My animals visit zoo animals

Doug had lots of school work to do and the boys were loud and obnoxious. We needed to leave. We hadn't been to the zoo in awhile, so we went. I wasn't excited to visit animals in the cold air, so we hit the indoor stuff, the trails. The first thing you come upon is the Tropics Trail. I like that one. We saw all kinds of stuff: fish, turtles, birds, lemurs, red pandas, a hedgehog, and various other animals. The gibbons were on maternity leave. Then we went through the Minnesota Trail. It is partly open air. We saw beavers, mountain lions, wolves, a bald eagle, otters, more fish, and stuff about owls. They have these papers with squares with the names of certain animals, like the paddlefish, and paper embossers. Kids match up the drawing next to the embosser with the drawing next to the squares on the paper, put the correct square up in the slot, and press the handle as hard as they can. It puts a cool imprint on the paper. The boys had to do it. When we came out of the Minnesota Trail, you end out where you see the Tropics Trail, so I was lead that way again. When we came out of there, we went through the Minnesota Trail again. Of course, they had to do the paper thing again. I guess they had fun.

Jericho is racing a big dump truck across the kitchen floor from entrance to entrance. "One, two, three...'tum" (here I come). He gets to the end and says, "I wose (lose)! Yeah!" I'm laughing my butt off!

Gabriel amazes me again

Sometimes my kid really amazes me. We just finished watching Horton Hears A Who and he asked me: Mom, does the Grinch live on a speck? Not only did he connect the fact that both are Dr. Seuss stories, but he also realized that both main characters are voiced by Jim Carrey.