and she definitely did. My mom let my kids go "shopping" in her shop and Charles-Allen came back with a whole bag full of junkr really cool stuff. Ally had on two pretty necklaces that she refused to take off when it was bedtime. And they were exhausted which was good for me because they were so ready to get in their bed. Thank goodness for Pepa.

Ally Loves Some Bling

I had a jewelry party Thursday night for a friend of mine. As she was setting up Ally was all in her stuff, trying everything on. I couldn't keep her out of the jewelry, but Bonnie was so good and didn't seem to mind at all. It could be that cute face of hers, or her constantly say, "Ooooo, dis is sooo pretty!", or maybe the fact that I'm sure she helped sell some of the jewelry. We had a great time playing games, but just a little warning to all you ladies, if you lend someone your purse please make sure you don't have anything "unusual" in it.

Now who wouldn't want to buy some bling from this cutie pie. Ally was right, dis is sooo pretty!

BOWtiful!

Parker finally has enough hair to put a hairbow in....well, maybe that's a stretch, but I did manage to clip this cute little hairbow to her 5 strands of hair on Sunday for the first time. I don't know who was more excited, her or me. Unfortunately, after the first hour of church it had fallen out about 25 times and Neal was afraid I was going to pull what little bit of hair out that she has trying to keep the bow in. He's such a grandma. He took her for the last hour, probably to save her hair from her crazy, bow lov'n mama, and it was never to be seen again. When I asked him what happened to it he claimed he didn't know. But I do have pictures to prove that she can now wear hairbows.

She's such a cutie patootie. Even without the hairbow, but it adds even more to her already beautiful self. She had tubes put in her ears this morning, and the doctor said she had a lot of mucas buildup in her eardrum and that she should feel much better and act much better, but we hardly ever see her upset. Even with all her ear troubles she is the happiest baby ever. We're so happy to have her!