Trip to Birmingham

The boys and I took a trip to Birmingham at the beginning of October so we could visit my sister and her family. We had a wonderful time while we were there! We visited the zoo, museum and a pumpkin patch. All four boys were thrilled to get to play together and had a fun time just being silly with each other. Harrison and Barrett also really liked seeing Penny, their new cat.

It was a great trip and traveling by myself with the boys wasn't too bad since they were both good little travelers. Here are some pictures from our trip.

Here we are on the way to Birmingham. Southwest is awesome! The pilots invited Harrison to check out the cockpit and he was so happy.

Barrett is trying to play with Penny. He brought her the Wii remote, a domino, and some food from her bowl.

The first morning we were there we went to the zoo. The boys had a great time.

Harrison loved feeding the Lorekeets. They drink a sweet solution out of a little metal cup. We were the first people into their habitat that day so they were ready to eat!



Getting ready to ride the zoo train.




Riding the zoo train with Aunt Susie.



Harrison and Jeffrey fed the giraffes at the zoo. Harrison loved it!

Charlie and Harrison playing at the local playground.

We went to the museum on Sunday afternoon. Harrison remembered the dinosaur dig area (not surprising since he wants to be a paleontologist) and was excited to go there and find bones with Charlie.

The boys went into the wind tunnel together. As you can see it really does blow--in this picture it's up to 78.4 MPH!

The museum has a small aquarium in the basement. There is a touch tank where you get to touch stingrays and sharks. We thought Harrison was going to dive in (thank you for holding on Aunt Susie!) and he could have stayed there all day.

Barrett was very excited about the touch tank too. Good thing we were paying attention or he would have been head first on top of a stingray!

He had a great afternoon at the museum.

Even Barrett got to touch a shark!

We had a great time just hanging out at the house and playing outside. Barrett loved the big dump truck.

On Monday we went to a pumpkin patch out in the country.

Riding the tractor out to pick pumpkins.

Barrett loved the animals. He kept running away from us and going back to see them. Can  you tell he liked the goats?

Giant slide!