A Visit to the Zoo

We visited the Houston Zoo today. The girls spent the first ten minutes asking to get their faces painted which we finally figured out was actually what they did at the Cairo Zoo.

This may be the first picture of all four of them together... perhaps not. But it is definitely the most recent one.  I like these kids.

Sophie had a blast today. She loved looking at the elephants.... we got to see them eating hay and one of the baby elephants was playing in the water.

 Because we have a membership, we splurged today and let the girls ride the carousel. They loved it.  Did you know that having a membership knocks the carousel price in half? Yes-indeedy. Happy day.

And then we had the mandatory picture with the rhino.  I'm fairly certain we took these pictures last time we were here at the zoo. Savannah has decided that rhinos are her favorite animal. We had this conversation a few days ago. They are her favorite because they have horns and can poke the bad guys. What bad guys she is afraid of, I don't know. But she wants to have him live in the backyard. I'm thinking that's not gonna happen.

7 Quick Takes

7 Quick Takes for today to catch you up on the last couple of weeks...

1.
I just read a blog post from a food blog where every time the woman used the words cream, milk, butter or meat, she also said, parentheses hers, (from grass-fed cows). Every. Single. Time. You can't make this up. At some point, I'm going to write a post about I how I really feel about this.

2.
We visited my parents a couple of weeks ago and happened to be there on my brother's 21st birthday! The girls went outside and drew balloons and confetti all over the driveway for a "surprise party." It was really cute.

3.
We attended a community egg hunt with some friends. I only got to watch Sophie gather eggs, because the kids were segregated by age for the egg hunt. When her bag was full, but there were still many, many eggs on the ground, the lady in charge sent me in for another bag. And I went, 'cause, hello! Free candy!

4.
We also hung out with Brian's family for Easter weekend. Brian's mother put together an egg hunt for the grown-ups... the prizes? Chores and money! She divided up the before and after dinner chores, wrote them on slips of paper and inserted them into some of the eggs. Sadly, my sister-in-law, who typically does the majority of the clean-up, got no money. Karma is not just.

5.
Baby Brother got some pictures taken on Easter. He was nine weeks old!

6.
I think this sums up the egg hunt happiness!

7.
I've tried to post about this several times, but the thoughts and feelings in my head are not coming out as I mean it too. So instead of posting this huge thing with thoughts and feelings and explanations. Here it is:
Savannah was accepted into a charter school for the coming fall. We applied for Emily as well, but there were only 11 spots available for 2nd grade and she was number 203 on the list. Should we decide to follow this path for the school year of 2013, Emily should be accepted because of having a sibling enrolled in the school.