I decided to take the girls to the zoo this week and Pops and Auntie Krista came along with us. It was a pretty day, and although we left before one, it did feel pretty warm even for a morning in June.
The girls were excited. We packed sandwiches and snacks and some ice water, made sure the wagon was in the trunk, and headed to Fort Worth to check out the monkeys, elephants, and giraffes.
Janie navigating...
Janie loved to see the monkeys, or at least talk about them, the entire time we were there. She said "monkey" on repeat until we were far enough from the monkeys to forget about them. She made monkey sounds {loudly} and was generally entertaining.
Baby monkey!
Janie with Pops: "Where's the monkey?"
Cutie!
Looking at more monkeys.
Gorilla watching with mommy.
Nora loves to see all the animals, too. We got to see baby animals of many varieties while there this time: monkeys, lions, giraffes, and elephants - that I can think of off the top of my head. We fed the ducks by the giraffes. We ate a little bit of our sandwiches and a lot of our goldfish snack and stopped in the cool aquarium on the way out of the zoo. Nora again liked the elephants best and is excited for when she can go again, "with Mimi this time."
Walking to the elephants!
Looking at giraffes!
Feeding the ducks.
Feeding the ducks.
I took the girls to the library to check out new books. Nora was on a mission to get "The Very Busy Spider" and a funny shark book but while we were looking at the spider book, a Clifford book caught her eye so that's the second one we took home. Janie picked out two new books from the board book collection and I was pleasantly surprised that she did not rip books off the shelves while we were there. I tried to talk to them in the car about that on the way there, but I had no idea if Janie would really understand or be able to "contain" her excitement.
We were going to attend story time, but there was a special program of a traveling theatrical program about Jack and the Beanstalk. So, we sat through that and both girls did well. Nora asked "What's happening?" so often that the girl behind us started asking her own mother the same question every time Nora would. Sorry about that...
We headed to the car and went home for naps, which have been such an ordeal lately. Janie has hit the peak of separation anxiety and cried off and on for about 90 minutes before actually falling asleep. I went in there multiple times, patted her back, sang her songs, rocked her until she was literally conked out... she would still wake up and cry. UGH. Nora has been not into napping so much these days. She seems soooo tired but then just lays there and reads and eventually gets up and starts playing with something. Or going to the bathroom. This week we struggled. And I really need nap time.
We went to our weekly summer movie at the theater with Mimi & Pops. This week we got to see Rio 2 which the girls both seemed to like. Nora laughed quite a bit and Janie sat pretty still and quiet through the whole thing so I assume she was entertained.
We also went to the Grapevine library for story time & music class later in the week. This library has some pretty great things for the kids to play with in their children's area, which I really appreciate as a mom. Nora enjoyed doing some puzzles and Janie liked to play with the big blocks with different twisty-turny parts and beads on wires.
Janie had fun with the scarves and everything really!
Nora participated, which I was very happy about...
Sorting shapes!
It was a good week! We spent most of Friday at home so that I could pack for my trip to Colorado. I will miss my sweet munchkins but am looking forward to spending the weekend of the 4th with them!
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