Santa Ana Zoo
We played at home for a while this morning. The kiddos rode their bikes and played with the water table. They took their toy pots and pans outside and used them in the water table. We got packed up and headed to the Santa Ana Zoo for play group. We had a lot of fun. The kids of course wanted to go in the jeep and then we went to the sand/rock play area. I have the dirtiest kids ever. They played there for so long. Then we went to see the monkeys-the kids liked watching the animals eat. Then we rode on the train and went to see the farm part of the zoo. We went to eat lunch and the kids played at the play area for a while. This is the first time I just sat and watched them rather than standing right over them. I went to check on them and they just waved and said I am having fun mommy. We came home and I tried so hard to get the kiddos to nap. No nap but they played for a while upstairs. The kiddos have been fighting a bit so I just decided to give them a bath, hoping then they wouldn’t fight. They found ways to fight in the tub. They tried to draw on one another with bath crayons, splash, steal each other toys…the usual. But they were also able to take a long bath which was fun for them. Usually we are rushing bath. After bath we came downstairs and played. We played outside and in the futon room. We had fun. Bret came home a bit early so I could run to the doctor. The kids had fun with daddy and they got to watch Barney an Elmo’s World. After dinner, I was kinda bored after being home all afternoon, so we decided to do a trike wash. We gave the kiddos a hose, sponges, bucket of soap and they had a great time washing their trikes. Of course we had to watch who had the hose, Jose (Justin’s nickname cause he loves the hose) was hogging it a bit. They now have shiny clean bikes. We went upstairs a bit earlier tonight. It actually made our bed time routine less stressful and more relaxing. We read a ton of books. Justin sat with daddy to read books and Nicole with me. It is 8:25 and everything is quiet upstairs, so nice when they go right to bed. We are pretty tired too.