We've had a lot going on with animals around our house lately. The first animal adventure came almost 2 weeks ago when our 3 month old baby Rockie ran off the deck and went venturing in the bushes and came back with a bleeding eye. I took her to the emergency vet and turns out she is a HE (whoops) and they determined the cause of bleeding to be a copperhead snake bite. Copperheads are pretty regular in this area. They are not aggressive unless provoked but you can imagine a curious little kitten would definitely provoke a snake. A lot of vet bills later Rockie is making a great recovery. Its likely her vision will be partially if not fully lost in that eye but we have to give it time to heal to know for sure. He's a trooper, you would never know anything was wrong with him (as he is on the computer desk now attacking everything he can find to play with).
Every year we ALWAYS get birds building a nest in the corner of the front porch covering. We try hard to prevent it (because you can see the mess behind the birds that it makes) but its inevitable, the birds LOVE this spot. Yesterday I happened to notice 3 baby birds staring me down and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to photo shoot a few baby birds at close range. Its hard to tell here but there is a 3rd bird behind the two in front. I'm glad I took the photo yesterday as today they are gone.
Then we ventured out to the Asheboro Zoo. I love this place. Its so cheap considering how large of a zoo it is. You can pack your own lunch and make a day of it. This year Brenden was REALLY into all of the animals. Logan was definitely engaged too but Brenden had a BLAST.
Here they are posing on an armadillo statue. We asked Brenden if he could hold onto Logan, so he grabbed him by his head... and Logan still attempts to smile for the camera. Love those silly boys!
Here they are posing on an armadillo statue. We asked Brenden if he could hold onto Logan, so he grabbed him by his head... and Logan still attempts to smile for the camera. Love those silly boys!
Here is Brenden posing on the elephant statue. He was more interested in this than the real live elephants :)
They had a few of these little mist blowers throughout the zoo. I love how Brenden is so interested in the big kids and being like them.
Logan passed out right around his usual nap time and got a good long nap in the stroller. He was in love with that juice bottle and wouldn't let us take it away from him. He wasn't drinking it, he just had to hold it.
This polar bear was the life of the party! This adorable creature would jump up and splash in his pool.. swim front and backwards, would toss his ball in the air and catch it. Brenden would just ooooh and aaaaah and clap his hands and say that polar bear is 'weally coowl!'
It was a fun zoo day but it was HOT. We came home and it was actually cooler at our house (the zoo is usually cooler because its further away from the city). The kids enjoyed getting some play time outside.
And of course to all of the dad's out there Happy Father's Day!!!
Not a whole lot to update on the boys since last time. Brenden is learning so many things. He likes to say words and figure out what letters they start with. I like how he initiates these things all on his own. He'll say mmmmmm-milk... milk starts with m? and I tell him yes and he gets so excited. He continues to make us laugh with his silly 3 yr old thinking. Yesterday he heard a song on his dvd about counting from 1 to 10 and he said "1 to 10... that's silly, its 1 2 3 not 1 2 10!" Lol.
I had a parent/ teacher meeting with Logan's teacher and she was bragging on how smart he was and how he was picking up language way above his age level. She said he was drawing on a magnedoodle and the shape looked like a crescent and he took it to the teacher and said "nana" (banana) she said that was really higher thinking than most 1 yr olds can comprehend.. drawing abstract objects and associating them with 3-D objects. He still loves to eat. I was told today during lunch he ate all of his pizza and then started scavenging off of his classmates plates.
I had a parent/ teacher meeting with Logan's teacher and she was bragging on how smart he was and how he was picking up language way above his age level. She said he was drawing on a magnedoodle and the shape looked like a crescent and he took it to the teacher and said "nana" (banana) she said that was really higher thinking than most 1 yr olds can comprehend.. drawing abstract objects and associating them with 3-D objects. He still loves to eat. I was told today during lunch he ate all of his pizza and then started scavenging off of his classmates plates.
They are getting so big, so fast. Its impossible to believe that Logan will be 2 soon. Didn't he just turn 1? Gosh I wish I could slow this whole childhood thing down!
