You Want to See My Monkey?

Friday was Easton's "off day"...between his 2 poos, a nasty skid mark, getting soaked in the hose, and then spilling some juice the boy went through 6 pairs of underwear that day. So at one point he was in just underwear...less laundry that way. While I was IMing with Jason about what the heck we were gonna have for dinner that night, Easton went to the fridge, got some juice, put it and himself on the counter and proceeded to pour himself a cup without spilling a drop. We joked that he's ready for Montessori now! We've noticed they're big on pouring.

I was watching the whole thing from here at the computer. I told him that he did good but next time Mommy needs to help him. And you know what: when I helped him later, we spilled! Ha ha!

Later he put on his monkey costume and we went out to the front yard for a bit and my monkey boy did what he does best: climb:










And Dalton just diddled around because he's good at that:






Then we went to Target...what a nightmare that was. Easton was horrible. He wasn't listening, he was throwing fits, I went there to get dinner fixings but ended up grabbing only diapers because we had to hightail it out of there. With Easton tantruming the whole time.

I told you it was an off day.

Dinner wasn't too bad...we played with clothespins:


E went to bed slightly early and we kept Dalton up a tad later. Thank goodness for the early bedtime, everyone slept in till 7:30 on Saturday and Easton was much better for his 9 a.m. soccer game, even though he looks like a brat here:


He's in the warm up circle, I think he was making his Buzz face at me, the hands on hips thing is Buzz. He wasn't being a stinker. And he did more warm-ups channeling his inner Jane Fonda, or perhaps John Travolta:


I find this one hysterical, not because of Easton--he's not doing anything too exciting...but look at his teammate in the upper right corner. Click the pic for a closer view of poor Ben caught at a most inopportune time:

Bwah haha ha!

It was lovely and overcast that morning, Diddles wore one of his winter outfits, but just look at how cute our "BA!" fan is:




Go, Eastie, Go!




Dalton can't wait till one day when he can really play too:


I was tickling him to keep him entertained, Jason was all, I want to get a picture of that...but it didn't turn out well, looks quite the opposite of the fun we were having:


Not enjoying the baby banana half time snack:

Dizz didn't like them either. Oh well.

Watching the game:


After his game the little guys and I actually went to the zoo. Jason was due for some me time and he likes to have his at the house sometimes (he gets to leave all the time). So, he wanted to be able to crank his guitars and record some vocals and stuff without having to worry about the rest of us.

Plus our zoo pass expires this month. I totally plan to renew it, but not until we plan to go to the zoo again. And we don't go much in the summer: too hot. But not yesterday, I think it was an overcast 66 degrees.

Dalton fell asleep on the way there, he'd had two rough nights where he was up a lot (but no milk!):


Easton just made mischevious faces at me:


We did not do our regular path at the zoo. Instead Easton was wanting to see some snakes so that was what we focused on...but the giraffes are on the way:




The polar bears on are the way too:




As is the snack bar, tee hee...we had coupons for a free beverage. It expires with our season pass so I wanted to make sure we got it. Easton entertained himself in the line:

I bought some onion rings for myself and we got our free drink and then we sat to snack:




Some little critters decided to join us...we even invited them too by sprinking some of our crumbs for them:




The sea lions are right by that snack bar:


And then we finally made it over to their "Tropical Discovery" building where the snakes and such are. They don't allow strollers so Easton took a picture of me and D:


Checking out some sort of snake:


Looking at the fish and gigantic turtle:


Dalton liked the little ones:


I'm pretty sure this face is from when he was looking at the Komodo Dragons:


After we finished in tropical discovery we "needed" to head over to the carousel. We also had a "free ride" coupon that expired soon we had to use. Easton got to get really close to a peacock on the way:


And we stopped to share some ice cream:



You think that's cute? Just think how cute it must've been when all three of us were enjoying a simultaneous lick.

Finally we made it over to the carousel:


Dalton was excited when he realized what we were going to do:


Easton picked a monkey one...duh!


By default Dalton got the zebra next to E's:


Here's me!


Then I packed them both in the stroller with some Cheez-Its and hiked back towards the exit:


We spent much more time at the zoo than I'd thought. Jason got lots of time to work on his music stuff so that was good. I put Dalton down for a late nap as soon as we got home. Easton and Jason headed out to mow the lawn. I made sure not to let D sleep too long which was smart: he went straight to sleep at 7:45 and not a peep from him till 7:05 this morning. His second night of sleeping straight through! We're getting there!