Charlotte Nature Museum

Saturday’s trip to the Charlotte Nature Museum was tons of fun! The museum was smaller than I thought, but it had great interactive exhibits and was very focused on children. Alex loved seeing all the animals, especially the baby mice, turtles, and snakes. I was hoping he’d love the butterfly pavilion, but I think it stressed him out to see them flying right at him. The highlight of the trip was the boardwalk outside and the nature trail. We were so lucky to have a mild and sunny day for running around in the forest and collecting fire wood.

Water tables are always a hit! As real as it looks, that turtle was fake – thank goodness! Alex was slamming it in the water and splashing himself. This exhibit was really neat – it was basically the water cycle, complete with rain and ground water.

Alex was so concerned over his shoe falling off that we couldn’t get him to look at the camera.

Disco Alex? He was actually pointing out the “tall trees”.

Grandpa Murff’s blood definitely runs through this boy’s veins. He had so much fun piling wood in the wheelbarrow, moving it to another spot, and dumping it out. Who knew a wheelbarrow could be so much fun?

He worked so hard to dump out that wood!