the zoo + a myriad of other things

On Friday Seth experienced the zoo for the first time.  He loved it!  My friend, Lainie, and I took our boys to the San Francisco Zoo for the day.  He wanted so badly to just explore!  And honestly, he could have cared less about the animals like the giraffes, tigers and penguins.  He loved walking through the tunnels, climbing the bridges and walking along the curbs.  Haha!  BUT he did love the family farm/petting zoo section.  They had pigs, llamas, chickens and alpacas to look at and goats and ducks roaming around that you could pet (or in Seth's case: chase).

Seth and Jonas in their Jeep (which they ended up spending very little time in because they wanted to get out and explore on their own).  Oh and now every time I ask Seth to "Smile!", he squints his eyes, as seen above.  Haha!

At the family farm, "feeding" the ducks with the gravel he was picking up off the ground

Looking at the alpaca

Brushing the goat

Chasing the ducks

A rare moment: actually looking at the animals!  Prairie Dogs in this case.

The boys were pooped out after the zoo (and so were us Mommas!).  They fell fast asleep on the way home from the zoo.  It was a wonderful time and I'd love to go again with Jack too.

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In other news, I caught a rare glimpse of Seth sleeping this past week.  I normally never see Seth sleeping in his bed because he puts himself to sleep and I'd be crazy if I wanted to go in there to check on him.  But when he decided to take a three hour nap, I decided I should probably make sure he was still alive.  He was just totally conked out!  Look how big my baby is!

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Over the past year since Seth has been mobile, Jack and I have "lost" certain items.  Most of the time they usually turn up ... like my hairbrush in the kitchen cabinet, or Jack's USB device in the couch cushions ... but there were two items that we just could not find: one of my hand mixer wisks and the lid to our blender.  Yesterday while Jack was cleaning up a bit, he decided to take out the remaining few garbage bags we had out of their large box and guess what he found?

Yep.

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As the weather is heating up (yesterday was in the mid-80's!), we were trying to find something cool (literally) and fun for Seth to do.  This is what we came up with: plastic melamine bowls filled with water and colored ice cubes.  Seth loved it.  We spend the majority of the day out there, and of course it all ended with a huge water fight between the three of us. :)