Natural History Museum - Part 1

 Yesterday Declan told me that he wanted to go see gems - he's been playing a lot of MineCraft this summer.  When I told him that there was a place very close by that we could see LOTS of gems - his eyes lit up!  This morning we found parking right in front of the Natural History Museum and spent the morning looking at gems!
It's my favorite part of the museum so I was super excited to be able to spend lots of time there. Usually everyone humors me for about 10 minutes but we spent almost two hours looking at all sorts of rocks and minerals.
On the way out the kids remembered the butterfly exhibit so guess what? We're coming back soon!!

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

 While the girls were at the Dance Clinic, the boys and I went to the Natural History Museum.  We had lots of fun and it was nice to be able to focus on just Aidan and Declan and have them focus on each other as well.  They had a great time - there are so many interactive displays and buttons that make things light up.  It was fantastic!  After we were done with the museum, we had lunch and then visited with the butterflies. Declan was totally freaked out by all of them dive bombing him and he stayed pretty close to me!  Aidan was a butterfly magnet and they kept landing all over him - it was very cool!!!