It's a zoo around here.

We went to the zoo this morning. Here's why...last night, upon arriving home from the senior roast, I found a swollen lipped son with a permanent tooth that was wiggly. He went skateboarding with a friend and collided with another skater, a big kid skater. It knocked him loopy and shook him up a bit. He slept in a chair in our room and I kept him home today to monitor his head injury. So, finding myself at home with the only three kids that might want to go to the zoo this morning, we looked up the info and loaded up. It was too hot, I forgot my "real" camera , just had the iPhone cam, and there are too many darn hills to push a double stroller up, but they had a good time. Their favorite animals were the monkeys, mountain lion, orangutans, elephants, zebras and giraffes. And the turtles, the girls kept calling "tortuga". At the flamingos, we were all saying, "flamingo, flamingo, flamingo" for Sophie to repeat. She tried a few times and then just yelled, "CHICKEN".

We saw what we wanted to see and left, lunched at Pete's Fish 'n' Chips, picked up my Bernina from the shop and headed home. CHECK.

When I was dressing Sophie, she said "leg hurts". I was putting on her shoes then I placed her down on her feet and she says, "that really hurts, Charlie, " with an English accent. Brig and Brynn and I busted up laughing. Sophie just stood there and grinned.