A trip to the Zoo

Also towards the end of summer was our trip to the Zoo. I don't remember much more than just having a ton of fun together as a family.

I love how in this picture you can tell that Grace was much more interested in the ketchup than the hot dog.The highlight for the kids I would say was the feeding zoo. We have always had a special place in our hearts for goats, so I can see why we loved this part. I think they could have done it all day...

If you look closely in this picture you will see a red water bottle in with the racoons. Yes, it was ours at the beginning of the day, but as soon as it slipped from Davey's grip it became property of the racoons and they were fighting over it! Majorly fighting, like we were worried we started civil war among racoons it got so vicious. Anyway, I don't know why they put racoons in a zoo when you could see one so easily anywhere trash is present... In the end I was glad we gave the poor caged animals something to liven up their day.

Blogging is good for me because as I do it I remember more details that I certainly wouldn't have remembered otherwise. But now that I am thinking about this day I remember loving a display of some sort of tiny monkeys that just had babies and you could see them snugly holding on to their momma's back. It was the cutest thing ever! I remember David, Joey and Grace putting their arms around each other and chanting something odd they came up with as they walked around while Derrick and I were resting on a bench in the shade with Abby.

Playing catch-up

I hate it when I take such a long break from blogging. But here is my attempt to catch up...

The end of summer came and left before I had time to say goodbye! A few highlights from the last month were Joey's birthday party one month late. He had a great time with a few friends and Bay Beach. And then we topped it off with a bonfire and pinata at Gramma's house. It was lots of fun!


The other pictures I had from summer were these from a random Sunday when David got the bee in his bonnet to make cupcakes. We were making them from scratch and right after we got started Abby needed to nurse, so I told the kids to take a break and we would come back to it. Well, David sees no need for me in the kitchen while he is making cupcakes, and as luck would have it he did a great job! I couldn't believe he even made it through the part where we were out of milk so he had to actually make milk from our food storage powdered milk. I said from the other room, "Why don't you just wait for me and I'll make the milk and then you can measure it?" He said, "well, if I just pour a little in and then some water and taste it I can do it myself" And sure enough, he did it, tasted it and said, "this doesn't taste like milk, so I'll pour a little more in" which he did and then he was finally satisfied with the taste of the milk so he poured his cup in. I said, "did you measure it before you poured the milk in?" He said, "no" so I went out there thinking he had just ruined all the batter and so I poured water into the cup he used until he told me how much had been in the cup. I measured the water to see how much milk he had poured in and sure enough, it was almost exactly the amount he needed. I couldn't believe the luck of this kid, but sometimes I think it is just shere determination that drives him... anyway, they were wonderful in the end especially when we decided to use our fresh raspberries from Grampa's garden in the frosting. Nice work Davey!  He actually ate these, unlike the pumpkin pie he was dying for me to make from the pumpkins we got from Grampa's garden.... that is another story...