The Zoo

Finally, we got to get out of this house and enjoy the weather!

I took a couple hours off of work which was perfect because it seems as if I spent all morning dealing with many many "officials" from South Dakota and medical records people. Between the two of "them" it was a long enough morning.

We met Stacy and the twins and her friend Michelle and her kids at the zoo and spent three hours letting the kids "tear" through the place. Emma and her new "posse" seemed to be getting more and more crazy as the time passed and it was certainly time to go at 4:30 to beat rush hour traffic.

Tonight at bedtime Lauren and I couldn't find her latest favorite book, "Dora's Bedtime Stories." I am not only a detective but an even smarter mom. :)

I remembered that a couple nights ago Emma tried to "borrow" it at night time because she knew that's what Lauren wanted to read AGAIN!

SO, Emma claimed that she didn't have any idea where it was BUT, she is thankfully a horrible storyteller/fibber. I opened her closet (no search warrant needed) and didn't immediately see it so I finally got a little more of a serious voice (bad cop) and told her to "find it!" She went into the corner of her closet and pulled it out for me and said as seriously as she could, "I wonder how it got there?" THAT did not even deserve a response. Then her excuse was (cause Emma ALWAYS has an excuse) is that she is "tired of hearing those baby stories at night." I told her she could sit in her room while I read it to Lauren and she said, "but I can still hear it." Then I invited her to sit in the basement tomorrow night while I read it to Lauren and she decided that she would try to sit in her room with the door closed. :) GRRRR!!

Anyway, tomorrow as Emma would say is "Good Ole' Friday." (Good Friday) :) She says that it's called that because "at Mass, the gifts aren't offered." Who would have known? (probably Grandma Sutton)

Here's just a couple cute pics from our outing: