NieceandNephewpalooza!! Part Two.

On Friday, we loaded up the gang and went to Discovery Place for some more learning stuff. Pete was pretty excited about the buildings in Charlotte. I guess he's not used to that because of the building restrictions in Charleston. I was pretty excited because we were close to my happy place--the Belk Theater--and I could see all the show posters. :) While we were waiting for Brenna to get in her stoller, I snapped a few pictures of us. :)

Helena said she looked squished, so I took one of just us. :)

We went into Discovery Place and fount out that there were only 5 seats for the IMAX and we needed six. Fail. So we just did the museum part. The big exhibit right now is about shipwrecks and pirates. It was pretty neat. They had a bunch of artifacts from shipwrecks, a movie about how they recover stuff from the ocean floor, and some neat interactive things for the kids to do. Mere and I were bored waiting for the movie.

Then we went upstairs to the third floor. That's where all the "discovery" things are. Science-y things. The kids wandered around doing different activities. I think they were having fun.

Helena took my camera again. "Make a funny face, Aunt Stephanie."

"Make a funny face with me, Helena."

After Discovery Place, we had lunch at McAlister's and then headed for home. When we got to my house, Helena stayed with me because we had some very important work to do. Her birthday cake! :) She wanted me to make a Candy Land cake for her birthday party. She helped me in the kitchen. She watched me make the icing and I talked to her about all the things I was doing. I really enjoyed spending that time with her! Here she is with the finished product.

When the cake was finished, we went back to Mom and Dad's. Mom, Dad, Pete, Colin, Helena, and I went to Courtney's Barbecue in Clover for dinner. Yum. After dinner, Meredith and Brenna met us back at the house so that we could all say goodbye to Pete and Helena.

It was so nice to have them here for a few days! I LOVE my nieces and nephews!!! :)