Weekend Snapshots 14

This weekend we celebrated my daughter’s 9th birthday.

She started the day off by opening some gifts and cards:

Hello Dali

Hello Dali

We went to the Albemarle County Fair, where we admired these sleeping beauties:

Sleeping beauties

Sleeping beauties

The birthday girl wanted Pad Thai and a Shirley Temple for dinner:

We went home to have her favorite, specially-commissioned Red Velvet Cake:

and to shower our favorite girl in the whole wide world with some birthday love:

Museum of Life and Science

The last of my North Carolina photos…

We’ve been to many children’s museums, from the West Coast to the East Coast. We think the Museum of Life and Science is the best one we’ve ever visited. We spent a lot of time there six years ago when the kids looked like this:

At the Museum six years ago

At the Museum six years ago

And this:

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And this:

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And this!

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But I digress.

The museum was the last stop on our North Carolina Nostalgia Tour 2014.

"I like the cut of your jib!"

“I like the cut of your jib!”

The kids loved the new “Into the Mist” playscape: