Animals mommy... Animals

Jarod has been asking for a week to go see the animals... he LOVES the zoo. I've been telling him we'd go when Grandma and Grampa get here. So on Thursday off we went to Jarod's delight to see the animals.

First mistake: the adults were starving so we went and ate first... Jarod... not happy - although while we were sitting there we saw about 5 baby peacocks.

Second mistake: Jarod wanted to see the Rhinoceros (by that name)... but we decided to go see the polar bears and take a stroll through the cat walk... Jarod zoomed right threw all of it... wanting to see the Rhinoceros. Finally we went on Safari through Africa... I had my doubts that he'd even know when he saw the Rhinoceros.. well call me dumb.. he saw it... let out a huge 'Rhinoceros' and had a most delighted look on his face. We stayed looking at those Rhino's for quite awhile.. When one came to his feeding trough Jarod was calling it... and patting his chest (see pictures).

The last time we went Jarod had a great time feeding the ducks and huge fishes... this time... Jarod just wanted to eat the bread himself... great planning on my part as I had some seriously old bread to share... so we quit that experience.

I think a good time was had by all.

Who's at the Zoo?

Jarod at the Zoo

Some of the Zoo Animals

We have.........a TOOTH

Yesterday we were all sitting in church and Rebecca had Zachary... she gets a surprised look on her face and says 'oh my gosh.. I feel a tooth'. I thought.. yeah right! Sure enough.. my little bugger has cut his first tooth. It's on his bottom front.

Rewind to Friday: Zach was at home with Jake most of the day and has just been a fuss bum. Jake has said he thought it could be tooth related and I just passed it off. The kid has been drooling since he was 4 months old and we've had no teeth. It pains me to say.. but I guess Jake was right!

I swear by this time Jarod had several teeth... and I'm sure not looking forward to the first few coming in.. it's soooo not fun!! But yah for 2 milestones in a week: army crawl and teeth!!

What I enjoy...

One of the greatest things about summertime for me... is flowers! It took me a really long time to find the flowers I wanted to fill out my planters. But for some reason this past week I just went flower crazy. So right now all of my planters are on the back porch - waiting to find their permanent homes. I figure since I'm keeping a 'journal' I'd just chronicle my plants success (or heaven help us; failure) right here. So here are pictures of my plants as I planted this past week. If I can keep them alive long enough to my move - I'll have no worries b/c the courtyard is a wonderland for growing flowers.

My flowers - May