Boo at the Zoo

  We had a good time at the zoo yesterday! Every year the zoo has vendors come and set up a small station to advertise their business and then give out candy to the little kiddos. I felt bad for Kate because she missed trunk or treat at church last Tuesday due to her throwing up the whole day, so we thought it'd be good to go to this Halloween activity at the zoo.
  Right when we arrived the fun started. The girls loved looking at everyone's fun costumes. However, I totally forgot to prep the girls beforehand about saying "trick or treat" and "thank you" so Kate was a mute almost the entire time. She even shook her head no to candy multiple times. Oh, this girl.
  When we were about ready to go home we saw a tent that was doing face painting. I thought the girls would love to do that so we got in line and waited. And waited. And waited. Only one lady was there doing the painting and was super friendly so, it took forever. We decided we didn't want to wait another 30 minutes at the bare minimum, so we convinced the girls to let me do their faces when we got home. It worked and we went home.
  Abby decided she didn't really want anything but Kate did and loved how her butterfly turned out.

Field trip day

  Please don't let these adorable faces fool you. These little cuties have been a major pain in my rear all morning. Well, the two older ones. Ellie can do no wrong, for now.
  I was invited to go on this homeschooling field trip day with some friends from church. It was an hour drive one way but I thought the girls would totally enjoy it so we made the trip. I even got up at 0640 to get everything ready so we could be out the door by 0810. We were 15 minutes late getting out the door, per usual, but we arrived right on time.
  There were so many fun activities to do. Cow train, horse carousel, rubber duck racing, big tunnel slides, bowling, massive bubble like trampoline. ...sounds like fun, right? Well the only things Kate and Abby participated in was bowling and the hay ride. Oh, and they let me push them on the swings. But that was it. I put them on the horse carousel, they cried to get off immediately. I begged them to get onto the cow train, they refused. Abby ventured up the stairs to go down the slide, more than Kate would do, but she'd just walk right back down the stairs. I tried convincing them to jump on the trampoline! No go. Oh. My. Gosh. Uuuuhhhh!
  So after walking around and sweating a fair amount, I gave up. We sat down and had lunch at 1045. The hay ride began at 11 and they went on it but only because I was able to as well.
  Definitely a fail for our outing this week. :(  Maybe next year my deathly shy child will venture out of her Kevlar shell a bit so she can have fun with other kids, like a normal kid, and my middle child will be happy to play with others. I can dream, right?
  I think I'm going to go eat a bag of chocolate chips now and look at pictures of my girls, who I totally adore, but drive me temporarily crazy more than I should allow.