Going to the zoo, zoo, zoo, how about you, you, you?

Actually we went to the zoo, but I thought it was a cute title. We finally went to the zoo. For those of you who don't know we have been planning to go to the zoo for the past 5 weeks. Every time we planned to go something in our life happened. Take for example about 3 weeks ago, remember my blog about the toilet and all the cleaning we had to do, yep that day we were suppose to go. Or how about the weekend after that, but James got called into work. So finally we on Sunday we just got up and went. No planning just packed all our things and left. Ha, I say packed everything like we were going on a weeks vacation.

Since this was our first time going with a child (baby) we learned many lessons about the zoo and what to do and what not to do.

• Do NOT bring their favorite blanket. Yes, we did this and we didn't even get out of the tunnel and I realized that we lost Easton's green grasshopper blanket. The one he sleeps with all the time. Luckily, their was a nice lady that noticed that we dropped it and she found us.
• Bring a hat for your child, even if it's not hot out. I think we were the only parents that did not have a hat for their child. I did not think to bring one since it was only 68. We had long sleeves, pants, gym shoes on. But at the end of the day Easton's and James' heads were burned. Easton's head wasn't bad but his nose and cheeks were. And we did not think to buy a hat
• Don't bring a reusable bag to hold your wallet, cell phone, keys,  food, bottles, etc. Bring a backpack. We thought we were doing so good by bringing the bag but it made it worse. Every time we went in an exhibit we had to search through the bag to get my wallet, phone, and keys. And my or James pockets don't hold that much. Plus carrying Easton around with all that stuff is hard.
• Don't go when they are holding a 10th birthday party for the children's zoo. There were a million people in one section of the zoo. and of course it was in the main section. Trying to move around people with a stroller and another person is hard.

This wasn't even 1/2 of the people

• It doesn't matter if you want your kid to look at the camera or pose with the animals, they will be intrested in other everyday things. I tried so hard to have Easton pose with animals. I pointed to the animals to show him, but everyitme he saw a goose or waterfalls he went crazy. Hello, we have those things at home. Ok, not the waterfall, but we have water that comes out of a faucet.



Let the fun begin






I wonder what's over there?





Looking at the camels



I give this a thumbs up






Daddy and Easton





What are you doing to me?



Daddy isn't as tall as a polar bear






He's more like a grizzly bear






James and I both wanted to take this picture because
we thought of Spongbob the cartoon. Do you know who this is?
It's Patrick from Spongbob



Not looking at the rock, but the water moving






Not looking at the monkies, but the waterfall





One tired baby

Time is not always on your side

I have mentioned in my previous posts about another couple who blogs and how they lost their baby due to SIDS. Today was their daughter(Maddie) 8th month birthday. She said that some days are harder than others but "Friday I think will be the true test of my strength. Friday is the day Maddie will be gone longer then she was here." That just made me cry. I am so lucky have Easton and celebrate all the small things he has done and will do. She also wrote "So, please remember not every day is guaranteed take pictures of your kids, love on this a little longer, give them 1 more kiss, let them stay up a few minutes later, give them that 1 piece of candy...because you just never know." In taking her advise I played with Easton a little longer today. While giving him a bath I splashed with him, made noises, and laughed.  We read more books than usual and while rocking him to sleep I just looked at him and thought about Kellie and James and how they do not get to have this. I am so blessed.

We love you Easton!!!!

 

Our new family pet

Yes, we adopted an animal. He is so cute. He doesn't mind Easton at all. He makes a mess just as big as Easton does. His name is Kermit. He is our frog.

SO NOT TRUE.

We did NOT adopt any animal, I just thought it would be quite funny to have someone even think for one second that I would have another animal. But the truth is we recently had storm and it rained pretty good. Well Easton's pool was outside and it collected rain. When we went to dump the water we found this nice little frog. But as James told me it wasn't so little. Most frogs are much smaller. Only me, the non-animal lover, would have a big frog in the pool.

I did name him Kermit. Because what else are you suppose to call a frog. And when you look at the pictures there is tons of gross and nasty items(leaves, dirt, etc) that's all from the rain. So needless to say we emptied out the pool, cleaned it, and then placed it in our outside storage room.
I'm just laughing at those people who actually thought that the title was real. Silly people.

Wordless Wednesday



 



And the award for Mother of the year goes to...

Not me. Today was one of those days where Easton decided to wake up super early and I had to take some time to look somewhat decent for work. So while I was getting ready I layed him on the bed with some of his toys. I looked at him every 30 second or so, talked to him, etc. All the sudden I hear him laugh and laugh. Nope, it wasn't the toy that was making him laugh it was.........A PLASTIC BAG!!! I had no idea where he got it from, it had to be laying on my bed and I didn't even realize it.

I told him that playing with that was not safe and it even said it on the bag. But as soon as I took it away he cried. And like I said before I had to look somewhat decent for work(we had important people coming) I didn't have time for crying so I did what any mother would do, I gave the bag back to him. And of course took pictures of him playing with it, ( like taking pictures didn't waste my time of getting ready)

Not only is he playing with a bag, but he has nothing around
the sides of the bed to keep him from falling. Bonus points!

Yep, I'm letting him eat the plastic bag

If you can't tell it's around his ankle

See, now it's around both ankles

After the photo shoot I took the bag away and made
him play with non life threatening toys

So, yes I may not win the Mother of the Year Award, but at least I can say that I let Easton play with "dangerous" things when he was little. Haha