zoo lights

we went with the pierces to check out zoo lights at the woodland park zoo. it was flippin' cold, but we were prepared and bundled up and got expensive hot cocoa (except pat who had clam chowder because he is a weirdy!) and it was pretty fun. the children were pretty much just humoring us while we looked at christmas lights and nocturnal animals, biding their time until we let them ride the carousel. carousels are pretty great, i guess. after zoo lights we headed back home and made personal pizzas and exchanged gifts, but i'm a bum who took no photos of that. you can imagine in your mind, what that must have looked like. penelope got beckett the game, hoot owl hoot and i highly recommend it. it's a cooperative game, but it isn't super lame like i imagined cooperative games might be. this was our official last christmas activity... bye bye holidays, see you in 11 short months. 

woodland park zoo

i had the sigl ladies for a few days and they were desperate to go to the zoo. i was nervous to do a four on one seattle excursion, but gosh darn it if i'm not a people pleaser... even when it comes to children! so we went, and it was pretty much fine. jane likes to imitate all things involving heath, so she had to bring a baby and a car seat (for safety...duh), and a stroller, and a diaper bag packed with all the same things as my diaper bag. it's a good thing the whole idea of it is precious... or i might have freaked out the 5th time that baby came bouncing out of it's car seat that was shadily jammed into the stroller and jane had a panic attack over the welfare of her child. oh man. i love my little mini me. AND he will never ever remember or realize this, but it was heath's first trip to the zoo! oh baby boy... you are growing up quick. 

zoo part two...

through a crazy series of events (not really that crazy) whitney and i switched memory cards in our cameras. she had some goodie good zoo pictures, which i stole... along with 500 other photos. not even exaggerating. and i wasn't like a creeper who stole pics of her family or something. here are some of them. if you are over our zoo trip, skip this post. 

the sky is not blue...

let's go to the zoo! last saturday, i got a text message from anna that said they were moving away to napa in one week! such a sad story. we decided to have one last friend-o play date before the dunnes moved and it had to be a goodie. so we went to the zoo. since it was beckett's first trip to the zoo, i pressured matt into taking a looooong lunch and coming with us. it was good to have an extra adult so we weren't outnumbered by small children. beckett did okay at the zoo. he did not want to sit in his trike and really just felt in his heart he needed to be free to walk around in whatever direction he chose. matt and i spent a lot of time chasing him around. also, the zoo is a little depressing. i mean... caged animals are always sad, but also why does it seem like every single animal of every species is going extinct? probably because we keep capturing them and putting them in zoos where they get depressed and stop having babies. humans can be real jerks. anyways, it was overall a successful zoo trip and we had a fun time. we will for surely be missing foxXx, tyler, anna, and nick... they better come visit us a lot.