I still have Michele's zoo membership card - I should pass that to my mom now, actually. Hold on.
Okay, back. And they had a lot of fun, and were quite well-behaved (especially compared to some other kids I saw. When you are ~7 and ~5 years old, and your mother finally deigns to notice that you're feeding the rabbit cheez-its and pretzels, the polite thing to do when she asks you "Please, just stop doing that" for 5+ minutes is to outright ignore her rather than acknowledging she said something and then continuing to do it anyway. At least in the first one everybody can pretend you didn't hear a word she said. I'm just sayin'....) and we went to a playground nearby after, which was much larger than I had previously realized.
We also saw Meghan there - she was arriving as I was leaving, and I foolishly went to talk to her. Well, I mean, we were going opposite directions, it wasn't my brightest move ever :) And I was *so* embarrassed.... ( Read more... )
But honestly, I could have just died. Totally unacceptable, and to her friend, no less! But she was in a crankyclingy mood all day, and spent a considerable amount of time on my back in the mei-tai. Deniz was very jealous, so she got a ride too, but either I totally messed up putting it on, or she's really much too big. Oh well.
( At the playground )
Okay, back. And they had a lot of fun, and were quite well-behaved (especially compared to some other kids I saw. When you are ~7 and ~5 years old, and your mother finally deigns to notice that you're feeding the rabbit cheez-its and pretzels, the polite thing to do when she asks you "Please, just stop doing that" for 5+ minutes is to outright ignore her rather than acknowledging she said something and then continuing to do it anyway. At least in the first one everybody can pretend you didn't hear a word she said. I'm just sayin'....) and we went to a playground nearby after, which was much larger than I had previously realized.
We also saw Meghan there - she was arriving as I was leaving, and I foolishly went to talk to her. Well, I mean, we were going opposite directions, it wasn't my brightest move ever :) And I was *so* embarrassed.... ( Read more... )
But honestly, I could have just died. Totally unacceptable, and to her friend, no less! But she was in a crankyclingy mood all day, and spent a considerable amount of time on my back in the mei-tai. Deniz was very jealous, so she got a ride too, but either I totally messed up putting it on, or she's really much too big. Oh well.
( At the playground )