San Diego Wild Animal Park

We went to the Wild Animal Park on October 24th. We spent 4 hours there, and 2 hours travel each way. Andrew, amazingly, was the only one of the kids who walked the whole time there. We walked about half the park. We saw a lot of birds, elephants, they moved the tigers or we would've seen them :( , the California condors, gorillas and some flamingos. We were excited this time we were able to get the kids to a little petting area, and found out they have a kids' play area! That was perfect for the end of our trip. There were over 200 pictures we took(a lot of duplicates) and I narrowed it down to 48. I was really pleased the Nikon camera did so well with the zoom.

We had a little adventure coming home. We stopped at a Fresh n' Easy a few miles from the park to pick up more drinks for the car ride home, and the battery died in the parking lot. Luckily, after a couple people, Tom was able to find someone willing to pull their car over by ours for the 30 second jumpstart.

just started up(a few weeks ago) volunteering in collin's class. just half an hour, once a week. it's been pretty cool so far, mostly just cutting out & laminating things. the cool part is there's only 8-9 kids total in collin's special ed class, so i get to see how collin is in the class with interacting & when they do their little group work. best of all, it's helping collin's mommy separation issues!

his teachers made him a little book before i started coming, all with some pictures they took. 1st page says something like "sometimes mommy comes to my class, and i can say hi mom". the 2nd page says "she sits at a table & works." the 3rd page says "i keep working." the 4th page says "then mom leaves & i say bye mommy." the last page is "i stay at school. i will see mommy at home."

anyway, it's a pretty cute book. they sent an extra copy home just for us. he almost has the whole thing memorized and has no problem saying bye to me, though the last couple times he left to lunch before i left the class.

andrew comes too. he seems to enjoy himself there. last week, i told him early that we were going to collin's class & he cried the whole way home after dropping off ivy to school(collin's bus comes first before i take ivy to school) because we had 2 more hours before it was time to help at collin's class. i think it has to do with they have some thomas train stuff in the class that we don't have at home.

Coming June 2010

Wow. Been almost a month since I last blogged. For those of you not on facebook, we are expecting #4 next year. Only Andrew got to come along with me to the doctor's today. He thinks the screen on the ultrasound machine is a tv where he gets to see the baby. We got to see the heartbeat on the ultrasound. That was pretty cool. Really hoping for Ivy's sake it's a girl.

I'm okay, a little nauseous and super tired! Also trying to slow down "muscle memory"--after each kid, the next pregnancy my body looks like I'm further along than I really am.