Birthday-O-Rama

The twins turned 5 on the 14th, but we've been celebrating their birthday for over a week.

We travled to Louisiana the weekend of their birthday to see Carl's side of the family.

We had a birthday lunch with Popsie and Nana at Connor's favorite pizza place. 

The next day the twins got to decorate their own birthday cakes for a celebration in New Iberia.

When we got back to Dallas we had a taco party and cupcakes at preschool.

And finally, last Saturday we had a super hero birthday party.

Bat Girl is very serious about her responsibilities 

Very serious

Except you can smile when hanging out with Super Girl

Capes and masks ready for decorating. Thank you to JoJo and Kiki for all of your help with the decorating. I think it was really fun!

Super Penelope

Super Connor

Super Ashleigh

at the end of the party we're Super Tired!

The bar may be set a bit too high for future birthdays.

Loving the Perot Museum

We joined the Perot Museum of Nature and Science right when it opened. It was great a first, but they needed to work out a few kinks that first year, exhibits were getting worn out, it was too crowded and hard to get around.

I didn't renew our membership, but then as summer came around I knew we needed something indoors since the zoo and the Arboretum would be way too hot. We has cousins planning to visit in July so I figured I'd renew our membership before they arrived.

I'm so glad I did. We've been a ton of times this summer and the kids really love it. On our last visit:

We got to dig for dinosaur bones at an example excavation site.

We played music

I even bribed the kids to be in a picture with me, since I'm usually the one taking the pic

For taking a picture I let them get little dinosaur excavation kits.

Serious excavation

Dino prize

We saw a 3D movie about butterflies and liked it so much we went back the next day with Daddy and GiGi to see the one about pandas. (The pandas were cute, butterflies are awesome in 3D)

Now the museum has found a mammoth and you can watch the dig site live. So cool. The kids are so excited they want to help raise money to "bring the mammoth home!"

Way to go Perot.