A Day At The Zoo

Today is Saturday and Ron was off. We started our day with a family breakfast at home and then headed for the Santa Ana Zoo. It was like 56 degrees today, but you would have thought it was 30 the way we were bundled up in jeans , long sleeves and fleece. I forgot the camera! Ugh! I hate when this happens. The SA Zoo just added a carousel a few months back and we had not seen it yet so we thought it would be fun to go check it out. It was a great day. We even ran into our friends The Kelleys. Sharon and Jason have twins, Ella & Evan, that are the same age as Emily and Sarabeth and they have a third child, Erin, and she is 3 days younger than Abby. Needless to say, we play nicely together and the kids have been playing together since the twins were like 9 months old. It was fun running into them. We were on the carousel and Sharon said Ella shouted..."Mommy, there's Emily and Sarabeth!" What a small world. Anyway, we ended up playing at the playground together for about 45 minutes after we finished feeding the goats and checking out the farm animals since we had already ridden the train also. The kids were so excited to run into friends!

After the zoo we ran some errands and took the girls to Islands for dinner. They love Islands. If you ever ask where they want to go to eat...it is always Islands. The whole day was relatively uneventful. Just a nice family day. The funny stuff starts when we get home. Emily announces that her pants hurt and that she only likes to wear SOFT pants. Translation: leggings or sweats. She starts whining about how they are too small. Within 15 minutes or so, all three of them are in their underpants. I am FREEZING in the house looking for a sweatshirt and they are running around in long sleeved t-shirts, underpants and socks! They are playing library. They have a stack of books from their bookshelf and are discussing the process of checking out books. Abby has chosen a book about binkies and how it is time to give them up. I said before .....this is a another post. Sarabeth has decided they are going to a volcano in South America and she has loaded up her stroller with babies and the necessities. The best item...yellow plastic binoculars. She's standing in the corner of theroom watching all of us through her binoculars getting ready to start her expedition! Maybe they have been reading too many Toot & Puddle books.......