A Zoo-y Day

We met Ms. Suzy and Colin for a final hoorah before they head back to Switzerland. Andrew and Stephen posed with Hank, the zoo's main attraction. The kids all jumped in the canoe to explore the depths of the African jungle.

While everyone else went into the barnyard to feed the goats and pot bellied pigs, my kids preferred to dig in the gravel and watch the trains. Andrew and I counted 2 engines pulling and 1 engine pushing a load of 123 coal cars (there's our math for the day!) Here is my wild bunch of chimps.

The newest attraction at the zoo is a carousel featuring endangered animals that were carved by a local group called "Horsin' Around." The boys had a lot of trouble choosing their animals.

As soon as the music started, Stephen started crying to get off. After three passes and lots of tears, I requested the operator to stop the ride. She happily let him get down.

Andrew stayed on though I don't know that he really enjoyed the ride.

It's been interesting having a crawler in the house. You would think that after having done this twice before I'd be prepared. That is not the case. The other morning I found Matthew merrily playing with the door stop, hitting it, listening to the noise. I grab the camera and while taking pictures, I notice he got the cap of the end of the door stop and was eating it. A little while later I heard the big boys say, "Matthew is standing." I run into the living room to find him standing in front of the book shelf, holding onto a lamp cord. This morning I missed him while I was drying my hair and found him underneath the boys' bunkbed. And to top it off, he pulled off another lamp this afternoon and the lightbulb shattered all over the floor. "There's no rest for the wicked...."
Two steps forward, one step back. No, unfortunately this has nothing to do with Matthew's mobility. Tonight I discovered another offending food: soy.


That is to say, I'm pretty sure that it is soy. I put some of Stephen's Whole Soy vanilla yogurt on his back (a quarter size spot) and you can see the result: redness and lots and lots of hives. The other possibilities are rice and corn.
What'll it be next?