Another Zoo Day

HIGH: A fun Zoo day with Grandma :)
LOW: We missed Auntie Erin and Owen :(

Today Grandma joined us  for another fun day at the Zoo.  Claire loved filling Grandma in on the stuff to do there.

Claire and Oliver love their trip to the carousel.  They waited in line very patiently for it to be their turn.

Daddy does the carousel and I do the train.  The carousel make me sick to my stomach :(

I didn't think there would be a lot of animals out today because it was so hot but I was wrong!  All the animals were out, even the lions!  They are NEVER out!!  While we were watching him he walked over to the viewing window.  So of course Mark grabbed the kids and ran over there.  The lion stood right up and looked right at Mark and the kids.  It was crazy!!  

He was very calm and just looked around.  It was amazing!  Oliver loved it!  That is until nap time when he woke up screaming "NO YION!! NO!!  I NO YIKE IT!!" I think he had a nightmare and he kept looking his backpack on the floor and pointing at it saying "NO YION!!"  So I explained that the lion is at the zoo with his friends.  Then he was alright until bedtime.  He was fine while I gave him his bath, got his jammies on, read our books, and sang our songs.  Then I turned the light off and he FREAKED OUT!!  "NO YION! HE AT ZOO WIT HIS FWENDS!!"  He finally relaxed and went to sleep but I think the lion was a little much for him today.

And we ended our Zoo trip with our usual train ride.  Oliver goes nuts over this and it is so fun to ride with him.  The woman today told me that I couldn't ride with the kids and I just told her "Oh no it's okay I go on with them all the time.  Thanks."  No one was keeping me off that train!

Oliver thought it was so cool that Grandma sat in the back seat with him.  He kept saying "Hop in Gwamma!  Hop in!"

Claire brought her journal to the zoo with us today and drew everything we saw.  It was really cute.  Here is the train.

On the left is the elephant.  I am not really sure what is on the right though. I don't remember seeing an octopus but apparently Claire saw one.

This was the lion at the window.

This one is by far my favorite.  This is a picture of her Daddy.  Check out the hair.  I love this!

After dinner Claire couldn't wait to bust out her jewelry maker from Aunt Sue and Uncle Greg.  

She worked so hard making her jewelry.  

The jewelry maker is actually pretty cool.  The jewelry came out super cute! I even made some beads.  Claire was thrilled with her final products (don't mind her dirty nails, the clay got a little messy).

Here are some of the beads we made.  Claire was so sweet, she had a list of people that she wanted to make jewelry for.  I love this about her.  She is so thoughtful and she never forgets the nice things people have done for her.  She even wanted to make something for my friend at work (who makes real jewelry and she always spoils Claire).  She told me "Oh Mom, we can't forget Miss Cindy!!  She always makes me such beautiful jewelry!  I need to make something for her too!" 

It was yet another perfect summer day!  Tomorrow we are off to pick out tile for our new kitchen and then we are off for a night night at the casino to celebrate our anniversary!!