Let Summer Never End! Zoo and Swim, swim, swim!

Poor Taylor has been working some pretty long hours trying to catch up on all his work he missed while we were on vacation. So what to do with these little boys all by myself in the evenings? Throw them in the little pool! Then they're tired, clean, happy, and ready for bed! (and I don't even have to get in :)


Since this is Ethan's last week of summer I decided we needed to cram as many fun things into the week as we could. So first we headed off to the zoo with our favorite boy cousins. It's perfect! Ethan gets to have 2 kind and sweet big brothers for a day and Isaac and Miles get friends their own age. We love them!

Normally a zoo trip last less than 2 hours for us since it's mostly a run from animal to animal, but with these guys, we spent almost 4 just because they played so well. Okay and it was nice that the weather was only in the 70's.

Miles is still a little freaked out by the animatronic dinosaurs and I love that now the vegetation has grown around them enough that they're kind of hidden- until they roar or move!

Had to drag these fossil diggers away.

They all sat down together (seriously- 4 boys sharing that little statue)...

...to watch this tiger pace back and forth across the bridge.

It was cute to see all 7 of them converge on exhibits. If one went somewhere, they ALL followed.

Sadly, our last trip with these guys for a little while since the older 5 will all be in school, but Miles and Owen still get to hang out. Yeah!