McWane Center

a few weeks ago, the girls and i piled in the car and headed to the McWane Center in Birmingham.

one word: wow!

aquarium. science center. discover center. playground. all rolled into one! how'd we miss this for so long?

we met five of the {six} lewis crew for a fun filled morning! that meant seven kiddos between the two mommies! can we say outnumbered? we only almost lost one kiddo in a crazy elevator...twice.

thankfully miss abby is a tremendous help to her sweet mama, therefore, she was an awesome help to me too!

we started in the aquarium, which i'm pretty sure addie is still talking about! there were fish and eels and an octopus and seahorses and even sharks and stingrays you could pet! according to addie, everyone she knows should now come with her to the mcwane center to see the aquarium!

we then headed to another level with a huge maze and a zip line! allison and i were both shocked that izzy and addie both wanted to follow abby's lead and ride the zip line. and they both actually did it! my slow pocket camera couldn't capture any decent pictures when the girls were in motion, but i love the one of abby pulling down on the swing to help izzy off. thankfully mrs. allison was in there by the time addie went down to help her off!

right before lunch, we found the dance floor! the lights weren't working correctly, but that didn't stop our little dancers!

after a yummy lunch, we found the bubble room. everyone made some amazing bubbles...

but i think mrs. allison wins the prize...all done while wearing an almost 25lb sweet baby micah!!!

the four big kids all tried on their scientist goggles, but this was the only picture that turned out where no one was moving/in front of someone else/blurry: addie and izzy. they are about 10 weeks apart in age. (and the twins and micah are about 10 weeks apart in age too!)

below are some dancing videos from the day. i love watching the sweet interactions between the big kids and little kids. and then there was anne perry who shot off the dance floor at record crawling speeds! micah was a happy baby until he mama got up to help restart the music. he's one amazing little boy!

there is so much going on in this video! music. abby bringing anne perry to me. everyone dancing around. and then there's addie. check out those moves of hers! the kicks were strikingly similar to elaine's from seinfeld dancing moves. except addie's never seen seinfeld. hmmmm...she must have picked those up from her daddy ;)

of course i had to include this video. it took going through several before finding one that didn't have the dialouge before she dances (which contained a curse word!). see any similarities?

of course i'm kidding. addie has a little more rhythm than that thanks to a few years of kindermusik! thank you lewis' for meeting us the QwaQwane Center! as always, we had a blast with your precious family!