Beauty in the Common Things: Seeing family. Went to my first family reunion today on my Dad's father's side. It was nice to finally put faces with names that I've heard for 20 some odd years. Wish I could have had more time to get to know them.
Listen In: Grant reading to his giraffe and elephant. Grant and I read his favorite books every night now before bed time, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and "ABC with Dr. Suess". Cloudy was one of my personal favorites that I bought for his first Christmas, so I'm excited he's taking a liking to it. The ABC one (which we somehow have 3 copies of!), we both have basically memorized by now, so that's what he's reading to them. Smarty pants!
View from Kitchen Window: A dogless backyard. Honey and Rowdy have escaped for the last time...they are camping out at MiMi and PawPaw's until we get a new fence. It is frustrating all the way around!
September seemed to go by so fast. Daniel and I have been busy with school, getting the Interact club back in full swing, getting Grant back into children's day out, and just life in general. Right now, there is no free weekend for quite awhile! I guess I should have plenty to blog about!
Of course, the weather has began to get cooler and therefore nicer, so we've been spending more time outside. Grant got a sandbox for his birthday in April, but we finally got to fill it and and let him have at it. I think there are almost as many toys as there is sand in the box, but thats ok!
I'm continuing to work on my masters and will finish in 8 months! I now have a few friends that are in the same program, so we've been working hard together. I was cracking up at Christine and I in these heaphone/mics that I borrowed from school for a project. "Welcome to Wendy's, can I take your order?"
One Saturday morning, we made an impromtu visit to the Dallas Zoo. We recently became members, so its all free to us....this is a good thing since it poured down rain once we came into Dallas County! We decided to get some ponchos and brave it anyway.
This is Dallas Zoo's new exhibit that I had yet to see.
Some of the animals were hiding from the rain, but not the lions. We walked up to the glass and there was about 5 of them hanging around. I noticed a small lion looking like he was ready to pounce, and he was glaring at my son. I punched my husband and told him to take a look, and as soon as I did, that lion took off running toward Grant. Now of course we are on the other side of this thick glass, but I grabbed Grant up and Daniel stepped in front of us. Gran just laughed. This lion turned fast and then began trying to dig to get to Grant. The large female lion slapped this one on the behind to make him stop, there was roaring back and forth. Grant was just laughing. Then this lion, as you can see by the picture, began pawing at Grant on the glass. At that point, I thought, "OH! Good, this thing is just playing, not trying to eat my son. Phew!" The zoo keeper was standing there and said the lion was 2 years old...haha just like Grant (but much bigger!)
The male lion of the pride just enjoyed the rain, I guess. I thought this was a cool shot.
Like I said earlier, we got some ponchos with our gift shop discount and I laughed most of the time at Grant with that poncho on. It was way too big and to me he looked like E.T. in the scene where he is dressed as a ghost for Halloween.
The rain wasn't letting up, so we decided to go eat lunch somewhere and head home. But of course we had to hit the merry-go-round first! Check out those dimples on Grant and the chest on the gorilla (haha!)
Oh no, someone caught me making that same face my mother does! EEK! Grant didn't want me holding him....
Another afternoon, we took a visit to my friend Vanessa's house. She has several horses and let Grant 'play' with them. He loved sitting on Faux Pas. She's about 8 times older than Grant!
He also got to brush Penny and make her coat shiny! Thanks Vanessa for letting us come over! We'll have to do it again soon!
Some of the animals were hiding from the rain, but not the lions. We walked up to the glass and there was about 5 of them hanging around. I noticed a small lion looking like he was ready to pounce, and he was glaring at my son. I punched my husband and told him to take a look, and as soon as I did, that lion took off running toward Grant. Now of course we are on the other side of this thick glass, but I grabbed Grant up and Daniel stepped in front of us. Gran just laughed. This lion turned fast and then began trying to dig to get to Grant. The large female lion slapped this one on the behind to make him stop, there was roaring back and forth. Grant was just laughing. Then this lion, as you can see by the picture, began pawing at Grant on the glass. At that point, I thought, "OH! Good, this thing is just playing, not trying to eat my son. Phew!" The zoo keeper was standing there and said the lion was 2 years old...haha just like Grant (but much bigger!)The male lion of the pride just enjoyed the rain, I guess. I thought this was a cool shot.
Like I said earlier, we got some ponchos with our gift shop discount and I laughed most of the time at Grant with that poncho on. It was way too big and to me he looked like E.T. in the scene where he is dressed as a ghost for Halloween.The rain wasn't letting up, so we decided to go eat lunch somewhere and head home. But of course we had to hit the merry-go-round first! Check out those dimples on Grant and the chest on the gorilla (haha!)Oh no, someone caught me making that same face my mother does! EEK! Grant didn't want me holding him....
Another afternoon, we took a visit to my friend Vanessa's house. She has several horses and let Grant 'play' with them. He loved sitting on Faux Pas. She's about 8 times older than Grant!
He also got to brush Penny and make her coat shiny! Thanks Vanessa for letting us come over! We'll have to do it again soon!
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