Day at the Zoo

This morning the boys & I left the house at 7:30am to meet up with Colleen, Joey & Jamison at the metro so we could go to the DC Zoo. The boys were very excited about riding the train, seeing the animals, and hanging out with Joey & Jamison. We got home around 6:30pm so it was a long, but very fun day!

This deer was not part of the exhibits at the zoo. It had wandered into the zoo and was just walking around with all the people. It didn't seem to mind people getting close to it. It did decide to run away after a little while though.

These two were so fun to watch. I took a ton of pictures of them! It was a baby and mother that were playing the whole time.

I loved watching the big daddy lion playing with the lion cubs!

The boys got to pet a few animals in the children's area which they thought was very cool.

All three of the boys thought it was funny how the Toucan was talking to them. This bird was following them around the exhibit just yelling at them. It was pretty funny to watch. Of course once I got the camera out it just stayed in one place.

Swimming Videos

Today at the pool I took the camera so I was able to take a bunch of videos. All of the videos are pretty loud because there was a party going on with a DJ so you can't hear anything the boys are saying, but that is not the important part anyways!

4th of July

On Monday we spent the day in Annapolis. I always look forward to 4th of July in Annapolis and the boys do as well. We left our house around 10:30am and got home close to midnight so it was a very long day, but we all had a great time!

When we first got to Annapolis the boys played in the yard with Jamison for a while.

They took turns playing all 3 positions

(catcher, batter, pitcher)

Hockey was the least successful

After we had lunch the four of us walked to see some of my friends. Our first stop was to play with kitties. Many of you will think we are crazy (which we already know) when I tell you that we are looking at getting a new kitten. VZ is really my cat although Zak has pretty much won her over and taken her from me. Ryder tries so hard to get on her good side, but she just doesn't seem to like him very much. He is always saying he wants a cat that says meow and actually said he wants one for his birthday. So we are thinking about getting a Turkish Angora kitten for him because every time we go to my friend's house her cats are all so social and let both boys pick them up and play with them. Then we walked around the corner to see another friend and catch up since we have not talked in a while. The boys had fun playing with all of the kids there at the block party as well as getting to feed the fish in their fish pond.

Once we got back to Colleen's house we pulled out some water toys for the kids to play with since it was pretty hot. They played with a sprinkler and a water hopscotch game. Ryder spent a lot of the afternoon eating the watermelon though.

Of course there had to be a lemonade stand. This year there were lots of helping hands so for next year Joey is already talking about setting up multiple sites with all of her little workers!

We then went to the parade at 6:30pm. Nathan was giving out lots of hugs which seemed to always turn into a headlock with Zak. Ryder wanted a hug too.

When we got back to Colleen's after the parade for the cook-out there was a surprise waiting...Chelley, John, and Maddie had come over for a little while. We had a good dinner and then hung out until it was time for fireworks. Chelley, John & Maddie left just before the fireworks because Maddie is not a fan of them.

We tried to get a picture of all of the kids and this was the best we got.