Growing Up So So Fast

Oh My! Where is the time going. Check out my young lady!

Zoo

A few weeks ago we took the kids to the zoo when Aunt Liz was visiting. Everyone has their faves:

Mommy loves the Penguins
Daddy loves the gorillas
Sissy loves the camels, huhn???
Buddy loves the Bears.










There was a new baby elephant that was born just 4 days before and was amazing to see. How cute they are when they are babies....just a few hundred pounds about a just about 5 feet high LOL. It was already up and walking and nursing from it's mommy. Dylan also loved the seal statue. Here are some more pictures.

Silly Boy



Sweet smiles

YUMMY!

It's so cool that Marissa likes yummy food and likes a great variety of things.

Yesterday the "boys" had a Pirates game to go to so the "girls" went shopping and out to dinner.

Marissa has been begging to go to Applebees for a while so that's where we went and we weren't very hungry so we shared boneless buffalo wings and a salad. YUMMO!

Flip Flapping Fish in the Back Seat

Sunday my friend Michele had an Elmo theme for her sons first birthday party.

As a gift the kids got Gold Fish (yes live gold fish) in bowls to take home.

Well we covered the bowls with saran wrap and were on our way home. Dylan was nodding off and Marissa & I were trying to keep him awake, but in a lull in our driving/talking/singing he either nodded off and tilted the fish bowl or pulled off the saran wrap but all of a sudden half the water was gone and there was a fish flip flopping around the back seat of my van.

I pulled over and asked Marissa to grab it but she was squeamish (this is a girl who picks worms out of dirt and makes homes for bugs) so I had to go back there and get the fish back in the bowl. I couldn't get the saran wrap back on the bowl, but I found one of the balls from Dylan's Wiffle Bat set and put it on top and drove the rest of the way home.

So we have an addition of 2 goldfish to our family now. No names yet...although we've been batting around Dorothy 1 and Dorothy 2 (after all they were from an ELMO party), Maura & Reagan (after twins that Marissa knows), Nemo & Dory....