What have I been doing?

Obviously I have not been doing much sewing or anything craft related lately; I have been reading. Lots and lots of reading.
Colin insists on reading this book multiple times a day
 
This is one of his favorite scenes in the book.
This is the other book we have been reading.
I think it is a great book. I especially love how the authors relate the things that are happening to mommy to the children in a way that they can understand.
Colin is over the moon with the idea of becoming a big brother. He lights up like the Griswold's house at Christmas time when you call him big brother. He asks all day if the baby is napping and if it turned off the lights in my tummy so the baby could go night-night. Every night before bed we read the big brother book together and he gives our baby (my tummy) lots of loves. These little moments  have almost erased the memories of playing with the Lego's in the bathroom during what should have been mom's "private time".
We are taking Colin with us to the ultrasound on Monday, I hope he enjoys seeing his little brother or sister (Colin says it's a sister)on the tv screen. I hope it doesn't confuse him :) We are all excited to find out the gender on Monday, only a few more days!

Zoo-After Hours

Scott, my father-in-law, had his company picnic at the Oregon Zoo this last weekend. It was a blast. I cannot say how cool it is to be at the zoo after it is closed. The animals were very active even at 4 o'clock when we got there :) This post is going to have a lot of photos, sorry put I couldn't resist sharing.

      

  I think the female lion thought Colin was a lion cub. His hair is pretty close to their coloring. She was very gently with him while she tried to bathe him. It terrified me even though I kept telling myself there was a protective layer of glass. Colin loved every minute. She would paw at him and it would fill me with fright, finally I couldn't take it anymore and I had to pull him away. I had nightmares that night :)

We saw all the animals that we never get to see, it was obvious that they were night time predators. I hope that Scott's work has it at the zoo again next year, and that we are inviting again :)

These two birds cracked us up. The bird with the log in it's beak kept trying to give it to the other bird. She would not except and was running all over the exhibit trying to get away. The bird with the log was persistent and never gave up. We left while she was still running from him :)

Fun in the sun...

All weekend long :)

     

We had a very busy and very fun weekend and I even did a little sewing :)

Dino's at the Zoo

 

It was a very emotion filled trip to the zoo for Colin. I will admit that some of the dinosaurs were scary and very life like with all of their life like movements. Not to mention the spitting ones that sprayed water at you. I think the sounds were the worst for Colin. He kept saying "oh, no!" and we explained every time that they were just robots that looked like dinosaurs :)

A Special Visit

Please excuse me while I play catch up with some photos. My Uncle Mike was in town from Florida and it happened to be my Uncle Jim's birthday. Those two events defiantly called for a family gathering. Unfortunately not everyone could make it including some baked beans that jumped out along the journey to Grandma's house.

Colin took this photo :)

Grandpa Rollie and Colin filling up the fountain 

Showing Colin how to fish/ clean out the pond

Noah wanting outside :)    

Colin trying to help Noah open the screen door :)

The birthday boy, Uncle Jim.  He is a wonderful man so much so that we gave Colin part of his name...Colin James :) Have I mentioned that he is single??? (I will probably get a phone call for that comment)  

The boys and everyone else loved the cake. Costco cake is delicious.

I didn't get a lot of pictures taken, what I do have Brett took most of them. I was to busy chatting :)