Brady's birthday adventure!

I realize I haven't posted anything in a while. We are just so darned busy this time of year. And as always Oliver is a 100%, on the go, handful.
For Brady's birthday this year we decided to something different than the usual kid's theme party. So I let Brady pick some friends to go to the Carnegie Science Center for the day. I had three other moms to help me wrangle the girls (and some siblings) through the science center. I think these kids had a great time. Any time you have a group of friends, it always seems that someone gets left out. Unfortunately it seemed that Brady kind of got left out and didn't get to buddy up with those that she really wanted to hang with. But I think all the girls had a blast and how many 7 year old birthday parties get taken out to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe? I think Brady is officially the coolest kid in the first grade. Here are some pictures of the party:



This is a popular exhibit for the kids. They stand against the wall and a bright light flashes and leaves an image of their shadow in the wall. Don't ask me for the scientific explanation! The kids love it and there were lots of Charlie's Angels' poses.

This was taken on top of the USS Requin, a submarine docked in the river that you can tour. There were about 30-40 Asian tourists that had gone into the sub already but didn't have a wristband from the science center so they had to come back up to the top until their tour guide got things straightened out. The experience that I have had with traveling to Asian countries is that they are used to having to work their way quickly through a crowd. There were many times I had a cart in the middle of the aisle during a service only to be pushed past when someone needed through. Not a big deal, we just aren't used to it in the US. Anyway, when they started coming back to the top, we were getting a little overcrowded on top of this very, very narrow submarine. I was very nervous that one of the girls would be knocked over the sides while they made their way through so I was hanging on to the backs of all their shirts. So we hurried through the sub, because their were 50+ people waiting on top to go through and there was NO WAY I was getting crowded in that little space.




We wrapped up our trip with dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. it had been a pretty gloomy day weather wise, but suddenly cleared a little and the sun came out briefly. From where we were sitting you could see a fountain that danced to music. The girls were in hysterics watching some rather intoxicated patrons dancing in front of the fountain (the Lynard Skynard concert was that night if that helps with the mental picture). So after dinner the girls headed out for their own dance party.

Phew. What a day. Happy 7th Birthday sweet girl. Mommy loves you.