TWO MONKEYS AT THE ZOO

Jace had a fieldtrip to the Zoo on Friday and he was kind enough to allow his little sister to tag along. By the end of the day I was ready to volunteer them as the next new addition, they would have fit in perfectly with the monkey exhibit.



Taking 2 kids to the zoo is not an easy task. There were about 4 million (okay maybe not quite that many, but way too many) other kids there on field trips as well and of course Paityn was not having any of riding in the stroller, so I was paranoid of losing one of them the entire time. All of the kids just blended together and mine would not stay by each other for anything. Jace begged me to go back in after lunch in the park, but I told him we were going to have to wait until Tim could come with us to help watch Paityn. Poor kid, it would have been really fun if she would not have been there, but he was a good sport about it.

Notice how all of the pictures are of them on toys. We go to the ZOO and all they want to do is play on the toys. The only animals Jace even wanted to see were the giraffes, the rest of the time they were trying to find something to ride, play on, or drive. Jace even ran and jumped in one of the little zoo trucks becuase he thought it was a toy. I'm surprised he didn't start it up and take off.

A Day At The Lake

I LOVE summer!!!! Yesterday was GORGEOUS, so we decided to take the kids to a lake just outside of Boise (there are lakes closer to us, but we had never been there before and someone from work had told Tim that there was good fishing there). The kids had a blast playing in the water, which was freezing but actually felt pretty good after sitting in the hot sun for a few minutes.


You can't really tell from the pictures, but there was quite a lot of beach and the mountains were beautiful.

Jace is going through an "I don't want my picture taken" phase, so he seems to have the same expression on his face in every picture. Oh well, hopefully he gets over it soon.




Paityn hasn't been around the water a lot, but she did really good. The first thing she did was run out in the water up to her bottom, which she was fine with until she fell down and was then sitting on her bottom with water up to her neck. She freaked and wouldn't get up so Jace had to save her. After that she was a little more hesitant and would only go in up to her knees. She really liked the raft though and we spent most of the time out in it. What a great day!