Fun Outside & The Zoo

We are just soaking up every moment of outside time we can. It is so nice outside. Owen is definitely suffering from some allergies, but we're trying to monitor it and give him the prescribed allergy medicine and see what's going on. But Owen loves the outdoors.

Friday night, we had a showing at the house, so we had to get out for a while. Owen had a good day at school, but not a very good nap, so we had to cancel our play date with the Alvarez family, and we just went out for pizza... Well that sounds like an easy plan, but Owen wasn't in the mood for Pizza John's. It was about a 30 minute dinner total, so not our best performance, but fortunately we were out of the house long enough for the agent to come and show the property.

Then we got home and it was still so nice out we decided to take a wagon ride around the block. Daddy took Sam Dog inside, and then accidentally closed the door locking us out. OOPS! We called Granny & Pop but they were at dinner, we couldn't figure out how to get in the house (despite the fact that our spare key was hanging on a key box pad on our front door)... Mommy did some thinking and finally figured out that I could call customer service for the lock box and get my pin to get the key). It was a relief to get back inside quickly and uneventfully (meaning we didn't have to break a window or anything crazy like that...)

Today we couldn't help but enjoy the fantastic weather, so we headed off to the zoo. Owen lasted about 2 hours, which was pretty good. We started off with him in the stroller and explored the wilderness. Owen enjoyed the ducks and seeing the animals.

He loved helping Daddy push the stroller around too. In fact when he was pushing, he barely cared about any animal... just wanted to walk and push the stroller.... hmm, we could have done this for free!

We got to see just about everything, we even got a glimpse of the baby elephant! Owen liked the zebras and the giraffes too... but towards the end of our zoo visit, despite the fact that we were the farthest away from the car that we could possibly be, Owen began to rub his eyes and get tired.

Rubbing his eyes, caused him to rub sunscreen into them, and combined with being tired caused an inconsolable melt down. He cried almost the entire way to the car and the ride home. He was so tired, but couldn't shut down and fall asleep in the car seat. When we did finally make it home, Owen zonked out for a 4 hour nap. WOW!!! He was tired.

When he got up, we decided to stay in for the evening and just have fun in the back yard. We brought out the ball pit, which has been in hiding ever since our house went on the market.

Owen was delighted and just so happy playing in it. It was really cute! He loves to walk around, grab a rock, take it around the back yard, and then throw it back and get another one. He also loves to climb the hill and come running back down... Sometime he goes face first, other times he makes it. Either way he just bounces up and starts over again.

Overall, it's been a fun weekend so far, despite the meltdown today. Hopefully, tomorrow will be just relaxing and uneventful - but every day is different, so who knows!