This last weekend was a pretty fun-filled one. I took Friday off so I could take the boys to the zoo with Shelley, Sean, Madeline, Cheyla and my friend Byrekka. It was Quinn's first visit to the zoo! The boys did fine, but there were school buses full of children for field trips! So it was insane inside! It took everything I had not to start knocking children over so I could get mine through the crowd. Quinn wanted to walk around for a while holding my coffee cup (empty) for some reason, and if any of us took it away from him he'd scream "COFFEE?!" so we let him hold it. He had to have the monkey harness after a while because he didn't feel like holding hands... and then when that wasn't any fun anymore, back in the stroller he went- he screamed a little and then realized his situation wasn't going to change and just resigned himself to sitting still.
Ronin and Sean measuring their wings
Quinny holding his "coffee" and holding my hand
The kiddo's posing
Quinn sporting his monkey-harness and saying hello to the fake penguins, while holding his coffee
Monkeys
Shelley, Byrekka and Me
This was his favorite part of the zoo- lunch time.
Ronin and the bronze lion cub
Sean and Ronin
Me and the boys -- Quinn doesn't look too happy here
After we got home the boys were hungry so I made them both peanut butter & jelly sandwhiches, which is kind of a new thing for Quinn - he just recently started getting peanut butter and he LOVES it- this sandwich made his day I think.
Posing with his brother
Really enjoying it now
You'd think it was full of cheese from all these cheesy grins ;)
Happy boy
The boys sharing a chair
On Saturday we took the boys to a fishing derby in Woodland at Lake Merwin. It was a great day to be out there, no fish where caught but the boys got to paint a fish and smear it on a tshirt, get raffle prizes, and Ronin caught a salamander with his bare hands- in which I had to convince him it would not make a good pet so he should let it go.
Quinny getting ready to paint his fish
Quinns fish-shirt
Ronin and his salamander
Quinny is pretty fearless and wanted to go IN the water
Both Quinn and Ronin's fish shirts :)
wearing his shirt
Wearing his fish shirt too
Sean spent the night Saturday night and we also had to celebrate Brookes birthday so we had dinner on the river at the Puffin Cafe and then took a boat ride to the boat house to sing happy birthday and eat cake.
For a while now when Ronin whines "mommy... mommy... mommy..." I tell him "there is no Mommy, only Zool." (Ghostbusters quote). So he and Sean were scheming and I heard Sean say "go ask your mommy..." and Ronin replied "Her name's not Mommy, it's Zool." ha ha!
At Puffin Cafe
In the cabin for the boat ride
Later that night they made a fort under the breakfast bar and watched Pinnochio before going to sleep.
Quinny wearing daddy's hat
A couple of weekends ago I did a "tree monitoring" event for my work where we go out to a tree planting site and write down how many trees are dead and why-- but the whole property was under water, and eventually it all seeped into our boots and we were soaked. It was actually a lot of fun! here's me and my coworker Tamera before we were soaked:
Yucky water!
The boys are doing well, Quinn's eyes look sooo much better and he cut two bottom canine teeth this weekend. Ronin has a backpack for school now and we are slowly filling it with things he'll need to start kindergarten. Tomorrow is our 6th wedding anniversary - we are taking Thursday off to go see a movie, go bow/arrow shooting and get some lunch all without kids, should be a good day :)
Lots of love,
C
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