Zoo, glue, and you!!!

Well, this week has been somewhat back to "normal", if one could ever say anything was normal around here! LOL! Yesterday we made wooden picture frame mosaics. I bought the frames at Dollar Tree and then we went on a scavenger hunt through the house, for odds and ends of small items to hot glue on the frames like a mosaic. Caleb chose some colored paper clips, a heart shaped and a star shaped foam bead, a CAR eraser, 2 game pieces from a no-longer-of-interest game, and plastic beads that spelled out his name. He proceded to paint the frame yellow and red, which appear to be his favorite colors. Then I helped hot glue the items on his frame while he "directed" the design (with a little direction from gramdma). Tyler chose a simpler plan. He left his frame the natural wood color and chose eight AA and one AAA batteries to glue on the frame. He also chose some colored paper clips, and two pennies. If you knew him, you would know that each of those fits him to a T. Unfortunately, I found out later, that the batteries were NOT dead, as Ty had claimed! Oh well.

Anyway, Mom & Dad were very surprised and happy to find the frames, complete with a picture of each boy (Caleb wearing a king's crown we had made and Ty with a paint brush when we made his reading car)just before they left to go on a "date night". Grandpa Steve joined us for the evening. He fixed the free computer we got so Ty can do his Hooked on Phonics program on it. Yeah!

By late morning, we decided to go to the zoo. It is less than 10 miles from here and we have annual passes, so we can go just about any time. The petting zoo part has a sweet baby llama who followed us around along with many baby goats and their mommies. The giraffe was very cooperative about eating out of our hands this time and I got some great pictures. The tortoise had his lunch all over his face. The meerkat smirked us when I pulled out my camera. He literally turned the other direction three times! Little twerp!

Baby Girl rode on the merry-go-round, as did the boys, but she really got tickled at it. We went on the boat too, but even with an overcast day, the seats were too hot for comfort! Ouch!

Well, the kids are going to be spending the weekend with us while Mom & Dad get to go on a trip to Mexico! We are going to the movies and swimming, etc. I shall be thoroughly tired by Monday! Yikes!