The spraygrounds around here are open from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend. So, we spent our Labor Day, in 105° heat, running through the sprayground as our last hurrah. The girls had a blast.

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I started the “Popsicles in the tub” thing weeks ago when it was too hot to go outside and enjoy them. I’m talking 112°. Hot enough that if the girls fell down on the pavement, they’d probably burn themselves! Ridiculous. So we began having popsicles in the tub.. because hey, they could get as messy as they wanted! All I had to do was fill the tub up when they were done and give them a bath, which cleaned the bath tub and the children, all in one swoop! If anything is winning, that right there is.

Finishing up the popsicles while I started filling the tub. Kiera always has to be doing whatever Zoey is doing, of course!

Kiera was a total ham, as usual. When you ask her to say “Cheese!” for pictures, she says it in a long, dramatic manner with an exaggerated squinty faced smile. When she smiles her eyes disappear and I want to grab her and squeeze her and give her lots of kisses. She’s so adorable. I always said I wanted an asian baby and, well, I think I got her.

The girls cannot be anymore opposite when it comes to water. Zoey has always enjoyed bath time or playing in the water, but has NEVER EVER EVER EVER liked having water in her face. There was a good year where she would cry every time we washed her hair because a drop of water MIGHT get on her face somewhere. She freaks out when she is splashed (but enjoys splashing others, of course), every time. Kiera, however, is not afraid. At all. The child is throwing herself into the water constantly. Her new favorite thing is to swim in the bath tub, which quite frankly freaks me out a little, though I do not discourage her. She’s my little water baby!

They were both swimming, though this didn’t last long for Zoey.

Kiera’s face kept going in and out of the water and she was laughing hysterically. Zoey stopped “swimming” after I got a picture of her doing it the first time because water was going everywhere.

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We took the girls to the Zoo last weekend when we knew the high temperature for the day was UNDER 90. It was gorgeous and we had a blast! We didn’t get up until close to 11 AM, so we were late getting out the door, which means we stopped at good ol’ Mickey Ds on the way to grab a quick lunch. Here, Zoey proudly sports her plain cheeseburger. Nom nom.

For the first time ever, we made it just in time for the giraffe feeding. It’s $3 for 3 romaine lettuce leaves, which is TOTALLY worth the experience because oh my gosh, it was soooo cool!

Zoey waits with her lettuce. She fed the giraffe 2 and I fed the giraffe one. Kiera didn’t get to feed one and I felt really bad for not letting her do that, but Zoey was clinging to me, Gene was taking pictures and I couldn’t hold Kiera. I need more arms! Maybe next time she can. She is still young enough that she doesn’t seem to care.

Kiera had a lot of fun running around. She’s a silly girl. So mellow when we go out, just hangs out and goes with the flow. Never whines or needs anything.

and the girls had their very first cotton candy experience. They loved it. Kiera ESPECIALLY loved it. I had to cut the girl off!

We saw the giraffes, the rhinos, the tigers and that is about it. We were there for a few hours and we had a lot of fun but nap time was approaching and Kiera was fading fast. The nice thing about having a Zoo pass is that we don’t feel like we need to see EVERYTHING in one day to get our money’s worth. We can go back plenty of times!

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