Downtown Aquarium

Last Friday Isabelle and I went to the Downtown Aquarium. We met up with my good friend Debi and her 3 kids. Isabelle absolutely loves when she gets to hang out with Claire, Lucas, and Emma! Belle spent her time following them around and Claire taught her a few new animal sounds, like how a tiger roars. Belle is getting really good at making animal sounds now! The tigers were exceptionally exciting for her to watch (and me too). They were huge and we got so close to them!


She also loved looking in all the aquariums and watching the fish swim around. Fish are really amazing to her. It may have started with her musical fish tank we have hanging in her crib. She's always loved to watch the fish move around, watch the bubbles float up, and listen to the music. Sometimes in the middle of the night or early in the morning we hear her tank go on. We've peeked in a few times to see what she is doing and she has turned on the music and is just laying back watching and listening it until she falls asleep again. It is really sweet! So, to say the least, real fish, in a real tank was extra cool for her!

Here is Debi, her mom, Emma, Claire, and Lucas as we first enter.

Here are a couple shots of everyone having fun looking in the tanks.
Claire did a really good job at teaching Isabelle some facts about fish...

They also had some fun climbing through holes and looking up inside of the water bubbles....

I think now we'll have to go buy One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

And here are some of the animal sounds Belle has mastered.....