Fun at the beach....

We just love a great Sunday afternoon with our friends at the beach! Daddy even went body surfing - he got out when he saw unknown fin nearby - he assumed it was a dolphin and we later confirmed it was, but still! Scott was so mad at me for not letting him get in and swim with Daddy!

SBZ

Today we hit the zoo again! It was the perfect overcast (but not too cold) day!

And extra special because Abby and Sarah came too!

We picnicked and played at the fountain first thing!

Then we saw literally every exhibit! It was awesome! And I don't think Scott let go of Abby's hand for one second!

Chinese Alligator - we asked Scott if he wanted to pet it, he said "day" (okay!)

Great picture of the kids! In front of the vulture (I'm sure we could have picked a more appealing animal for them to stand for their portrait but our friend Kelly likes vultures (and knows all the kids) so Sarah was trying to text her a picture, so I used the opportunity to get one too...and I never got a second chance)

Zoe the snow leopard

This is Scott watching Zoe - he would have gone in the cage (he would have gone in all the cages for that matter) had he been allowed

Last zoo trip the gorillas were at the vet, but they were there today, definitely mommy's favorite

Parker J. is ALL DONE!

We also saw the giraffes (I thought I posted a picture but evidently did not and I'm just too lazy to go back and find it and then put it in the proper place...you've seen a giraffe before so you get the picture). I mention them because Scott can say giraffe - "gerofffffff" its very cute. He can also say Abby, which usually comes out "Abbybaby" - funny stuff!

Recycling

Confession: yesterday it took me like 3 hours to do the dishes. This is actually not uncommon. I get distracted, say by a little boy who puts a grocery bag over his head (paper, see pictures) and runs around and thinks its hilarious, even when runs into things because he can't see. This just begs me to stop what I'm doing and do an impromptu craft. So we cut a window into the Whole Foods bag and TA-DA!!! Hours of fun! So thank you to my wonderful husband who comes home to half done dishes and moderately cluttered house and happily cleans up our "learning experience"!

Once there was a window for Scott to see out he thought it was extra cool! Below he had taken the bag off then tried to get it back on by himself - backwards buddy!

"Tuck, TUCK!!!!" (Stuck - a favorite word!)

Right after this picture was taken Scott got un "tuck" by ripping out of the bag incredible hulk style!

Then we explored...

Way cool mom!

What a grown up little boy we have! (minus the bald head making him look like baby still - LOVE IT!)

Afterwards we colored the back - which may have been more fun to do before then wear it as a costume but I don't think Scott is quite patient enough yet.

We are FARMERS!

Scott's Daddy has been working super hard on the Farmer's Classic which is coming up in less than two weeks! Scott got to try on one of the cool visors his Daddy designed to show his support for Farmers and all his Daddy's hard work!

His very own...

When Scott goes to play at Cardio Barre, his very favorite thing (if I've told this story before please bare with me) is to play with the plastic horses. There is a big bucket of plastic animals in the kids room, all types of animals, but Scott goes through the whole bucket and picks out ALL the horses and plays with them the whole hour. He shows each one to Sarah (and other kids who don't really care so much) and plays with them and gives them all kisses (and tries to get the other kids to kiss them too, it is a mystery to Scott why anyone would not love horses as much as he does and why they wouldn't want to kiss the plastic ones!). When we leave he says goodbye to the horses and gives them goodbye kisses. So I figured it was high time I bought him some plastic horses of his own.

Last week Scott came to my office with me and was such a good and patient boy, so afterwards we stopped at the toy store to buy some horses. There was a whole rack of plastic animals....Scott was in seventh heaven. He looked at all the animals, but when he saw the horses it was D-O-N-E! He practically screamed "neigh neigh"! He tried to get 5 or 6 in his hand at once and when he couldn't he would pat each one and kiss some of them and put them down to pick up another. He fell in love with one of the horses pictured below with the blonde cowgirl on it. I think its because she reminds him of Abby. So we got that one, then I picked the others because there is no way Scott could have chosen, plus he was so into his cowgirl one that he stopped caring about the rest.

So now we play with "neigh neighs" every spare minute we have. Its the toy he likes to take with him in the car or to hold when we read books. He even puts one in his crayon tray of easel while we "druh" (draw).
Below: kissing his horses

One excited little cowboy!

A boy and his book...

Scott cannot get enough of his "neigh neigh" book (mentioned in previous post). Yesterday I found him in his bedroom reading it to himself having tucked himself into a blanket to sit with his bear. He loves this book!

If you drink don't drive...do the watermelon crawl!

These pictures are from tonight's BBQ @ Zoey's house, but I felt they were deserving of a post all their own! Stinkin' hilarious!

This boy loves him some watermelon!

Soooooooooo delicious! Scott ate a bit much (see previous post about watermelon: revisited, but he didn't throw it all up) but man was it good and fun and messy goin' down!