Spring...Finally! And the zoo!

Novak and I made our first trip to the zoo this year...in fact it was the first spring-like day that we've been able to enjoy this year.  Sad that it's the 17th of May...but better late than never!

We started the morning off at 7:45 playing outside (right after we walked home from taking the older two boys to the bus stop.

Peekaboo!

 After playing outside for a while, we met Becky and Baby Brandt at the zoo for our first trip of the year.  I was so excited to share the zoo with this guy!  He didn't remember the trips we made last year, so it was all fresh and new to him.

Being a huge train fan, he loved the zoo train (but he still didn't like the train whistle).

Definitely loved the train best of all.

Goofball.

I have a feeling we'll be going to the zoo a lot this summer.

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere!

Yesterday was the first nice spring-like day that I had been able to enjoy at home. Yes, I still love my Fridays off...

Novak and I went to GUMDROPS, a pre-preschool play group at a local church. He (and I) had a blast. He played nicely with the other kids, loved the stories and songs, and didn't want to leave at the end. Already I'm looking forward to next week.

Later my parents came over and helped me burn our prairie. Only a few times did I think the fire might get ahead of us...Dad lost a few leg hairs and the strings hanging from my ripped jeans have disappeared. But it actually went fairly smoothly.

As we waited for the big boys to get home from school, Novak and I pulled out the bubbles and played in the driveway.

And I'm still waiting most anxiously for the arrival of my new baby nephew. He was due Thursday, and so every day that goes by is more torture for my sister. Very soon she will have a bundle of love to snuggle. I'm so excited for this baby, he is going to be so loved!