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07/15/2005 Archived Entry: "friday fun"

This morning I packed up the girls and we headed to the LA Zoo. I had made a scavenger hunt for Tabitha and she thought it was the greatest idea ever! She had to find three nocturnal animals, three desert animals, three herbivores, three carnivores and three omnivores. Once she completed it all we went to one of the gift shops and I let her pick out a Zoo Book for her prize. She ended up choosing one on tortoises and turtles.
As a side note, every time I go to the zoo in the summer, I'm reminded why I don't allow my child to go to those day camps that go places. Shivers go up my spine when I see one adult walking in front of 15 children and never once looking to see if they are all following him. No thank you.
Speaking of summer classes, we ran into Tabitha's instructor from the Natural History Museum. Actually, she was my instructor too as she was from when Tabitha was 3 and 4 and it was a parent/child class. She's now working in the education department at the zoo. I always loved her and was sad she didn't do a 5 year old class last year. Hopefully Tabitha will get a chance to have her at a zoo class in the future.
We headed home a little after noon and Chris was about a half hour behind us. I played on the computer for awhile since I was tired from walking up hills all morning carrying a 15 pound baby and pushing a stroller. I swear the whole zoo is uphill, I only walked downhill once.
While playing on the computer I decided to look again for a cell phone ring to use when Chris is calling me. I played snippets of tons of them and Tabitha entertained us all by making up a dance for each song. Daisy thought she was hilarious and was squealing her heart out. I finally settled on Love Song by 311, btw.
We hate a quickie dinner of rice and broccoli and then headed to Monrovia for their street fair. My bil's place of business is located on that street and we were taking him once box of candy for him to sell in the store for the halau. The street fair was smaller than I remembered though, so we walked real slow to give Daisy time out of the car and also to hopefully go home after the traffic. We let Tabitha choose one of the inflatables and she chose and obstacle course that culminated in a giant slide. She got to go through three times and enjoyed it immensely. After we left, we decided to stop at Taco Bell to change and feed Daisy while enjoying some soda. Of course there wasn't a changing table in their restroom so we changed her in the trunk of the car which is always fun. We made it about 3/4 of the way home before Daisy had had enough and screamed for all she was worth. Tabitha was our little hero by playing countless games of peek-a-boo while I held Daisy's hand and stroked her head. As luck would have it, we hit two trains trying to get home. Once home though, she was fine immediately and was as adorable as always up until she realized how very late it was and demanded bed at once. The big one had already collapsed in bed and I think was asleep before I shut her door.
And now I'm updating here and Chris is desperately trying to find something on TV to take his mind of the Dodger game.