Week 13-Part 2

After coming back from the doing the crafts, the kids, Gabe and I went outside to play for a while. The kids love having us outside to play but they like to play by themselves too. The older two decided to sit on daddy's back and then I put the baby on his back too. They were having a blast, laughing and being silly.

That night after I visited the bathroom, I went to check on the kids and saw that my middle child, Kaleb, put his hand through baby sister's crib and touch her head. I asked Gabe if he knew what Kaleb did and commented that he did not. I told him to go look and he smiled. I had to take this adorable picture of my younger children.

Friday morning we set out in our car and started our drive to the zoo but had to make a stop to Wal-mart to get pull ups and diapers for the younger two. It was supposed to take us 33 minutes to get to the zoo. @@ Got hit with traffic because of the accident and then we got on Zoo Drive and found the line and took us forever to find parking. Found parking and went to find our friends (playing phone tag with two other moms). One called back and said.. forget the zoo. List of reasons why--the computer system was down so had to use cash and too many people in the zoo and have to fight about 40 people to see the animals.. not so worth it. So Gabe and I took the children to the park and the merry go around. We found a picnic table so we can eat, well the children.. we bought snacks for them but not for us adults. The playground they were at were an universally accessible playground for all kids of all ages. It was awesome. Kids loved it.

The kids played for a bit then we went on the merry go around. I tried to
put Kairi on one of the horse on the merry go around.. she freaked.. so I just sat on the bench and held Kairi. Casey and Kaleb liked it. Casey wanted to go on it again but told her next time when we come back to the zoo, we will go on the merry go around.

On the way home, I made some weird sounds and the kids covered their ears. lol. It took us about an hour or so to get home since we hit some traffic because of Good Friday and Easter weekend.

Saturday morning we walked to my mother in law's church for an Easter egg hunt. First we sang songs, had raffle drawings for the kids and story time. Casey won one of the raffle. Then do the egg hunt. Kaleb went with the 2 to 4 years old and we put Casey with the Kindergartens and she did wonderful. Her grandma was with her and she picked what she can and was not greedy like some of the kids were. @@ Kaleb did okay.. he would pick one up and decided that he did not like it and put it back down.. did it a few times and then he started putting eggs in his basket. lol He's so funny. The kids had cupcakes after they were done with the hunt. Kairi did not do either because she is too young. On the way home daddy pushed the double stroller and I carried Kairi.. and let her walk half a block home.