Here is little Miss Avery Jane just after she was born (photo courtesy of Papa)
And then a few months later, being the smiley girl that she usually is!
Is this picture not so adorable! It is one of my favorites.
We met at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum 2 weekends ago. We includes: Rob, Abby, Avery, Tessa, Gramma, Papa, Len, Kyle, Mike and Michael (friends of Rob and Abby and his son), and the 4 of us.
That place was HUGE - 2 floors and lots of space and activities! The kids had a great time and all did really well staying together and playing well with each other and all the other kids there.
Avery at the bubble table(notice all the snow out the window, the weather was awful)
Michael and Quentin playing in the bubbles too.These were so cool and made really big bubbles, all the big kids liked playing here too!
The music area was a big hit too.These 3 are shots of Jack, Avery, and Quent looking through a mirrored triangle tube.
It was a really neat effect!
Quent is playing with the "ATM" in the bank. It was a cool setup with a car and a tube to send things back and forth. Jack is getting into the car.
Jack looking very closely at the beehive. He talked about the bees moving in there for days.
Brave Tessa takes the big slide face first!She was so happy and luckily it was padded at the bottom, so she was safely sliding too!
Avery is hugging 2 big penguins. They had a big exhibit with all kinds of penguin stuff - very cool - and all the kids loved it. The slide behind her comes out into a pit of white "snowballs".
Here was Quentin's favorite part of the museum. You load all the balls in from the top and then you pull out the lever and all the balls fall out (think connect four game). He and Uncle Lenny stayed there for a very lopng time, playing with all the different shapes they had for the balls.
Gramma, Uncle Lenny, Quent and Tessa loading the balls in (notice that Quentin has all orange balls - his favorite color!)
Another shape for the balls and Avery joined Quent.We all went to TGIFridays for a late lunch, cake and presents.
Avery gave out goodie bags to Jack and Quent and Michael. The big hit of the bag was the party blowers! (we still have them and use them almost everyday!)
Quent making lots of noise!
Jack really got into it and after he played with it for a while, he got really good at controlling it and making it go in and out slowly. It was hilarious how intent he was on that thing. He fell asleep in the car with it in his hand!
Avery opening presents next to Aunt Ky-Ky.
Yahoo - Avery blew out all the candles!
Mmmmm cake
Mmmm cake
Avery showing me her Kung Fu Panda decorations from her cake, Avery's mom (Aunt Abby) is helping out the cake covered birthday girl. We had SO MUCH FUN! And I think Avery had a very Happy Birthday celebration!
We can't wait to plan our next trip to this really awesome mueum!
2 comments:
Omigosh, that museum looks like SUCH fun! The Bubble table and that kaleidoscope effect alone would make it worth visiting!
Can tell a great time was had by all!
Thank you for playing along with Way Back When-esday! (and oh yes, that picture is SO adorable!)
We will definitely have to get over there this summer - it DOES look great. I LOVE the photos in that triangle tube or whatever it was! sooo cool! Glad everyone had fun!
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