This Weeks Top Ten

I worked Monday and Tuesday so didn't have the energy to do a ten on Tuesday last night. But here are our top ten for the week.

1. Friday we finally made it back to the OKC Zoo, this time with Grandma and some beautiful weather. We rode the train and the carousel and tried hard to get Zane to be excited about our new Zoo, but he seemed to spend a lot of time asking about "our zoo" meaning the STL zoo. I don't know what to tell him, but did find myself missing it a lot as well. But we are now officially friends of the OKC zoo so we will power on. There are lot of playgrounds at the OKC zoo, though possibly less animals.

 

I easily have a dozen pictures of Zane and I on random trains, love them.

 Did I fail to mention that Zane wore his conductor hat the entire day. It was a big hit!!

 Here is Ro baby, waiting on the Centennial Choo Choo!

2. The highlight of the trip for me were the Lorikeets in the Children's Zoo. We got to walk through and feed them terribly expensive nectar, try to pet them, and Zane tried hard to get one of them to stand on his hand, with no luck. But they were really cute and very noise. Here is Rowan petting the birdies.

3. In other good news the boa constrictor was slithering around in his cage and completely freaked Zane out, "mom we gotta find a way out of here." So maybe we won't have to visit the Snake house every visit now. Rowan and Grandma made the wise decision to sit out the snake house and eat animal crackers on the bench instead.

4. Saturday we finally made it out to see Brendan's Dragonflies play some seven year old soccer. There were lots of people there to cheer him on and lots of kids to play soccer with on the sidelines. For the first half of the game Brendan was the only boy, which was entertaining. The Dragonflies suffered a tough loss, but played hard. It was lots of fun, even with the crazy wind that made my allergies kill me later in the day. Well worth it! I love the Dragonflies!!!

 Here is the star player with his little cousin. So sweet! Yes, the entire Korenak family dressed in Dragonfly Green!

 There was lots of soccer action on the sidelines with the little kids as well. Even baby Ro, in his adorable Cardinals hat, got in on the action!!!

 

 These two crack me up.

5. Saturday evening Zach and I got to go on a date night, courtesy of Uncle Able and Aunt Kari's babysitting service. We had a lovely dinner at Iron Star BBQ then saw American Hustle, for four dollars, at at a tiny movie theater. It actually was a really good movie that I would have paid full price for, but you can't beat a two dollar movie. Many thanks to Able and Kari for hanging with our boys so we could have a much needed date night!!!

6. This week marked opening day for major league baseball and Monday was the Cards home opener. So of course we spent all week singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame at our house. Sunday I finally gave in and bought Zane some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks, since my description of Cracker Jacks really wasn't doing it justice. Of course Zane loved it and kept saying "it just like candy popcorn" which had been my description of it all week, but I guess you have to taste it to understand. 

Here is Zane proudly displaying his big bag of Cracker Jacks!!

7. Zach spent most of the weekend working on our taxes. This drives Zach crazy and having two states and the Federal taxes to do it takes a long time. We went from some crazy huge tax return to owing like $200 to MO, then ended a whopping $60 ahead after Oklahoma's. The upside was that Rowan fell in love with daddy's beloved calculator. He has been walking around with it all week. He looks like a little old man crunching numbers.

8. Zane's current love is the Muppets. We saw the preview for the new Muppet's Movie when we saw Mr. Peabody. I told him I watched it as a kid so then he really wanted to see it. We watched the first Muppet Movie and he is now obsessed with the Rainbow Song and Kermit, who he refers to as Kermit The Frog Here. So funny!!!! Imagine his delight when he found this little Kermit in Walgreens. I couldn't pass it up. He has cuddled it every night since and has almost perfected his Kermit voice.

9. That's all the fun news, the other news is that we still are making two house payments and two sets of bills a month and it's terribly stressful. I am making lots of money, doing nothing, but it all is disappearing into a house we don't live in. We don't know what to do about it and could use lots of prayers, advice, or I possibly donations (kidding) :) Needless to say the stress level here is high. This weekend is my first weekend shift since going back to work and really dreading missing all the family fun we have been having on weekends.

10. This afternoon Rowan woke up from his second nap burning up. A legitimate fever out of no where. I'm still not sure what is happening. I'm hoping that it's due to his getting five teeth at the same time and not yet another ear infection. The green snot pouring from his nose has decreased, so I'm puzzled by it. So instead of the doing the numerous things on my goals list for this afternoon I snuggled a burning up baby and watched Dumbo. I know Ro doesn't feel good when he will actually lay his head on my shoulder while awake. I'm hoping tomorrow he feels better so we can go up to Grandma's for a quick farm day! Fingers crossed!