A baptism, Body Worlds, Discovery Museum, and a loose tooth

Last Saturday was a big day for us! In the morning we got to attend my neice Sydney's baptism. I just LOVE going to baptisms!! It's obviously the Spirit that is there, but it's just so neat for me! I loved that it was the day after the 21st anniversary of my baptism, and I loved being reminded of the covenants that I made. It was especially neat because Sydney was the last grandkid to be born before Nate and I got married. I guess it was kind of sentimental to me to have been there for her blessing and now her baptism. The first grandkid for me to have done this. I just love Sydney too, I think she's such a sweet girl. She's always so generous and loving toward Charity and Kelly, she'd do just about anything for them I think. She's been such a good example for them as well. Charity felt really privileged to be able to witness her baptism as well. I'm so glad my kids have so many cousins to look to and experience these things with them so that they know how things go. What a neat experience.
After the baptism we all went to Chuck-A-Rama and Jen treated us to lunch (so nice!). My kids were in heaven with the food choices, and with the endless icecream and treats....I don't think I've ever seen them eat that much food all at once. Bradley went from "I'm hungry. I'm starving. I'm hungry." to "I'm full. My tummy hurts." to "I'm bored." in under an hour! We were going to try and stay till dinner but....no, jk.
So after lunch we headed on up to the Gateway where we were going to meet Stephanie at the Discovery Museum. Stephanie and Chris (Nate's friends from school and OK and now our future game night buddies and work out pal) got me tickets to Body Worlds for my birthday AND offered to tend our kids while we went. So then Saturday Stephanie decided that she wanted to take the kids to the Discovery Museum at the Gateway (WAY NICE!!!) and then ended up getting us a membership since it "wasn't that much more"!!! So we left the kids with her and her mom, and walked, yes, WALKED up to the Body Worlds!!! It was like FOREVER AWAY!!! :) Nate's idea :) he didn't think it was too far. My husband is so optimistic :) The walk was actually really nice, and although we were shivering most of the way there, was really a pleasant break from the norm. So if you haven't seen Body Worlds (you probably won't since it's over in a few days and sold out) but if you haven't, let me just tell you....it was INCREDIBLE!!!! WAY BETTER than I had even imagined it would be! I don't know if anyone knows how obsessed I am with the human body and how much I enjoyed studying it in school, but this was like Christmas all over again. I was seriously just in awe at the whole thing. They had different "plastinates" (you'll have to look up what these are, or ask Nate, I couldn't explain it right) arranged in just really artistic poses to represent which muscles and organs are being used....then they had casts of the blood vessels in different organs and in a while body and in a CHICKEN!! JUST the blood vessels, nothing else!! Do you realize how incredible that is!!! And I think my most favorite thing was the embryos and fetus'. They show an embryo at I think the first one was 4 weeks and then had the following weeks. They had the beginning of the 7th, middle of the 7th and end of the 7th week and they all looked SO DIFFERENT!!! SO MUCH HAPPENS in such a short time in that first trimester. You could see teeny tiny little fingers in just the second month!!! They were so tiny and so cute!! Heavenly Father does some pretty amazing things....pretty miraculous. Totally made me want to have another baby......what else is new though! They also had the fetus' up to like 32 weeks which I thought interesting since that was the gestational age that both my nephews Marshall and Charlie were delivered at. Pretty crazy to think how small and helpless they are at that age and yet still have enough to survive. Just miraculous. The whole body is just so miraculous. It really gave me a greater appreciation for it again. Anyway...enough rambling, sorry. I just thought it was very impressive. I hope it comes to Utah again and that I get to see it again sometime. Very cool.
So then we walked back to the Discovery Museum and Stephanie and taken our kids over to McD's. She totally spoiled us rotten that day!! Thanks again Stephanie, if you're reading!! The kids totally loved the museum. They talked about it all on the way home. Along with Charity giving us minute by minute updates on the status of her loose tooth. I had been begging her to pull it (only because she kept crying about it hurting) for at least a week. And it was more than ready. I am not sure what we said that night, maybe it was Stephanie's influence as well (thanks for that too), but she wanted me to pull it when we got home. So first thing after we walked in the door and she had her jammies on, Charity came to me with a paper towel and her mouth wide open. I pulled her tooth! Crazy as that is. Kinda took me back to the days when I would wiggle my teeth and pull them. She was very brave, didn't even flinch, just got all excited for the tooth fairy to come :) So now she has lost 3 teeth!! I guess that's just how it's suppsoed to be, but I want her to stay little and the teeth pulling thing isn't helping with that. So anyway..... What a fun day for all of us.