"Do You Remember The Turtle..."

On Monday, the kids and I went to a local nature center with some of our friends. I missed the turn and had to turn around. As we were driving back toward the nature center Wesley asked, "Mommy, do you remember the turtle that pooped as he was walking across the floor? Did you know turtles have green poop?"

Isn't amazing what little kids remember? We went to the nature center in April with MOPS and they did a little program for us and the kids got to pet snakes, frogs, and turtles. It was raining for most of our visit in April so we missed out on the cool playground.
I love playgrounds. Blame it on my job or maybe it's because of my childhood and the many fond memories of the playgrounds at the local schools and community college. The playground at the nature center did not disappoint. It has a lot of climbing things which is what I loved about it.

Weslye tried out the fireman's pole.

Walking on this chain was challenging for Wesley even when he was holding on to the rail.

I was surprised but this scared him.

Lydia did some climbing also.

Here she is hanging before going down the slide. Under this platform are some little benches that the kids enjoyed playing on.

After playing for a little while we went down the nature center and looked at the animals. Wesley and Lydia both asked to go downstairs to the classroom where they got to touch the animals last spring. We will have to try to do that again sometime.

The area around the center is really pretty. The two older girls thought it was stinky so they were holding their noses when I took this picture. The rest of us didn't really smell anything.

It was a fun morning and I am looking forward to going back.