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The Living Coast Discovery Center
A few years ago I wrote a post about the Chula Vista Nature Center. The twins were about 18 months at the time ... wow time has flown by, I can't believe they'll be 6 in a couple of months.
Anyway, three days this week they attended Shark Bites summer camp at the same location. Only it's no longer called the Chula Vista Nature Center, it's now the Living Coast Discovery Center. It's still just as amazing as it was back then, and although the kids couldn't remember having been there before, after the first day of camp I showed them the photos and they were amazed that they were seeing some of the same things.
The camp was beyond fabulous, they experienced so much during the three afternoons they were there. I've got a few photos to share, but here's a short summary of what they did during camp:
- Hand fed stingrays
- Touched marine life such as horn sharks, sea stars, horn shark eggs, rays, and a sea urchin
- Did lots of arts and crafts
- Collected plankton to view under a microscope
- Played games
- Watched sharks being fed
- Learned all about the sea life and food chain.
- Dissected a fish
- Took a behind the scenes tour and even saw a baby octopus
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Does Your Child Need Glasses?
If you have a child who needs glasses, I've got a few tips to help you choose the right ones, and help your child adjust to wearing them.
It wasn’t until Flynn was in kindergarten that we discovered he needed glasses. How could we have not realized this sooner? It’s not like he had been home with us all the time, he had already been in pre-school for 2 years. However he was sitting in the back of the class in kinder and was playing around instead of doing his work when we first knew something was wrong. He was also undergoing ADHD testing at the time so we thought his inability to complete work was primarily because of this diagnosis. We moved him to the front of the room where the teacher could keep a better eye on him and that seemed to work, for a little while at least. Then he had a check-up at the pediatrician’s office. They noticed that something didn’t look quite right on his eye exam and referred him to an ophthalmologist. After numerous tests it was determined that he had blurred vision in one eye and he would require glasses.