Some random updates

Here are some photos/updates from the last week or so. This past weekend Eric ran the Twin Cities 10mi, and we stayed down here to visit with Kelly, Dave, Grace and Lucy. We had an awesome time going to the Children's museum, swimming, shopping and to dinner at Kelly's college friend LaNae's parent's house. On Saturday I took the boys out for a bike ride in the burley all by myself :) This may not seem like a big deal, but Eric is always the one that takes Leyton for rides, so I was pretty proud that I was able to get it hooked up, and decided to let Cal go for his first ride too (since I was alone with them both I had no other option)! We just went around the couple blocks by our house over and over again since I didn't have a helmet for Cal... pretty dumb I know. Getting him a helmet is on the list! Anyhow, when I put Cal in it next to Leyton he started bawling, but as soon as we started moving he was so happy! Didn't make a peep the whole time besides a few happy squeals. I'm guessing his initial crying was from fear that I was strapping him down to something right next to Leyton... and I cant really blame him for how Leyton treats him sometimes... Anyhow, here are a few random photos!

Cal has been walking behind his little push toys a lot lately, and he gets so excited after he goes a long ways! This nice weather has provided Leyton lots of crazy football time outside, and is a nice relief for me, Cal and the house!
Another thing Leyton likes to do lately is bring his tractor and bobcat stuff outside and put "hay" (grass) in the wagons. It brings back so many childhood memories of my sisters and I doing the same thing! We got the boys new chairs awhile ago, and when Eric was here a couple weeks ago we finally got them out and put together. They seem to like them so far! Leyton loved watching the Packer game in his new chair!

Milwaukee Zoo!

Last weekend Eric came down to Dodgeville. Friday night Leyton and Eric went to the Dodgeville HS football game while Cal and I hung out at home. I expected them to be home after half-time, but they stayed until the very end, because Leyton didn't want to leave! Dodgeville lost by a lot... but Leyton still had fun! Then Saturday we headed to the Milwaukee zoo. I've always wanted to go, and heard its a great zoo, so we finally did it. Leyton had gone twice with Daycare, once last year and then this year, but he was still excited to go with us! He probably thought it was neat that he'd been there and we hadn't ;). Anyhow, it didn't disappoint! They have a lot of neat animals, and there's also a train ride around the park that was probably the highlight of Leyton's day. The only bummer was that Leyton really wanted to show us the Gorillas and that's all he'd been talking about, and they were not on display the day we were there. Oh well, maybe next year!
To say we were all obsessed with the Elephant would be an understatement... He was SO cool! It was neat to see one up so close, and you forget how big they really are! Leyton thought it was funny how his feet were "circles" on the bottom, and Cal could not stop starring! Seriously, the whole time we were by him Cal did not take his eyes off of him (see photo below). I tried to get a picture of him and Leyton and Eric in front of the elephant but every photo was just the back of Cal's head b/c he was cranking his neck around to see the elephant! The tiger was kind of scary because he kept coming right up to the glass and starring at us, and pacing back and forth! Leyton was a little nervous, but I'm sure that's because he could tell I was!We thought maybe we could skip the farm portion, since Leyton gets to see cows quite a bit at Grandma and Grandpa's, but he was not going to let us get away with that. We had to go there, and what did he only want to see? The cows.... for a long time....Cal did great considering he was in the stroller for a large portion of the day...The aquariums are always neat to see... and Cal really wanted to touch the fish!The bear in the hammock was way too cute! It was a long, tiring day, but well worth the trip!