What happened in Vegas (Day 3)

 

Something I loved about this vacation was the fact that I was able to get up before my family every morning and workout.  The gym equipment was mediocre, but 21 flights of stairs, now that's a workout.  However, I don't understand why in the case of a fire you are directed to use the stairs when it took me three days to find them.  Whatever.

 

We spent the third day swimming (of course) and then went to the Bodies Museum.  We didn't intend to go to the museum since we had the girls with us, I just didn't think you could take kids, but we saw a brochure and noticed it had prices for kids so we asked Brinley if she would like to go.  She agreed, so we went.  We sort of rushed through it because their attention span is shorter than ours, I would have like to read everything had we not taken them.  The human body is so AMAZING!  Brinley really liked it and learned  a lot, like what cancer looks like, and what smoking does to your lungs.  I will never forget the impact the babies had on her though.  There is a whole section of babies, first she saw a set of conjoined twins and her eyes started to tear up.  I think it was the reality that those were real babies.  She said seeing the babies made her want to have a baby brother or sister.   There is a part that shows all the stages of babies in the womb.  The first one (I think it was 10 weeks) was just a speck.  Brinley was fascinated and couldn't believe that she used to be the size of a crumb. 

 

The other day I stood and watched her at Gymnastics silently thinking, she's almost 7, look at her, how did that happen?

And then today she woke early and crawled into my bed while I was getting ready, she rested for a bit, preparing herself to start the day.  I jumped on top of her, threw my arms around her.  I kissed her forehead and ran my fingers through her hair.  I spent several minutes studying her, the cemetery of her face, the arch in her eyebrows, the fullness of her lips.  I pay particular attention to the freckles that have developed on her nose, they are like the ones I used to have.  She is perfect!  And I too can't believe she used to be the size of a crumb.