A Zoo Day with the Girls

It was such a beautiful day today so I decided to take the girls to the zoo. It was really a nice day. We left the house and picked up lunch on the way. When we got there is was early afternoon and several of the animals were being fed as we walked thru the zoo. It seems like we saw more zookeepers chatting and feeding animals today than any other time that we visited the zoo. We saw the gorillas, the panda, the giraffes, the polar bears and the goats eating. A lot of the animals were out and moving about, but just about all of the cats were napping. The zoo had a "Birds and Bees" exhibit for the summer. Rachel thought that it was really cool because she got to hold a stick that had some birdseed on it and the birds all came to her stick to eat. We stayed until Abigail was ready for a nap. The girls and I had a great day!

Open House at Rachel's School

Tonight, we went to an open house at Rachel's school. She got to meet her teacher and we took in all of her school supplies. She was so excited. Now, she really can't wait for school to start. I am so glad that she is more excited than she is nervous. She will start on the Tuesday after Labor Day. Here are some pictures of her in her class.

My Redbox Addiction

Jeremy says that I have an addiction to Redbox. I started renting $1 movies from Redbox last month. You can reserve their movies online and pick them up later. Then you can return them to any Redbox location when you are done. I was renting one movie each weekend for several weeks. Then, I discovered that there are promotion codes for free rentals that can be found on the internet if you search a bit. For three days straight, I brought home a different movie for us to watch. And, the last five movies that I have rented from Redbox were totally free! How can you beat that?!

Bad doggies!

I had to make a trip to the Southaven Animal Shelter today to "bail out" our two Westies from lockup. Rachel was letting them out and she accidentally left the back door cracked open as she was trying to put Snowy on his cable outside. Ella saw the open door as her opportunity to run so she did and then Snowy took off, too. Abigail was sleeping so I couldn't go chase them at the time it happened. They weren't out for very long at all when someone in our neighborhood had them picked up by animal control.
When we were at the animal shelter (just before they closed), they had just sprayed down the concrete floor where the kennels were. They asked me to help put my dogs on leashes (while holding Abigail). I followed the worker back and then slipped and fell on the wet floor. Luckily, the baby didn't get hurt. I hurt my knee when I fell forward and twisted my back, too. It was not a good afternoon. I'm sure that I will be sore tomorrow.

Water Fun at Home

It was a hot day so Jeremy decided to get the girls' pool out again since we had put it up before our vacation at the end of July. He thought that it would be fun for them to put the sprinkler in the pool and let it fill the pool up. Here is a video clip of the girls dancing to the rhythm of the sprinkler. (Abigail started it and then Rachel joined in.)


Here is a clip of Abigail playing with the water hose.


Here are some pics from the afternoon.

Playing at Snowden Grove Park

We went to a play date this morning that was held by the mom's group that I belong to. This event was held to "honor" all of the big kids that will be starting kindergarten this year. The girls had a good time playing until they both got hungry so we had to leave a bit early to get lunch.