Today, Tuesday, March 26th, was our free day. No school, no OT, no gymnastics and seeing that the weather was fairly nice, we headed to the zoo. Nicky has just not been our Nicky for a while. We are not sure if it is a lingering cold, or growing pains but he was a bit on the lethargic side this morning. And because of it, it was a struggle to get him to see any animals, let alone the new lion cubs. After lunch, we headed over to Zoomazium, an indoor playground inside the zoo. Joel and the boys had a great time stacking blocks and playing with felt cutouts of animals. Then, we talked them into going to the outdoor play area. A burst of energy was had by all. Before I knew it, Joel had two sets of twin boys chasing him around the enclosure. Yep, Joel had picked up identical twin boys, a month younger than our boys. Their mom didn’t seem to mind and two sets of twins really wore Joel out. I thought I would have to carry three boys back to our van after that 45 minute session of running about.

What was totally cool about today was the fact that because the weather was nice, we were able to not go straight home but instead, treat us all to ice cream cones at Mukilteo beach after the zoo. We found some nice shells and rocks too for Nicky’s collection when about 5 minutes into our throwing rocks into Puget Sound, Dexter stuck his shoe into the water enough to get his sock wet. For those of you who know Dexter, that was the end to our beach trip.

It is now 8:30pm, the boys are asleep and Joel and I want to be too. I love it when we can get outside and get into nature.

Oh, and one last comment about the day. It started with me having Dexter clean the boogers off the wall next to his bed. I figured if he had to scrub the 10 or so boogers stuck solid to the wall, maybe he wouldn’t put anymore there. I’ll let you know how that turns out.

Here are some pictures from today:

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