yesterday we packed lots of stuff into our day!
the kids were both being a little sassy in the morning but we still headed over to the zoo to meet up with my niece jana + jessica and their boys! *sage was the only girl out of the 7 cousins...but she didn't even notice!* i'm so glad we went. the kids had fun. sage is so funny because jessica and jana are my age but are sage's first cousins. but she thinks it's hilarious when i say they are her cousins so she calls them her friends.

this is what emerson did most of the time. :) and sage LOVED petting the goats.

here she is crying because she's so sad does the bear look so cuddly? :)
we had to move on from the goats.

sage and donny and schuyler all wanted to pet the sting rays and nurse shark so i went with them...
i think the boys did pet them but sage just wanted to watch me do it. and i did. *so not like me!*
the shark wasn't too bad...just kind of rough. but the sting ray=NASTY. it was like slime! i pulled my arm away so fast that i hit my elbow on the side...lol. i'm sure someone got a kick out watching me freak out.

here are the budgie birds. i think that's what they are called! for $1 you can buy a popsicle
stick with about a pennys worth of bird seed glued to it. but sage LOVED it. you can tell
by her face that she was totally enjoying herself!

after the zoo we all headed back to my house for pizza. thanks jana for running to get it!
i just love that i have such awesome nieces. they are such great friends too.
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after they took off my friend liz + her little boy grant came over to visit for a little while.
my kids were so tired and clingy...so we didn't get to visit as much as i'd have liked!
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right when jim got home we took the kids over to michelle's so we could go on a DATE!
this is rare. we really need to make more of an effort to get out by ourselves at least once a month!
we just headed downtown + had a good dinner + listened to the band play for a bit.
during the summer the local classic rock station does free outdoor concerts downtown.
honestly the people watching was more entertaining than anything!
and one more thing...emerson is looking like he got in a fight.
he is SUCH a busy little boy right now! he climbs on anything and everything!
last night he bonked his chin on a rocking horse...and today he bonked his nose really hard on a chair!
the left side of his nose is still pretty red + he has a little bruising by his eye! i'm really hoping he doesn't wake up with a black eye! it was so hard getting a picture! it looks worse in real life!
can you tell he didn't want me to take a picture of his chin? lol that's the best i could do.
anyways! yesterday was a very fun + very busy day.