Showing posts with label Adventures in Cleveland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adventures in Cleveland. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Christmas at the Zoo


Today we had breakfast with some friends who were super awesome to prepare a wonderful meal including the most delicious chocolate-cinnamon rolls, or as Nathan called them Happiness Solidified, we've ever eaten. (Thank you, Weights!) After breakfast we all gathered together at the Cleveland Zoo to see Santa and his reindeer.

Here are some fun pictures from our adventures today.


Santa and Mrs. Claus were in the wolf cabin. When we walked in the kids had the option to make bird feeder pine cones, which was something I was planning on doing with them this week anyway, so now I don't have to buy bird feed -sweet!


Megan was the only one of our kids that wanted to see Santa and she almost chickened out at the last minute. She suddenly got really shy and silly when it was her turn and became super glued to my leg. Santa was great! He told Megan that she reminded him of a couple of his reindeer, that Prancer is the silliest of his reindeer and Doner is the most shy. That got her attention and she agreed to sit on his lap.
Megan asked him where his reindeer were kept and so when everyone was finished with their visit with Santa and their pine cones we walked down to them.


The Zoo has special winter rates that included the Rain Forest where they had an area set up with cookies, frosting, and sprinkles for the kids. Here's Jeremy about to take his first bite of his Christmas tree cookie.

We had more fun today, too, but that story and corresponding pictures will have to be told later as the pictures haven't been through Photo Shop yet.

We had lots of fun today Weights, Brimhalls, and Monsons!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Adventures of Kellie in Cleveland Continue

So today, being April 1st, the library park finally opened. I've been waiting for this day for a couple weeks now. I took the kids and let them run wild for about half an hour or so until I smelled Emma.

It had been so nice. Megan and Jeremy were playing well together and with the other kids at the park. It was a beautiful day, blue sky, pretty light clouds, nice breeze.

And it all had to end because Emma stank pretty bad. We then took ourselves into the library to change her. Well, if there is a baby changing station in the bathroom, it must have been located in the handicapped stall, which was occupied. So I took the kids into the vestibule (is that the right word?) area and proceeded to change Emma on the floor.

The poop had gone all the way up her back and to her neck. Her clothes were disgusting (a white, really cute onesie was destroyed and accidentally forgotten on the library's bathroom sink, ew). I had to take all her clothes off and as soon as I did, she peed. All over her legs, feet, and the floor. I yelled for Megan and Jeremy to bring me paper towels. This library apparently doesn't use paper towels, only hand driers. So I asked them to bring me "lots of toilet paper." Want to know what they brought back to me?

It looked like this.

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