More May fun!

   It's the last day of May so I should probably try to squeeze another May post in. Our May has been gorgeous. Hot sometimes yes. But gorgeous nonetheless. We've been able to play outside, go to the zoo, go to the farmstead, plant in our garden, do things we shouldn't be doing until June. But we've been having a blast!

Sigh. These flowers are just stubs thanks to the family of rabbits in our backyard. 

   I should have known May was going to be fun just based off of May Day. For May Day we participated in a May Day basket exchange. My mom's group at church organized this. We all signed our kiddos up and then we were assigned a May Day friend - someone we made a basket for. I had a ton of fun packing our basket full of surprises for our friends Brady and Tyler. Harrison wasn't really apart of the shopping/packing because I'm pretty sure he'd just want to open everything for himself. We dropped off our basket after school and came home to a wonderful surprise on our own front steps!

So many things to check out!

   We took our bucket to the backyard to see what treasures were inside!

What is in here?!

   Harrison found a ball, teddy grahams, bubbles!!, a boat and a few shovels to play in the dirt/sand. It was perfect!!! I'm so happy we were able to participate in the exchange!
 
   We were also invited to an awesome Kentucky Derby/Cinco de Mayo/Birthday Party at my friend Jessica's house. What are the odds that all three would fall on the same day?! We enjoyed Mexican food while watching the Derby and eating birthday cupcakes. It was fabulous and nice to catch up with friends. What did Harrison do? Oh he freaked their dog out, proceeded to play with the dog toys and finally crawled under their table. Yes. My child will be the one under the table at the party. At least I'll know where to look I guess...

Mom I'm just lining up my cars under the table. I'm not making a mess!

With all this May fun, I can't imagine what June has in store!

~Emily

Play?!

   As stated before Harrison loves playing outside. Backyard, playgrounds, parks... you name it, the kid loves it. We're getting to the point that when we're doing something not-so-fun (shopping, eating, trying to go to bed...) my little man whimpers in the sweetest voice, "play.. play.. play!" Oh poor child of mine - I'm making you eat, bathe and take a nap instead of playing outside 24/7. Seriously. The boy lives for playing outside.

We love us some covered slides!

   Thank goodness we have a few parks close by!

  Don't mind me as I'm running around the side to make sure Harrison makes it to the slide. Plus he likes to yell "Momma" down the slide to make sure I'm there. It is nice to be wanted!

Later gator.

~Emily

The zoo.. Again!

   I swear, sometimes the zoo just doesn't get old. It's a good thing we're "friends of the zoo" and all.

Cheetos at the zoo!

   We have our little routine down pat. We get to the zoo before lunch. We see the polar bear then off to the train (choo choo). 

Relaxing on the train with our gator juice.

   After the train, it's off to Australia - Harrison can pretty much walk the whole thing. Then we load him into the stroller and head to the kid zone. After a quick carrousel ride and maybe some lunch it's to Africa!

Yes, I'm on the carrousel too!

  In Africa we love checking out the Sky Safari Ride and all of the chimpanzees/monkeys. On our last visit we went a bit out of order. We went to Africa first on the tram (or bus as Harrison calls it) and ate lunch overlooking the giraffes and ostriches. Nothing like a pb&j in the wilds of Africa!

Our scenic view - don't mind the napkin on that table...

   Harrison even got a special new drink - we called it gator juice. I think it was just flavored water in a fun gator bottle. That kept him entertained the rest of the day. 

Pretty much what the rest of the afternoon looked like
with some choking - not used to a "normal" drink.

   Harrison was more awake than normal and really liked checking out the lions and meerkats. 

That's a big lioness napping by the window. 

   The meerkats are always fun to watch. (They remind us of small Tootsies!)

Waving at Mr. Meerkat.

The best part about the zoo? The quiet that overtakes the backseat within 5 minutes of pulling away from the parking lot. Ah.. almost makes me want to take a nap. Okay so I did too. Happy wife, happy life, right?!

The wild one,

~Emily