Potawatomi Zoo

We took the weekend to make a trip to the Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend.  We planned to drive down the night before so that we could get to the zoo early and have plenty of time there before anyone got tired or hungry.  The kids had a great time in the pool, staying in the hotel, and eating the hotel breakfast.  Then they had to hang out in the hotel lobby for three hours while I got a flat tire fixed.

But other than that (and Debbie did a great job keeping them entertained), the day went well.  They had fun at the zoo and even more fun at the playground next door (all the way through the zoo: "Can we go to the playground now?").  Ethan's shoes got wet at the hotel, were removed to dry, and then were forgotten, so he had to run barefoot through the zoo and the playground, but he didn't seem to mind (we remembered to pick them up on the way home).

Easter 2012

Another Easter, another chance to look for eggs.

In the morning:


And after lunch:

A lot of the candy quietly disappeared later!

First Ice Cream of 2012

One Saturday in March the weather was beautiful and warm, so we packed a lunch and the kids and took everyone for a short day trip to Hidden Lake Garden, an arboretum run by our local state university.  It was the first all-family trip of any kind since Isaac was born.

On the way back, we stopped so that Isaac could nurse, and I treated Abigail and Ethan to the first ice cream stop of the year.