Family Fun Day!

Blake was off today for MLK day so we decided at the last minute to take the kids to the zoo! We typically don't do anything spur of the moment as I am SUCH a planner, but we got the kids ready, got ourselves ready, goodies and necessities packed from snacks to blankets to pullups to extra change of clothes to nebulizer and we were off! On the way, we prayed for good weather and safety and boy, was the weather beautiful! It could not be more perfect! We, however, didn't expect there to be SO many people there. It was so crowded! Mostly families, but we did see several "Super Moms". Blake and I define a "Super Mom" as being a woman who is out BY HERSELF with 3 or more children. I, however, will never be a "Super Mom". The ratio that works for us is 1:1! haha!

Now that Brody is 21 months old, he is really starting to recognize animals and he sure did enjoy seeing the "phants" (elephants), giraffes, sharks, fish, bats, snakes, and most of all, "ROAR!". That's what he calls the lions. While we were there, a lion decided to show off his vocal cords and boy did he "ROAR!". Like 20 times! Blake thought this was so impressive, but my maternal instinct kicked in and my first thought was let's get the heck out of here, we need to protect the children! Blake says that a lions roar can be heard as far as 20 miles away. The sound I heard was the "I'm about to jump out of this cage and bite someone's head off" type roar. Needless to say, we have no pictures by the lion's den!

After a little over 3 hours at the zoo, we were exhausted!