What We've Been Doing

I love those big beautiful brown eyes. What a cutie!








I took this picture a few weeks ago. I think he's starting to get tired.



Yesterday I was smiling and squinting my eyes at Alex and he was responding by doing the same thing. I tried to get him to do it on camera but he wouldn't do it, but I did manage to get a picture of it. Every time we look at it, it make us laugh hysterically.


A few weeks ago my Sister-in-law and I took the kids to The Petting Zoo at Thanksgiving Point here are some of the things that we saw.

On the big version of the photo you can see that Melly weighs somewhere between 5 baby lambs and a goat. If you squint you can see that she weighs about 100 units. I know those can't be pounds, maybe grams, no wait that's what my lunch weighed. I guess she just weighs 106. On a side note how crappy would your day be if you got on that scale and it pointed to a sow and her litter of piglets. Way to boost someone's self esteem Thanksgiving Point!


We haul Alex along on all these adventures and he is such a trooper. He looks so tired and I'm sure he is so bored.


One of the workers was nice enough to get out one of the bunnies so that Melly could see it up close and pet it. Melly had a different idea, as soon as the bunny was within range she started to reach for it and asked, "Take it?" We had to jump in and intervene.


I love the goats, they're so cute. Melly wasn't so sure about this one. I think she thought it was going to eat her dress. Earlier a cow licked her face and it wierded her out and I think that's why she was freaked out.


This baby goat was so small it could fit through the fences between the stalls. It followed us all the way down the line as we walked. It was so cute.


If I was so miserable with just one baby in my belly I can't imagine what this poor goat is feeling. There's gotta be like 6 babies in there, she's so big. Goats don't give birth to 6 really only 1 or 2, but she is huge.


This plastic sheep had it's eyes painted black. When Melly saw it she looked at me and said, "aseep(asleep)mommy"


Ya know those pictures where some weird guy is making a face in the background? Well apparently Alex decided to be that guy and reveal to the world that he is bat boy.


We went to the children's fair at onion days. Melly got a butterfly painted on her face and her hair colored pink. She completely loved it. She looks like a little rocker.


Alex also got his face painted. I requested an axe, (because his nick name is Ax) but apparently the girl had no experience drawing axes and she couldn't figure out how to draw it so Alex had to settle for a snake.


The other day she got up in the morning and decided to get herself dressed before coming in to wake us up. This is what we saw.


Last night at 2:00 am Melly decided it was time to get up for the day. Look at those two bright eyed girls. She was awake for 2 hours and it still didn't stop her from waking up at her normal time. I was not happy.