The Gardens

Last week the kids and I took advantage out of our membership and spent a morning at Frederik Meijer Gardens. We had the most gorgeous day: lots of sunshine, but not too hot. They have a wonderful children's garden. This time we found a little ballet stage that we had never noticed before complete with mirrors, bars, feet showing the ballet foot positions, and a basket full of ballet skirts. Elinore was beside herself. Here she is dancing in front of the mirror.

When Kevin came home from work and asked Elinore what she did that day, she told him all about the big horse (you can sort of see it here behind us, a big statue. we are about as big as a hoof. Big!) and running down the hill. They have a couple really big hills around the horse, and Elinore went up and down them several times (you can see the photo below). Mama only went once! We played in the water, the sand, the tree house, ate our snack, more water, and stopped at Wendy's on the way home.
Tobin, little dear, took a little snooze in the stroller and we tried to keep him out of the sun. We can't wait until he can run down the hill with us!!