Ten on Tuesday

1. We have had a break from the rains the past two days, which was much needed for some outside running around time. The boys spent all afternoon in the backyard yesterday, not all of it running, there was lots of learning and coloring to be done too, but they definitely needed some sunshine. Baseball was cancelled yesterday since the fields were flooded but was back on this evening, with team pictures before. This evening we played the team coached by former OSU baseball players, so it was a bit of a blood bath, not helped by it being played during everyone's normal bed times. Zane played first and was oblivious to life most of the time.

2. I forgot to mention what my Mother's Day present was in my Mother's Day post. Zach got me a fit bit Charge. Which I guess is what all the cool kids are wearing these days. It tracks my steps, calories burned (still unsure how it calculates that), and my heart rate. It has a food tracking app that goes with it and would track my sleep patterns but I am never going to want to sleep in a watch. The app doesn't do well tracking how far I run when I'm on the track, just like everything else, but I so far have really liked it and got to my goal of 10,000 steps before noon yesterday!

 3. Spring has definitely sprung around our neighborhood, besides our turtle find yesterday we have seen lots of other signs of spring, such as worms, goslings, and there have been a few more sittings of Mary with her baby ducklings. All every cute and very exciting to my little ones. 

 Mary and here babies, I am afraid there are a few less babies than the last time I saw them!

 And theses geese and their babies were in our yard one day when we got home.

 4. This week, for some unknown reason, both boys have really been into wearing hats. I find everyone adorable, but this particular set, on the way to the farm, was by far the cutest. The matching Moolys really push it over the top.

5. I hear storms are suppose to move back into the metro tomorrow and Thursday. I hate heading to work not knowing when or if I will be coming home. This time I'm going to be prepared though with my a change of clothes, my own tooth brush, deodorant, and probably something to sleep in. This is seriously crazy town!

6. As I briefly mentioned in my previous post Zach is in the very early stages of trying to design a tree house for mom's house. Zach is an engineer and I am confident could build any number of amazing tree houses, but in reality  we probably don't need a huge crazy tree house. Needless to say the plans are being pared down and I keep reminding him my tree house was one piece of ply wood for a floor, a couple of 2x4s to keep us from falling out, and it was awesome. One way or another hopefully there is some sort of place for the kids to play in the trees soon. I think anything would be tons of fun.

7. Today Abbey flew back to D.C. so we got to hang out with Maggie all day. The original plan, which I obviously didn't put much thought into, was to go to the zoo. It was going to be a nice day, why not? Well because it is the last week of school here, that's why!!! When we pulled up to the zoo at 10:00 this morning there were easily thirty buses already there and half the overflow parking lot was full. Mom and I knew that this would be a complete disaster/mad house. So we changed our plans and headed to the Museum of Osteology further down I-35. On the way we saw some tornado damage, which Zane thought was pretty awesome. There were two buses when we got there, which was manageable, and everyone had a great time. Our favorites were the snakes and penguins (including a Rockhopper) of course!

 King Cobra!

 Elephant tusks

 Rowan, taking notes on the snakes!

 Inside a Rhino

Ro checking out the cat heads.

 Zane in utter amazement of the flightless bird exhibit. There were six different kinds of penguins!!!

We also saw an ostrich and Bald Eagle egg which was amazing.

Grandma was nice enough to get everyone a little something from the gift shop before we headed to lunch at Sonic!

8. One of Rowan's favorite phrases right now is, "I watch Mickey on the TV." We usually cuddle and put Mickey on in the morning, but Rowan rarely actually watches any of it. Yesterday, instead of watching Mickey, he went and found the Mickey hat and became Mickey. Lots of fun before our trip to the gym.

9. After nap time today things quickly spiraled into a hot mess of fits, whining, pooping in our pants, and not being nice. As many of you know, by our family song, these are the four rules of our family, no fits, no whining, don't poop in your pants, and be nice. That simple. It was a debacle, followed by baseball pictures, and a 7:15pm start time for this evening's tball game. Needless to say it was a rough afternoon/evening. Here is my personal highlight. Rowan came driving around the corner, into the kitchen, looking like this!

 And baseball ended at eight fifteen, like this. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

10. Lastly, Zach felt like the scorpion we saw deserved an updated picture, to prove just how awesome it was. So here is the close up Zach got while thoroughly pissing off the scorpion. Aren't you way more impressed now?

 

Ok off to bed, wish me luck with actually getting to come home tomorrow!