Camden Children's Garden

This weekend we took the kids to the Camden Children's Garden.  It was a super hot and humid afternoon, but the kids were troopers and were rewarded by running through the splash fountains at the end of our visit!

Daddy goes through the life cycle of seed with Sean ...

... while Clare whipped up some fun in the kitchen - "I makin' dinner! I helpin' Mommy"

Uh, Birdy? We already have a play kitchen at home, remember?

Next up was the butterfly house.  If we thought the butterfly house at the Academy of Sciences was warm, then we had no idea.  This butterfly house had to have been at least 400 degrees with 200 percent humidity, but Sean was really into it - he loved looking at all the butterflies and the caterpillars inside the shed.

We took a ride on the merry-go-round - Sean tried to match his jaguar's roar:

We stopped by a statue of Walt Whitman - Sean said, "I LOVE this statue - it's so beautiful!"

 

We spied a frog prince at the frog grotto:

We took a little break in the giant's garden:

The kids had fun running and hiding in a little network of tunnels:

Daddy and Sean in the dinosaur garden:

We put the kids in a dinosaur egg so they could hatch - Clare was not a fan :-(

Yay! Clare! We're hatching!

Happy again, sitting on a bug:

Finally, we reached the exit and let the kids splash around in the sprinklers to cool off:

Clare didn't really like going in the sprinklers, she'd rather supervise from the sidelines...

I brought an umbrella into the Gardens with us since the forecast called for pop-up thunderstorms.  We didn't need it in the park since the storms held off until just after we all got buckled into the car ...

... after enjoying some ice cream, of course!