little brother pics

Dallas Children's Aquarium

This past Saturday we decided that we should take Sophie out for a family outing to a museum or somewhere fun.  We were considering Ft. Worth, but then remembered that the rodeo is in town and that would be crowded, so we looked into Dallas.   It turns out they have a great children's aquarium in fair park.  It was great for Sophie.  Small enough that you could see it in an hour, but still enough stuff that she got bored, not as expensive, some hand-on things, some displays she liked, and you didn't have to worry about getting run over by a horde of tourists.

She was pretty insistent on "more aquarium" after we left, but there's also a butterfly garden right next door, so we might try that next time.

Everyone else was too wimpy to touch the horseshoe crab.

Rainbow bass?

"These are my favorite color!"

Big ol' Lobster.

You could dial different color lights on the jellies.  

Window into the octopus tank.

Trying to pet a stingray.

Holiday Pics (post 1)

Okay, so I'm finally going through a bunch of the pictures I took over the holidays and will be posting them here.  This first set is from a "Pictures with Santa" day that a local autism support foundation had.  Sophie had a blast and it was great weather.  This was her first experience with face painting.  A couple days later, we were at the playground and another little girl showed up that had a face painting (I presume from her school party).  Sophie said, "I want more face painting!"