our weekend

This past weekend was one of the most fun weekends we've had in a while. I love living in Gilbert. Saturday afternoon Joe was doing yard work and Carter had just gotten up from a nap and I stepped outside and yelled to Joe "wrap it up! let's go to the water park!" 15 minutes later we were on our way to one of Carter's favorite places. And the water park didn't disappoint. I got my 10ish minutes of clingy snugly Carter (love!) and after that he was full speed ahead playing and running and having a blast. I wish I had the guts to bring the Nikon to the water park. I'm sure the pictures would be awesome, but I'm scared to ruin the Nikon so I settled for the p&s. Add to my wish list a zoom lens and we'd be all good! Photography sure is an expensive hobby.



I love this little set of pictures. Carter saw me crouching down taking his picture and he smiled all huge and walked as fast as his little body would go in the water over to me. Love him to pieces!

Carter loves the splash pad area of the water park. They have lots of little fountains and water to run through. While looking at these pics I just noticed that Carter is the only kid wearing a hat and water shoes. Which I think is crazy! The pool decking is insane hot on my feet, I can only imagine what it would feel like on baby feet. And I want him to be able to explore so the water shoes are perfect for that. Plus a little extra traction. Then the hat seems like a "duh" to me. We live in Arizona and have intense full sun all the time. We have to protect that delicate baby skin!

Sunday we went to the aquarium. Carter loved loved loved every second of the aquarium. He was able to run and explore everything as he pleased and he loved the fish! The only part he didn't like was when you walk through a glass tunnel with the fish and such totally surrounding you. He wasn't so sure of walking in there and wanted to be held.



We made it just in time for the stingray feeding. As soon as we got there we took Carter out of the stroller and he ran right up to the tank, pressed his face against it and was laughing, smiling, and ooohhing and ahhing non stop. It was so funny and cute to watch him.



*Warning, the pictures from the aquarium are terrible. It was so dark, both my p&s and the nikon had a really tough time. Like I said before a camera with higher ISO capabilities is on my wish list... hint hint Joe Troness!*

waiting to get in the aquarium... not so sure about what's going on

stingray tank

There were these little areas where you could crawl under the tanks and then come up in a bubble in the middle of the tank. Here's Carter totally surrounded by a tank! He was loving it!

The aquarium was small but very kid friendly. We let Carter explore everything on his own time and where he wanted to go. I think that definitely added to the fun for him.

Carter could have sat at this tank forever. This was the shark tank.. although you don't see any sharks in the pictures. Carter was so fascinated. He was making fishy noises and waving and saying bye to the fish! So stinking cute!

here's the fish noise face! (fish make kissy noises)