Happy baby.

Natural History Museum

Mason and I recently met our friends JoEllen, Sal, Nicky and Brooklyn at the Natural History Museum on the University Campus.

We played with cells....

Learned about solar power and how the museum uses them...

 Looked out over the valley from the roof...

Played with a few bugs...

Climbed in a shell...

And learned about the largest land mammal. Don't ask me the name of it. But it was huge when it was alive! Mason was ok touching part the nose, but only for a second. Then he was ready to leave. It was pretty scary. 

Visit to Seattle

We flew to Seattle for the weekend to visit our Washington friends, as well as Ernie and Jackie who drove up for their spring break! We had a great time seeing everyone, and we visited Pike's Place market, the aquarium, downtown and West Seattle. Mason had so much fun playing with all of his friends. He spent most of the weekend being squished by his bigger "cousins." He loved every second of it. 

We drove to Mt Vernon to visit our friends Kathleen and Danny from Canada. Mt. Vernon has a tulip festival every year in the spring. We were a little early for the festival, but since the winter was so warm a lot of them had already bloomed. These are daffodils, but each field was like this, just a solid color of flowers. So beautiful! 

Thanks for meeting us Kathleen and Danny! It was great to see you!

We spent our last day in Seattle at the Aquarium with the Garrisons. We saw the giant octopus that tried to escape his tank recently. He seemed pretty comfortable when we saw him though. :)  

Mason played with felt fish with Mabel and Nolan. 

Mabel on an Orca fin.

Mason liked the scuba diver. He even got a high five from him!

We had a great time seeing our friends and exploring Seattle!