WAP

The week before I had to return to work we tried to utilize our time to do some fun family things. One of them was to go to the Wild Animal Park to treat Abby. She loves, loves, loves to go there and to point out all the animals. This time was particularly funny - last time we came they had the butterfly exhibit. She asked to see them again, but I had to explain that they were gone and there weren't anymore. So she then kept asking to see "butterflies all gone."

Over the summer they do this really neat thing called Elephant Run where they keep the elephants up out of the main exhibit and the trainers hide their treats. Then they open the doors and since the elephants know what to expect, they all come running out to find their treats. You can imagine that elephants don't really run, they more or less shuffle/trot out, but it was still neat to see how excited they got about these treats.

This was the first time that Abby rode on a carousel. She loved it!

And some of the animals that we got to see up close and personal...

This is how I feel at the end of the day ;)

Daniel is cute! Abby is too!

Lately, the evenings consist of me getting home from an 8 hour day at work, Robbie getting some relief from an 8 hour day with the kids, getting dinner fed to both kids, bath time, books read and getting the kids into bed for the night. This week, Daniel has decided that he just is having too much fun while he's up to have to take afternoon and early evening naps, so the evening consists of a lot of crying since he becomes extremely over-stimulated. Needless to say, when I get to this time in the evening, I'm exhausted and I just want to catch some shut eye before the next day begins all over again. But the kiddos have just been too cute, so I'm groggily getting this post up for you to enjoy ;)







We have been enjoying bath times!! Abby usually is getting a bath while Daniel is going down, so we've moved her baths to our bathtub and she thinks this is quite the treat! She loves the silver disk on the tub wall and you'll often catch her staring at herself, singing some tune. We also have gotten to rewarding her with bubbles if she's caught doing something good.

Sometimes it just hits me like a load of bricks - Abigail is such a big girl now. My boss is sending his daughter off to college this year and he often reminds me that the years go by so quickly and before you know it, the day they leave for college gets here in just a blink. I get moments where my breath is taken away thinking of how quickly the past two years have gone by with Abby and now, looking at these pictures below, Daniel is already 10 weeks old and those weeks have gone by too quickly as well.