WOW at Norfolk Botanical Gardens

Sophia and I went to Norfolk Botanical Gardens today to check out their new permanent exhibit called WOW (World of Wonder) for kids. It was so much fun! They have an amazing park set up complete with "swings" and sprinklers. Check out the pictures.

Will and I got married at the Botanical Garden and it's just beautiful this time of year. We started in the rose garden where we saw ducks and Sophia simply had to get out of her stroller and chase them. She LOVES ducks right now. She signs and says the word now, but I seriously thought these ducks were going to attack her after a while so we had to move on...

On the way to WOW we passed some Garden employees. They stopped us to inform us of 2 snakes up ahead on the path and warned us to go the 'long' way around. So I was able to get in a workout this morning while we checked out some of the other flowers and trees along the way.

Sophia was a little timid to go into the sprinklers when we finally got to WOW, but that didn't last long. She was soaking wet in no time. She literally ran from sprinker to sprinkler and couldn't get enough of the water. Did got clobbered when the sprinkler stream switched from "small and gentle" to "big and mean", but kept on going!

I could tell she was exhausted when the only thing she wanted to do was "relax on the swing". We had a such a good time that we became members of the garden so we can go back every week, but next time she's wearing a bathing suit!