Park fun

We had a fun morning at the park. We walked from our house (I realized how out of shape I am!) and enjoyed a picnic lunch :)

Impromptu trip to the zoo

Today, while playing outside with the kids I suddenly remembered that we had purchased zoo passes. I asked Ella if she wanted to go sometime this week and she replied "today!" I thought about it and thought, "why not." So after the kids took their naps we headed out for the zoo. I knew we wouldn't have a lot of time to spend there before it closed but that's one of the great things about having zoo passes and a zoo that's close by :) I picked a few things to see that we missed last time which were, the petting zoo, the lion, and the orangoutangs.

The kids had fun petting the goats. Ella went up to it, bent down and looked it in it's little goat face and announced, "Hello little goat, I'm here to help you!" It was pretty funny! Micah was super excited when he saw all the goats. He was squealing and moving right towards them.

Brushing the goat's hair

sleeping lioness

The last stop on our trip was to see the Orangoutangs. I knew my little monkey would enjoy seeing them but I don't think I knew how much! He was SO excited! He started shouting and bouncing which I think was his attempt at communicating with them? Just further proof that my son is in fact a little monkey :) I wish I would have taken a video of it because it was so funny!

Isn't he the cutest little monkey you have ever seen?

Cousins, Best Friends, and..........

Swimming Lesson Classmates :)

Favorite Kids Photos

This weeks blog hop is favorite kids photos. If I put all of my favorite photos of the kids it would be way too long so I was able to select just a few :)

Favorite photos of Ella

Favorite Photos of Micah

Swim Lessons

I took Ella to her first swim lesson today! It was just her and her cousin today so she got a little more one on one time. She still has a ways to go before she is swimming but at least she's learning the basics. Today she learned how to blow bubbles in the water and how to kick her legs and move her arms.

Little Cutie

I had Gymbucks to spend at Gymboree and went in with the full intention of getting Micah some summer clothes for next year. I instead ended up getting dresses for my little Ella Bella who has an overabundance of clothes already and doesn't need anymore. I couldn't resist the adorable sundresses! I have a weakness for buying girl clothes, a bigger weakness for buying summer clothes, and an even bigger weakness for sundresses!!!!! So I walked out of Gymboree with a bag of adorable girl clothes and one little 4th of July t-shirt for Micah to wear next year :( I did get some really cute pictures of Ella in one of her new outfits so that makes it worth it, right?

Zoo!

We finally made it to the beautiful Columbus Zoo this year! I don't think we have been since Ella's birthday last September. I bought our zoo passes so hopefully we can get some good use out of them this year! The weather was HOT and the zoo was packed but we still had a great time!

Ready to go! Where is Micah's shoe?

I was meeting a group of friends from church and as I was walking through I glanced over and saw Jack Hanna! He was taking pictures with people and signing autographs. It's a bad picture but oh well!

We waited in a line to see the new baby elephant Beco. He was super cute but unfortunately none of my pictures of him turned out :(

Some of Ella's friends

We had fun on the carousel. I had to take these pictures while standing between the kids and holding on to Micah, pretty tricky!

Passed out after a long hot day of zoo fun.