more zoo, more cousins!

well, I suppose not more cousins than the 50+ that were in our last photo, but more cousin time! we had a blast with shebly, leah and michelle a couple weeks ago when the weather was hovering beautifully around 70 degrees...much better than the week before when we went for Finn's birthday.

this time I also printed out a couple zoo worksheets found online so the kids could do a zoo animal scavenger hunt. They were checking off animals when we saw them...this totally kept eddie into the animals and away from the playgrounds! Finn even got to explore a little bit this time, which he loved of course!

{the girls on the merry go round!}

{shelby and michelle}

{leah!}

{and, oh. look who didn't get to go because he got himself into such a butt load of trouble he's still apologizing. seriously. he is testing his limits and has me, well, at mine. stinker!}

{he's lucky he's cute, and so into lists and tasks and loved every minute of his clipboard}

{hi littlest stinker!}

{one of a million pictures of them looking at something...the bison, of course}

{finn loved the aquariums, it really made me want to take him to the shedd!}

{fascinated by the little fish}

{and the shark, of course!}

{penguin spotting}

{michelle and i hustled through this as fast as possible...it was a bird free flight area which scares the hell out of me. and also? free flight = free poop}

{my boys got the biggest kick out of the lemur play area, where Finney was deemed "baby lemur" and eddie was the zookeeper}

{finn loooooved his lemur title. it meant he got to climb where ever he wanted!}

{eddie helping baby lemur down}

{and eventually, they both became lemurs. I think Eddie realized that he got to be a little sillier as a lemur, and that boy is always ready to be silly}

{how fake of a smile is this?}

I love the zoo, can you tell? We had so much fun running around with the girls....and all the kids were such troopers that day! I couldn't believe it. There were the inevitable meltdowns at the end, but we took them in stride. I love cousin time :)