Friday, March 21, 2008

Bikes, Butterflies and Botanicals













So we bought Bella her first two wheeler bike, with training wheels of course, and she is doing so great with it. There is the coolest park here that the locals call dinosaur park because there is a big dinosaur slide there. We have been there three times already the kids love it. There is also a mini roadway for the kids to ride their bikes complete with stop and yield signs and speed bumps! Bella loves it and does really well! I will send pics soon...

For the butterfly portion....
we went to the otago museum a couple days ago and they have this super cool exhibit of butterflies on now. There is an area that they have turned into a rainforest and you go in there and there are hundreds of butterflies flying around. If you are still enough they will land on you. Bella really wanted on to land on her but anyone who knows her knows that she would never get still enough!!! But she just loved it!

We visited the dunedin botanical garden yesterday and it was so gorgeous. So many different types of flowers and plants and an area where the kids could feed ducks. Bella wanted to have lunch near the ducks which proved to be a bad idea. the ducks were getting so close to her and her sandwich and were looking really hungry that we decided to move...
at the new location charlie was eating a cookie and held his hand out the side of the stroller for a second and a duck came right up and snatched it away, we were lucky that is all it snatched!

Charlie fell down the stairs of our backyard deck yesterday onto concrete and has a big bruise on his forehead....his first one ever!
more later.....

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