Fun weekend and a trip to the zoo!

Eye to eye with a penguin...BC said, "Dat penguin like me!"

Ok...he's officially a goat lover now!

The main attraction at the zoo is a boat ride that BC is happy to just WATCH.  He talks about this boat ride all the time at home!  He loves to watch the logs go up the hill and then come down for the big "Zzash!" as he calls the splash.  Seriously...we could have stood here all day and he would have been perfectly content!  :)

He liked looking at the birds, but stayed really close to Mimi!  The birds were really active yesterday and buzzing around.  He'd immediately back up, and put his shoulders up, trying to hunker down, I guess!  

Future bird whisperer??

Hello everyone!!  Well, as you can see from the photos, we made another trip to the zoo!  Thanks to Aunt J, for the gift that kept on givin' this past year!  We really enjoyed our zoo passes!  Yesterday we met up with Mimi for the day and really had a great time.  Bear Cub was really into the meerkats during this trip.  So much so, he is now calling himself a meerkat and I am the mommy meerkat!   Now to get his attention to come with me, I have to say something like, "Come on, meerkat!  Time to go in!"  Then, and only then, will he come a-runnin!  He has a wild imagination, I'm telling you!  

We also had a terrific weekend -- really busy, but fun.  On Saturday, we ran all kinds of errands and made it to Stride Rite to get this young man some new sneakers!  You know how I seem to do it...waiting until he's clomping around, toes all curled up in the toe box, before we finally get to the shoe store!  Poor guy!  It's like his feet grow all of a sudden and just one day I'll notice it and decide, "Hey, he needs new shoes!!"  So we did that, washed our cars, and even made it up to our neighborhood tennis courts to hit some balls!  It was great!  This is something that we really used to enjoy before BC came into our lives, and for some reason, we hadn't thought about it in a long time.  But BC did great up there!  There are only 2 courts, and I think we're the only people that EVER play, so BC ran and played on the one court while we played a little tennis.  Even today, Bear Cub said he wanted to go back to the tennis courts.   We definitely will.  It felt great to get back to something that we really do enjoy!

On Sunday, we had a nice visit from Grandma and Grandpa!  They came over once we were home from church (yes, the resolution continues....)  and stayed all afternoon.  BC was on his very best behavior and did so well when we went out to eat and had lots of fun playing with his Grandpa & Grandma.  He also had a chance to show off his ABC skills...to his teacher Grandma!  Yes, BC is seriously surrounded by teachers in this family.  :)  It was a great afternoon!

Here we are and it's Tuesday already!  We have our usual weekly activities that we attend and then the big event on Saturday afternoon is the CIRCUS!!!   Good 'ol Aunt J....she gave us circus tickets for Christmas this year!  Bear Cub and I have been talking about the circus some and we even checked out some library books to get him ready for the fun.   I'll be sure to take lots of pictures that day, too!  Have a great rest of the week!  :)