The new exhibit at the Zoo!

We went to the Zoo with Annie and Lillian on Friday.  That was so much fun for me!  With the Zoo pass we've really been to the Zoo enough times now :)  The boys like it, but I think we mostly go for me.  I like the exercise and some different scenery and it usually involves someone for me to chat with :)  This time turned out to be especially fun for the boys though, because they had started on the remodel for the bear home.  We stood there for about a half hour watching them tear down some trees, move some broken up cement, the man driving the big scooper even made it wave at us!  How fun is that!  They should really make an amusement park or something for boys with just a bunch of these "working".  You could do all sorts of cool rides and exhibits.  I'm going to call Caterpillar now and tell them my ideas.

As we were leaving I realized I hadn't gotten any pictures of Lillian (nor did I hold her :*(  how sad is that!), so I made Annie walk back and get some real quick.  Gotta have my proof that we were there together :)  Actually I think of pictures as memory jerkers.  If I don't have pictures, it's harder for me to remember it happening.  Look at this cute little girl's lips!!!  She's just a doll!  I can't decide who I think she looks like most.  Annie's the cutest mom ever, but apparently people are actually reading this, so I won't go on about that and embarrass her :)  I love Annie.  I'm so happy to see her being a mom and loving it.  K, that's all I'll say :)  We got to run into my friends Ashleigh and Rachel from HS too, that was a fun little coincidence! 

And this is the ONE picture I got of all of our kids together, pretty pathetic I know, but that's it.

I feel like I should mention how out of it I feel lately without my girls here to keep me in order, this Zoo trip especially.  I'm normally a little scatterbrained, I'll admit it, but for the most part I can keep things under control.  And I do fine most of the time.  With 6 little ones that's saying a lot, so I'll give myself that :)  But Summer comes and I get all relaxed and comfortable with the girls helping and doing things for me, and organizing things, and then all heck breaks loose when they go back to school.  It's a little crazy for me.  It's like I've had a chunk of my brain removed.  Or at least it's just gone dormant or something.  I find myself wondering why nobody's told me that that's happening or that that person's missing.  They really are helpful.  I hope I haven't made them that way against their wills, I hope it's just the way they are, but either way, I do love it and rely on them so much!  I need to get adjusted back to the whole being completely in charge again.  It will happen just in time for the girls to come home for summer break again :) jk.  The boys are great, and helpful, they just don't do things on their own, they have to be told, and they're definitely not as good at keeping tabs on each other :)  But in my defense, I didn't lose anyone (for more than a minute :)), and we all had water, food, and a good time, so I think we'll make it.