What a fun day!!

Its hard to believe that Reece is starting kindergarten in less than two weeks.  He is going to be gong 5 FULL DAYS! Needless to say I am really going to miss my partner, my shadow, my buddy!  So in typical fashion I am trying to get in as many fun things as possible.  I have now realized life in 12 days, our at least our week days will never be the same!

We woke up this morning with plans to go to the water park, however despite what the weathermen said, the clouds and cooler weather were hanging around.  I had always heard about that University of Michigan had a great children's garden and botanical garden.  We checked it out online and Reece was fired up to go!  I packed us a picnic lunch and we headed toward Ann Arbor.  The best part was that Daddy, Gregg, decided to take a half day and join us.

As soon as we got there Reece had some serious ants in his pants.  Despite the amazingly beautiful perennial and herb gardens Reece was sprinting to find the Children's Garden!

What a fantastic area!  Of course Reece ran so fast through the garden he couldn't have repeated a single thing he saw.  However after our "pass through" he slowed down and really enjoyed all the areas.  He pretended to be a spider with a rather large web! 

He found a birds nest!  The only eggs that hatched looked very similar to a handsome fellow who looks similar to um , Reece!

And that was just the tip of the "iceberg"! We made music with natures instruments.  We attempted at making a house, or maybe it was a fort, no a dam, or a tee pee! We then headed over to a garden where we could try all the seasonal fruits and vegetables right of the plant!  Needless to say Mommy and Daddy enjoyed the beans ALOT more than Reece.

After a quick bathroom trip we decided to have our picnic in the beautiful perennial garden.  Beautiful is an understatement!  After we slowed down a bit Reece found a few frogs, a huge cricket ( or what we thought was a cricket) , and a ton of beautiful butterflies.

Before we left we decided to take a little more time to enjoy one of the many trails!  Our trail we followed had fossils by trees in the area.  Holy Cow one of the trees was over here over 90 MILLION years ago!  We also keep our eyes open for samples of the footprints we saw - snapping turtles, great blue herons, or maybe even a deer, just to name a few!

Sadly it was time to go!  This place is a must do again, especially since the admission was FREE!