Midwest 2011 Day 4

Today was a little calmer than the previous few, but we were still on the go most of the day and tired Nicholas was sound asleep by 7:30. But he did nap in a crib today for the firs time in a week and a half. And would have probably napped for hours if I hadn't had to wake him to get to the zoo.

We spent the morning with my dad's parents and Nicholas apparently had fun since he kept asking to go back. He was not on great behavior, I think mostly because he is just plumb worn out, and it took him awhile to warm up, but he his moments of being delightful. He also had his moments of shrieking at the top of his lungs in the grocery store. Yeah, totally out of character and not okay.

We spent the late afternoon at the zoo with family, which was a lot of fun, although hot and tiring. The grizzly bears were in fine form and Nicholas was enjoying watching them so much that when I finally asked him if we could be all done he said, "no, keep watching brown bear." Well, okay then.

We were all so hot and tired that I made no effort to get pictures with any of the cool statues they have throughout the zoo for photo ops. We did try to get one picture outside the zoo as we left, with no success as we stared directly into bright sunlight.

From 2011 June

I had only slightly more luck getting one of Nicholas, Amy, and Rachel. No sun, but a little boy who was hard to keep still.

From 2011 June

The only other interesting things from today are that Nicholas' pronounciation of names is getting astoundingly good, even after only a couple tries, and that his description of feeding the horse yesterday stunned me with the level of detail in his description. Last night I thought the pool was the hit of the day, but the horse stuck.