First Outing

Some call it being brave, but I know that I'm crazy. The week my mom was here to help out also happened to be spring break for the girls. I felt bad that we had stayed home and done virtually nothing all week due to me still recovering from having Kailey. On thursday we decided to go to the zoo in Tucson. It is a small zoo, so I thought we'd be okay. Plus, I thought it would be easy to keep Kailey away from other people since I could just have her in the stroller or a baby carrier the whole time. It took us awhile to get going because we hadn't put the baby seat together after washing it. And since we had her at home we hadn't ever put her in the car yet, so this is her first car ride:


Before going into the zoo we went to eat our picnic lunch out by the duck pond in the park since it was after 11:00 when we got there. We ate under a bunch of orange trees that smelled awesome, and then some stranger came up with a bag of bread that they were done with offering it to us to feed the ducks. We went to feed the ducks and they are obviously fed well, because they weren't really flocking to the side to us to feed. Anyways, Mckayla was trying a bit too hard to throw food to the ducks and fell in the nasty, stinky water!
She was soaked head to toe, and she stank because the water was pretty gross. So we decided to go grab her an outfit from a nearby store before going into the zoo. By the time we got into the zoo it was after 1:00. Here is a picture of the soaking wet Mckayla, notice the wet footprints walking towards me:

My mom had been following Jaxon, holding onto the back of his clothes to keep him from diving in. We thought the girls would be okay, but you know what they say about assuming.....

After finally making it into the zoo we had a great time. We just took our time and let the kids linger looking at the animals for as long as they wanted. We didn't see the whole zoo, but that was okay. Here's my mom with the kids:

This is a giraffe that kept trying to eat off the peacock's feathers.

They had a thing where we could pay to get some food to feed the giraffes. Look at that tongue! Yuck! Luckily they had a handwashing thing where they could clean off.

Jaxon is in the turtle shell too, but I couldn't get him to stick his head out.

There were a lot of birds that had free roam of the place, and that was the kids' favorite part. They loved just following the peacocks around.

At the end we let the kids play on a water playground they had on the zoo grounds, again getting them soaking wet. So, we had to strip them down in the car for the ride home, and we figured they could just cover up with a blanket or something for the ride home. We also decided to stop by a fabric store since they don't have any in Sierra Vista, and my mom had a heck of a time while I was in the store. We had gotten some drive-thru food and they completely screwed up our order, then their thing shut down and after 20 minutes in the drive-thru they gave us a bunch of food for free. Then Jaxon had a giant poop and we realized we were out of diapers so we had to go to the store again to get him a new diaper. What was supposed to be a short day trip ended up taking some interesting turns and we didn't get home until late into the evening. But it was a lot of fun, though I was completely worn out by the whole thing.