Great Wolf Lodge

Back in the beginning of March we decided to take a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge, the coolest ever family water park, which is located about 30 minutes from where we live. We got a Groupon for it, so it was actually a good deal, and we had just such a wonderful time there!

Katherine really likes water and was super excited to run around and splash. She was a bit clingy when the big water jets were going off the giant bucket was dumping water down but she kept encouraging it anyway haha "Dump it out! Dump it out!"

We checked in in the afternoon after her nap, played till about 7:30, then had a pizza dinner in the main lobby while kids' story time was going on (Katherine LOVED all the animals and characters that were moving). The munchkin did great sleeping in the same room with us, which is big because she is a great, but very light sleeper and needs her peace and quiet. Luckily our room had a small living area which was separated from the main bedroom by a half wall and that gave her enough quiet to help her sleep...

The next morning we had a nice breakfast at Starbucks and headed to the water park again. Daddy was in charge of Katherine pretty much all the time so I was able to ride down all the crazy slides and they would meet me at the end. It was soooo much fun!

We checked out around lunch time and headed back home. It was a great experience. Can't wait to try it again when Katherine is a little bigger.

Ready to hit the pool...

 LOVING all the bears!

 In awe of all the animals...

 Hugs for all bears.

Aquarium and mall outing

While Daddy was in China, Katherine and I met up with Katherine's godmother AJ and cousin Jayson for an afternoon play date at Concord Mills to see the new Aquarium. We had all kinds of fun. The kids had a blast running around, looking at the fish, hiding in clever hidey places and being rambunctious.

After we said bye bye to Jayson and crew, we decided to explore the mall a bit. It was around 5:30 so I knew better than to to to fight traffic back to the house. 

We saw this little choo choo train going around, so we followed it till we found the pick up spot and we hopped on for a quick ride around. 

After that it was time to have dinner, so we headed to the food court and got some pizza slices.

We sat down right next to where the merry-go-round was and of course the entire time we ate Katherine was begging to go on it. After we finished dinner we headed to the ticket counter. It was only $2 and I could go free so total score.Katherine picked to go on the zebra and had a really good time.

She did better than expected. Normally she gets freaked out by any of those cars and things where you put money in and they bounce. I mean, she loves them and always begs to sit in them but when the music and motion start, she gets scared and wants off immediately. Well this time, maybe because she was strapped in and we had no choice but to stay, she actually made it the whole time. She did say 'I be all done' a couple of times but stayed on to the end. 

It was a super fun, action filled afternoon and she was ready to get home and to bed afterwards. Must do it again soon!

Tiny driver.

Our munchkin is sure to grow up to be a accomplished driver. She's been riding her trike since she was  about 19 months old (actually pedaling).

She's now quite good at it.

She lover driving a little tractor at a fair we went to last fall...

And recently she tried her friend's battery operated atv and LOVED it! 

She had so much fun with it that I decided to dig around craigslist and was able to find a used one for a really good price! It was super clean, I guess the people only used inside the house, so we jumped on it and now Katherine has a set of wheels of her own. 

Can't wait for her and Leila to ride together up and down our street.