Kids Day 2013 and News

 A few weeks ago Jess and I decided that Saturday should be Kids Day.  If you remember, it started last year because Paige asked why there is Mothers Day and Fathers Day but no Kids Day.  This year it started with waking them up to chocolate chip pancakes by Jess.
This was also the morning we found out we will be a family of 6 this October.  :)  Appropriate to find out on Kids Day.  We didn't tell the kids until a few days later, and everyone else a week later, like this:

Back to Kids Day.  Next we went by the library, then to lunch at Sonic-one with a big, frightening playset.

Then on to the zoo.  We got annual passes, since it'll pay for itself in 3 visits, plus we can get one visitor in free.  So prepare to go to the zoo, future visitors!


Cason had only had his cast taken off the day before, and was still walking with his foot kind of cocked out to the side, and stepping carefully.  So Neely mostly rode in the backpack so that Cason could get in the stroller any time his leg got tired.  He walked a bit, but mostly was in the stroller.

There was a big play area, but we made the kids wait til the end for that.

We checked out the bird room first.

Our favorite by far was the Tawny Frogmouth.

They were so cute and looked really fake, like something from the Never Ending Story.  I expected him to open his mouth and talk to us, in a voice similar to the giant tortoise from the movie.

There were statues all along the paths, and the girls wanted their pictures taken on them.


Cason wasn't into that, he thought they might come alive.

Pretty soon we found a path through a "bamboo forest", where we saw the tigers.


 
 It's weird how you know about these animals but then when you're actually up close you're blown away that they are real.  God is an artist.

Most of the tigers were lazy, lying around on the rocks, but one of them was funny.  He was feeling playful, and kept stalking the others, pouncing and trying to get them to play.  They just ignored him and he finally walked off.

 They were behind chain link, but later we came across an indoor area with displays and facts on the walls, and a huge window to watch tigers in a little area with a pool.  We had it all to ourselves for a few minutes, and a tiger, I kind of think it was the playful one who had wandered off bored with his friends, entertained us.  The kids loved it until Cason found out from a picture on the wall, how tigers eat.  Then he wasn't very pleased.  He hates tigers now. 

We saw a few more big cats.

 Then the chimps, who were hilarious.  There was the cutest baby walking around collecting sticks and things.  Then this adult-walking around in his poncho.  He'd stop and adjust it if it slipped at all.  He was so funny.

Next we saw the elephants.  They had a big waterfall in their exhibit, I think they might be the favorites.

 
The baby was so cute.  Cason and Neely both fell asleep around this point,


so we woke them up to play in the kids play area for a bit, and called it a day.  On the way home we stopped for dinner, and I can't remember the name of the place, but it was SO good.  I had spaghetti pie, and the kids stole most of my food because it was the best. 

Speaking of good food, turns out we can't go get burgers at the burger joint we loved.  We went again last weekend and after we left Paige's lip started to swell a little.  We even went to the ER because her epi-pen was expired, just to be safe.  I had given her benadryl, so they gave her something for any delayed reaction, and watched her for a bit, and we went home.  They gave us a prescription for a new epi-pen and we got two from this place, instead of just one, AND it doesn't expire for a while and was cheaper.  It was really annoying to pay 100 dollars for one that expired really quickly last time.  Anyway, she was fine.  But we will have to avoid that restaurant in the future.

So yes, we are having another baby!  We planned to try around March, but in our usual style we got pregnant a bit earlier.  We are really excited.  We waited longer this time, which wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.  Knowing it might be our last made it easy to push back.  I don't want to be done so quickly.  I felt good that first week.  Then the next Friday I felt a bit weird in the morning.  I kind of thought I was imagining it, but by Saturday I definitely had morning sickness.  I've spent a LOT of time on the couch since then.  Over a week now.  :(  Jess has been awesome, doing most of the work and coming home to make us lunch.  If I manage to do a load of laundry we're lucky.  Ha.  I usually get the washer started, and then run to the bathroom on the verge of throwing up.  Then back to the couch I go.  Ha.