Not an overly structured educational day today – I slept in to try and speed along feeling human again, and the kids spent a portion of time in the backyard creating… something. BUT our afternoon – a lightning trip to the zoo nearing closing time. Our passes are up on Friday and I am still pushing for that trip to the conservatory. BUT the zoo was fun. Of course we ran into a family of 2 kids on the way in who asked us if all the kids are ours (??) and the proceeded to say – and we thought two was hard. Now honestly people, do you THINK I haven’t heard that one before????

Ken and the kids

So we visited some of our favourite animals – the lemurs, the elephant, the llamas.

Lemur

The tiger was REALLY active, walking around and when we were a distance away STARING at us! I wish I could have gotten a picture but he moved before I could.

Looks almost pettable!

It was not a long visit but we even splashed our way through a few puddles before heading home! Definitely a fun way to end our time with the pass and the zoo. We even ran into a mom and her little girl who mentioned they were at the zoo with their pass as well. Funny how for the kids the puddles were almost a bigger draw than the animals themselves. Especially when we have spent the past year going as often as we wanted. Can you believe that for the first trip we took Trinity was in a stroller and now she runs and climbs and is one of the big kids!

PUDDLE

Trinity and Petite Sheepette

Our next stop was the fruit and veg store where I got us a nice selection later used for supper and a fruit salad! Gavin and I worked on it together. So much fun!

Fruit salad

And then the Dollarama. It is going to be a very pink party! With each of the kids picking a special treat for themselves and Trinity getting a pink sheep for Echo we had a nice haul to bring home. Now we have all the decorations together for the party I just need to send Ken out to laminate the kitties.

Briefly trying out the cart!

Oh we did have a bit of excitement at home yesterday – I was brushing out Trinity’s hair for bed and I noticed a tiny chunk removed from the back!!! Only noticeable when you are really looking and brushing out her hair but I was about in tears. I had just the night before put up the scissors where the twins would have issue with reaching them let alone the little ones, they have been in a tupperware container with a LID and everything. Or course when Ken went to find out what happened Emanuel started to take the blame and try and find the hair even though he didn’t do it just to make Ken happy. Which did not… drama! Oh, and the twins’ excuse as to why they didn’t stop her when she got scissors – they couldn’t find her?? Oh dear! And all cuz I had lay down on the couch with the baby asleep and turned on Handy Manny on for them for 30 min!

So I took some time out of my evening and got a few more of the mocked up scrapbook pages filled. I need to get this stuff squirrelled away, moving in May or June or not.

2009 Zoo

2009 Halloween!

Definitely kept us busy today and tonight we do our trial batch of our birthday cupcakes. Thursday night is going to be a BIG baking night in anticipation of Trinity’s party to be sure!

Best ride at the zoo