This weekend

 Addilyn had such an exciting weekend. Thursday there was a free morning at the Children's Museum. The last time we went was a little over a year ago. Check out the difference! She wasn't even walking then, just crawling. She had a blast. 

She insisted on getting in there even with the two older boys.

She loved the horse, of course.

 One of the 2 rooms she really loved- the baby room. She went over to where the crib was and hauled it all the way back to her own rocking chair. Addilyn truly has the mommy gene. My only concern with her brother is I'm going to have to hold her back on her helping...

 The other room she loved was the grocery store. She went and collected food, made pretend ice cream, and played most of the time at the cash register.

 There is a park near Scott's work that is soooo cool. We went after we picked him up and the two of them had a blast. Addilyn has definitely become fearless when it comes to slides...no matter the size. It's been fun going to parks with her lately because she's getting the hang of climbing up things and getting around the toys.

The slides were probably 30 feet high!

 Did I mention she loves shoes? It doesn't matter who they belong to...

Saturday morning we went to the temple in Raleigh. Our friend's Sean and Michelle got married there. Luckily there were enough people outside that they could watch Addilyn while we got to go in. It was such a beautiful day. Low/mid 70's and no humidity. Gosh I love the spring here!

After the temple we went into downtown Raleigh. We ate at Clyde Cooper's BBQ. It wasn't bad, their chicken was definitely the best. Addilyn loved the potato salad, fries, and hush puppies.

mmmmmm

 After lunch we went to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science. (we walked through the gardens of our state capital building between lunch and the museum, that was neat) The museum is massive! It's 2 buildings, 4 floors each. We only had a few hours before we had to head back home for the wedding reception so we only saw 1.5 floors of one of the buildings. We didn't mind that we could only be there a short time because everything was free.

Checking out the butterflies!

Unfortunately I didn't take too many pictures in the museum. The lighting wasn't that great and we were all over the place (and my hands were swelling). We did learn in one of the exhibits that out of the 30-some-odd snakes in NC, only 4 are poisonous and 1 of those 4 live in our area...the copperhead. Which is nice to know! The copperhead is extremely easy to identify. However, that does not mean that any of the other snakes are any less terrifying, although completely harmless to humans. Like the rat snake. That was the first snake we encountered here in NC and they are uberly intimidating. Click here for a look. They get up to 7 feet long. Yuck.

The fishies.

Today in nursery Addilyn tripped on the blanket that they lay out for singing time. She got a massive fat lip and bled on my friend's shoulder as she was carried to me. Poor thing. She doesn't seem to be bothered at all by it though. But it's definitely fat. As my friend Kayla said, people pay lots of money for lips like that!

Did I mention how extremely lucky we are to have Addilyn? We are completely spoiled rotten with her. Just for example, Saturday was such a long day.... We left just before 8am to get to the temple and didn't really sit down until the car ride back when we left Raleigh at 4pm. Addilyn changed her nap from 1-3 to 2-4 over the last 2 weeks and she did not complain one moment that she was tired. We could see a physical change in her, like she was resting her head on Scott's shoulder while we watched an exhibit. But that was the only cue that she was tired. Even when she got into the car, it was about 5 or so minutes of her just sitting there and then she was out. She didn't whine or give any signs that she was tired. And she's always been like that. Then once we got to the reception, she was wild! Running around like she had all the pent up energy in the world. The only time she obviously showed her fatigue was when we got home around 8. We forced her into a bath (she had sand in her hair from the volleyball pit at the reception) and then within 20 minutes she was in bed passed out. I'm pretty sure I can handle 30 minutes of a tired Addilyn compared to a tortured soul all day. I am just so worried that this little guy is not going to be as forgiving. Please be good!!!!