April 15th

April 15th is going to be D-Day (delivery day). My Dr. scheduled the induction at the hospital yesterday. That only give us a month to have fun before our new addition comes. So, today we went to the zoo. I was confident that I would be fine walking all day. But, it was pretty exhausting.

 

The Hogle Zoo has changed quite a bit over the last 2 years (since my last time there). Some of it is great and we loved it. Some of it was a little disappointing. They are in the middle of major renovations and you really only get half of the zoo experience, until the construction is done. But, at least we had coupons and the kids got in free.

I would have taken a picture of the rhino's, but all we could see was their gigantic butts. So, we settled for option B, the statue. 

Porter really did want me to take the picture, but the sun was in his eyes and he wouldn't look at me. 

This is in front of the new polar bear exhibit. It was very cool. 

These are the new polar bear statues. Apparently other children don't know that they need to get out of the picture if it isn't their mother taking it. :) 

Overall, despite my huffing and puffing from walking the hills and being 8 mo pregnant, it was fun and we always enjoy our time together as a family!

Spring

We are very excited for it to be spring and since the weather has been nicer we are taking advantage of it. We went to Wheeler Farm. It wasn't nearly as busy as when we went last October, but we still had fun! As you can see in the picture, it as nearly deserted.

This turkey was in love. We took a picture of him in full feather and left before the mating calls became effective. 

Who needs a dinner plate when you can stand inside your hay bucket? 

Bryson loved the chickens almost as much as he love splashing in the mud. 

The lambs were my favorite.  

This week in school the boys made paper bag puppets. Tonight they gave us a puppet show. 

Most of the pictures came out blurry from the rapid movement and over abundant singing of twinkle, twinkle little star and itsy-bitsy spider (or as Porter says ipsy-ipsy spider). 

Byrson's puppet turned into just a paper bag. That was because Porter decorated it for him and Byrson pulled off the eyes and tongue. Bless his heart.

Death of a Sippy

Bryson narrowly escaped death this evening... Let me explain. I bought him a new sippy that has a pop top because he accidentally spills his drink at the dinner table EVERY night. This evening, after dinner, he took his sippy (filled with red juice . . . . do you know where this is going?) downstairs. While Josh and I were in the bedroom he proceeded to splash it everywhere, carpet, couch, my crochet stuff (including very expensive yarn for a baby hat I am making) and clothes (he told me that he was pretneding it was blood). When I found him I almost lost consciousness. This is the WORST thing either of my kids have done so far..... Knock on wood! Oh, and yes, I threw the sippy in the garbage along with all the juice!