Big Kid Beds and the Zoo

Saturday night Brooke and Nathan slept in their big kid beds. We are doing the same with them as we did with Lenny. We are skipping the toddler beds and going straight to the twin size bed. Nunny and Uncle Chip came down on Saturday and Nunny bought Nathan’s bed, quilt and sheets. That’s the kind of shopping I love. I pick it out and someone else buys it especially a big purchase like that. Thank you Nunny and Papoo! They bought one for Brooke last year and we’ve been using it as a guest bed in Brooke’s room.

I am so proud of Brooke and Nate, they did great sleeping in their big kid beds. We talked it up all day and the kids even helped get Nate’s bed all ready. Then it was time to go to bed and we realized that we forgot to put the bedrails on so that they wouldn’t fall out. So we decided that we would just start it the next day. Brooke and Nate weren’t having that. They both pointed to their beds and wanted to sleep there that night. So we got the bedrails, put them on, and put the kids to bed. Nate woke up at about 9:30 briefly and then went right back to sleep. After that we didn’t hear a word out of them until morning.

At about 6:30 the next morning Dominic said that he thought he heard Nathan trying to open the door. I went to his room and when I opened the door, he was standing there with his brown boots on. It was hilarious! The boots are still too big and the laces are all open wide. He loves to wear them and must have pulled them out of his shoe rack behind his door. He looked so cute standing there in his pajamas with his boots. Of course after that he went to Brooke’s room and wanted to make sure she was awake. She was just sitting up in her bed with her cow ear up to her nose.

We kept the cribs in their rooms for a little while just to see how they do. So far tonight, they haven’t said a word and this is the third night. Yeah! They are so VERY good about bed time and naps that I wasn’t really too worried about the transition for them.

Zoo

Sunday we packed the kids up and headed to the National Zoo. We had a lot of fun but forgot about how much walking is involved in going to the zoo. We didn’t even get to see everything. The kids really loved it and we all had a great time. We brought our own lunch from home which was fun too.

Dominic and Lenny were looking for the Pandas.


I loved how these gorillas were sitting. The lady from the zoo said that they are brothers and they usually don't sit with each other.

I didn't get any good pictures of the kids looking at me. Luckily Dominic took his video camera and got some great videos and pictures on that.

The small mammal house seemed to be the favorite. They all really loved the Meerkats. Nathan really got excited over them. Here they all are looking at the Meerkats.

When we saw the elephant nosed shrew, Dominic said, “Ewww”. Lenny quickly said, “Daddy, don’t say ‘ewww’. He’s cute!” I think that I agreed with Dominic’s opinion on that one.

Lenny also loved the armadillo. He said that he could watch him for a long time. Again, another one that I wasn’t too fond of.

Brooke and Nate really liked the kids farm. Nathan always had to stand up to get a better view. We didn’t let them out of the stroller because we knew that we would never get them back in but luckily they could stand up if they wanted to and see better.

Brooke kept holding her pretzels out to hand to the animals. We had to keep telling her that they couldn't have them. She just wanted to share. In this picture while Nathan is being so cute, Brooke is probably trying to take his pretzels to give them to the animals.

All in all it was a great day. We got out of there in time to listen to the Redskins game on the way home and see the entire second half from home. Dominic was happy about that.