A Day of Fun

Sophia and I had the best day Saturday! I let her plan the day. We started by going to Petsmart to watch the dogs in doggie daycare play. She is insistent that we get a new puppy for her birthday, so that seemed to help her puppy fix for the time being. She allowed me to run into Kohls for some sandals and then was able to convince me to buy her yet another stuffed animal. Because even though she has 400 animals, she doesn't have a lizard!! Leo the lizard has been with us the whole weekend!

Next we went to Michaels because they were having craft day. She got to stencil and decorate a tote bag, very cool! The funniest thing was when we were walking out of the store she said "mom thanks that was so much fun, and you know what best of all mom, it was free, not expensive! She knows me too well.

We had lunch at one of her favorite places and then headed to the NC State Museum of Natural Sciences. We learned lots of interesting things about all the animals of NC, plus we got to pet a real alligator.



Interesting Gator Facts:
i couldn't believe that this alligator was 5 yrs old. the lady explained it like the goldfish theory. an alligator in a small pond will only grow as big as his pond!
oh yeah and they still don't know after 5 yrs if its a male or female gator. when they get bigger their neck changes to indicate. females have larger necks, weird
female gators build a nest in the spring for her eggs. NC gators lay between 40-50 eggs every other year
all those eggs will be either be male or female babies. because alligators don't have X,Y chromosomes the sex is determined by the temperature of the nest. so she'll hatch 50 boys or 50 girls.


sophia couldn't get enough of it i think she wanted to take him/her home


outside the museum someone was selling mininature horse rides. it was so cute but after watching the horse do one run in the heat i told sophia it was cruel. and i didn't want us hurting the horse. poor thing!



we found this cute cupcake shoppe nearby because Sophia's favorite food is cupcakes. so yummy!


when we got home we went to the pool for our daily swim with friends. just before bed she begged to do the dishes, ok! of course they still had to make their way into the dishwasher after her wash but she had fun
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