McDowell Nature Center

One weekend in August we went to the McDowell Nature Center for some fun things to see, hiking and playing on the playground.

Here's the entrance to the Nature Center.  Kira was so funny, she did not want to put her head up to the hole.

But her brother was all over it and she watched carefully as he did it.

Walking to the building.  I love hand holding pics.

There was a turtle eating its lunch of strawberries and lettuce.

Aren't they just cute standing there.  Isak is a good 3 inches taller than Kira.

Then we went for a little hike...about 1/4 of a mile.

The kids did awesome.

Climbing over tree roots and they stayed on the path pretty well.

We learned about our children's different personalities.  Kira was our gung-ho leader.  She HAD to be in front leading the way.  Isak was our dilly-dallier.  He took his time and pointed at everything.

Isak pointing at the tree...maybe??

This was the path and trees.  Pretty morning.

I had to run to get ahead of Kira so I could get a picture of her leading the way.

She was super intense about hiking.

And here's dad and Isak coming up from behind.

They played on the benches for a bit.

Isn't Kira just a cutie!

And Isak too.

Tree hugger!

My artsy picture for the day.  Tiny mushrooms.

Then they played at the playground.
Kira is flying down the slide.

Going in opposite directions.

King of the playground.

King in training. heehee.

Fairly good shot of the two together.

Cheesy me.

Then we went to Bruster's ice cream.  We ate a little picnic lunch and then ate ice cream.

I love that Bruster's gives free kiddie cones.  Perfect size for the kids.

It was a fun trip and the kids loved all of the new things.