Back to the Zoo

More zoo! More zoo! Kate loves it, and so do we. It's 10 minutes from our house, so why not.

One of Kate's favorite places at the zoo is the petting area. All the goats and lambs.

We scrubbed her little hands afterwards, and I scrubbed those shoes when we got home. :)

Kids at this age are so funny together. They still don't really play together, but they like to look at each other to see what they're getting into. This little girl had just learned to walk.

Kate likes this bus a lot.

And the slide was her absolute favorite!!

I know this is a bad photo, but check out her face!! She loves it, but you can tell there's a little bit of scared until she gets to the end.

Weee!!!

Bouncy things are good. Then we are exhausted and go home.

So it was Labor Day weekend... we went twice!! I know, we are crazy. But we have the family pass! It's basically a free trip when we go now.

Kate has learned how to go up the steps to the slide. We supervise at the top though.

I'm sure we will be going to the zoo lots more in the coming months.

Before I go, here's a new thing that we get in Kate's Bouncing Bears class... the bite report!

If your child bites someone or gets bitten, you get this little sheet in your cubby at the end of the day. Poor Kate, she's gotten 3 bites so far!

Very exciting news: I'm the Room Mom for the Bouncing Bears class! I was asked if I would do it, and I accepted. It's pretty easy - I had to get all the parents and kids information in the class so I could send out emails. I keep all the parents informed of things going on at the First School and also things going on in our class. If the parents have an issue or suggestion or anything, they can contact me. And then I found out that I'm also responsible for getting a card and a cake for the teacher's birthdays! That's OK, too, since I like to make cakes (but I think I like to make them so that I can eat them... oh well).

:)

Playing Outside

Kate has learned how to say "outside". She will go to the door, look over to us and say,

"ou-sii?"

We've been collecting the fallen pecans off the ground in the backyard. But we are on the move! Can't stay still for long.
We head to down the driveway to the basil where the bumblebees are..

Kate calls them "bu-bus"

We were so lucky to see our good friends Amy and Trey this past weekend, and they brought their daughter Hannah Claire. Kate had so much fun playing with Hannah Claire. Here they are both looking out side and saying, "Da-da!"

Hannah Claire brought Kate some sidewalk chalk. She loves it. It gives us something else to do "ou-siiii"

I had to play, too.

Picking up berries from the dogwood tree (we finally don't eat everything, thankfully).

Kate goes to the zoo

James was so excited about taking Kate to the zoo.

It's been super hot, but we decided we had to go see her reaction to the animals.

She pointed and talked to the animals a lot. It was so cute!

Hello Giraffe! Hello Elephant!

It was so hot, we stayed for an hour and headed out. We were all sweating to death, and Kate immediately fell asleep in the car. We got passes that last for a year, so we will be spending some time at the zoo once it cools off - it's been so nice the last few days.. maybe we'll go this weekend!

Next on our list.. the aquarium!

Kate goes to the beach!

We had a great time at Myrtle Beach in August.

We went with Mel, Lisa, Melissa and Stan. It was so fun and relaxing to get away for a few days!!

Kate wasn't so sure of the beach. It was really her first experience since she was too little to do anything last time.

As I feared, she was not a fan of the sand or water. Is that crazy?? I thought so, but we went with it. :) Any time she got sand on her hands, she held them up for us to clean them. She wouldn't walk on the sand without her Crocs - good thing we got them.

Check out the shoes! We are shoe obsessed these days.

She loved wearing her sunglasses... for a little while. She took them off and put them on about 10 times.

And Aunt Melissa took her on some walks, which she really enjoyed.

The last time we went to Myrtle Beach with the family.. it was about 7 years ago? Melissa was only 6! Time flies.

Can't wait for our next trip to the beach. Maybe we will like water by then. :)