How about You, You, You?
You can come too, too, too!
We're going to the Zoo! Zoo! Zoo!
That song gets in my head and I can't shake it!
On Wednesday of last week, I heard that my sister and some of her kids and grandkids were in Des Moines and going to the zoo that morning! I'm not THAT far away and talked to my boss about taking the morning off to see her. He said SHURRE!
So after attempting to wake up Leon unsuccessfully (he literally grumbled, "I don't WANT to go the zoo!", off I went! and had a wonderful time with Ruth Ann and company!
Ruth Ann wouldn't let me pay my own way into the zoo since it was my birthday and when the worker heard that, he said, "We have things for you!" and let me pick out a birthday sticker and gave me a free pass to ride the train! I'm not going to ride the train alone, so I had some of our party come with me. A couple of my nephews, grand-nieces and a niece-in-law.
I was headed home around 1ish and got a call from Leon, who had just woken up. "Where ARE you?!"
"Um, I went to the zoo and am on my way back!"
Immediate tears!! "You went to the zoo withOUT me?!!!"
It took some convincing to explain that he is a sleep-liar like his dad. I had asked him 3 times to go and he said NO. So I promised him that we'd go again on Saturday.
And yes we DID go on Saturday too! It took some convincing to get him to get out of bed that day too! Cripes he needs to get to bed sooner in the evenings!! School is starting in a month. Might need to wake him up 15 minutes progressively earlier each day until then.
Jen, Ryan, Aggie and a niece and her family joined us and also my mother-in-law.
I got there early enough to score a free wheelchair loan so she wouldn't have to walk all around it. So I got a workout! Which I needed anyway.
Leon is only looking like that because he tries to discourage me from taking pics.
I need to be sneakier.
And Aggie got to hang out with a 2nd cousin and the 2nd cousin's cousin!
If you can't tell, Aggie is the smiley one.
Lots of pool time this summer. Aggs is enjoying the water a lot and Jen is enjoying our family pool pass. She said they were going to be pool rats this summer and they're making use of it!
And we played Yardzee and with bubbles on the deck one day and I noticed that we were caught on our security camera. Gotta save those memories!
Anyway, that about brings us to current. My life is a rush and here we are.
3 comments:
Belated Happy Birthday wishes! Sounds like a fun way to celebrate your birthday. Love the pics and sweet Aggie. She has grown so much.
Hope the rest of your summer is filled with fun and good memories.
Those "where are you" calls from my kids are why I refused to replace my phone for a good 10 years after it went kaput. I only replaced it with DD's old one this past fall when she headed off to college on the east coast.
Happy birthday.
That looked like fun times at the zoo. Funny that Leon lied in his sleep. I hear I do that, too. Happy birthday!
Post a Comment