We are really enjoying this time together as a family and yesterday we took Brooke to the Virginia Aquarium.  She had an amazing time walking around and looking at all the exhibits. It is exciting to take her places now that she has turned a year because she really acknowledges and responds to her surroundings.  She is a blur of motion in most of these pictures because she loved everything so much she just kept moving and looking at all the different things.  She wasn’t too fond of seals but enjoyed the seahorses, fish, and turtles. She even tried to get into the water with the manta rays but the pool was really cloudy and hard to see. I think if she could really see them they probably would not wanted to have jumped in.  It was a wonderful and fun afternoon.