ZOO

We took Drake to the zoo last week. It was a blast! The weather was great and we got there right when it opened so it wasn't really busy until about the time we were ready to leave. Drake is at such a fun age! He's so interactive! He knows all the animal names and would just laugh when they did anything. He thought it was amazing! However, the gorilla was freaky as hell! I'm being serious! We walked in the building and no one was in there so we walked up to the window and the gorilla walked on all fours right up to the window and just stared at us. Well then a group of teenage girls walked in, so the gorilla walked over to their side of the window and just stared at them. Then, the thing got up and grabbed a toy ball and jump/walked back over to us and threw the ball at the window and then hit the window right in front of us and he made a grunting noise. It was pretty freaking!! I felt bad because Drake got a little scared and I can't say I blame him! CJ and I were too. Needless to say we got out of there as fast as we could :)

Drake is as big as a female orangutang :)

My sisters hate blog posts with no pictures. So, I'll apologize right now, because there will be no pictures.

So Drake just celebrated his 4th birthday! Can you believe that!!? I'm sure you can because you don't live with the kid, however, CJ and I are still in shock about it.
I will post pictures as soon as I remember to.
He had a ton of fun with all of his family there! We now have a huge back yard that we get to enjoy so it was lots and lots of fun.
He also had his 4 yr check up at the Dr.'s and it went great! He's 98% for weight and 92% for height. Nice work kid!

His loves right now include:
Dinosaurs (and lots of them)
Apples (he eats one EVERY day)
National Geographic channel
The show Finding Bigfoot (he's obsessed)
Puzzles.



Quick funny story: (I say funny but it may not be funny to you and that's ok) We (CJ and I) say prayers every night with Drake and we kneel next to his bed. Well for a couple weeks he's been fighting us a little. He just says things like "Will you help me?" or we'll all fold our arms waiting for Drake to start the prayer and he'll tell us that he has to stretch first. Well, one night we got Drake all ready for bed and in his PJ's and he just hopped right into bed without kneeling bedside with us. CJ told him to get down and "reminded" him that we kneel next to our bed to say our bedtime prayers and Drake's response was "oh, (snicker) I didn't even realize". It took all CJ and I had not to bust up laughing at him. He is too young to be using words like "realize" and he didn't even finish his sentence correctly which made it that much more adorable. He was trying to act so smooth and grown up and it totally didn't work!

Then Easter rolled around and it was pretty much ruined because of my cheapness. Don't judge. Here is goes......
My sister Jessica lives in California and she was at a dollar store out there and saw a cute camo Easter basket. She called me to see if I wanted it and I of course said "YES!" It was camo..... and only a buck! Well, she came into town and gave me the basket when Drake was not in the room, so there is no way he could have seen it. Also, because Drake's b-day is so close to Easter some people will give him Easter eggs for his b-day. Anyway, I keep them, I also have kept the one's that my parents or CJ's parents have given Drake in his Easters baskets throughout the year. I just use the same eggs each year and it's no big deal, I mean the kid see's them once a year and then they get taken away and I put them in my Easter bin downstairs. Well during Drake's Easter egg hunt he finds his basket and makes the comment "That's from Jess." He was so matter of fact about it that I thought I was going to die. I acted all confused and tried to just ignore him, lol!!! I think I said "Why would you think that?" ha! And he just kept saying "That's from Jess." I have no idea how he would have thought or figured that out but I'm going to have to be ten times more sneaky next year. Then..... When we were inside going though his eggs he picked up a particular egg and said "Hey! This is from my birthday last year!" He seemed excited about it, but again, CJ and I about DIED!!! How does this kid remember things that small from his Birthday a year ago???!
Lesson learned. Even though I have the storage room for a small bag of free Easter eggs; I need to go buy brand new ones every year!!!!! And I'll have to buy an Easter basket late Saturday night after the kid goes to sleep.

A New Friend

I'm going to stop lying to myself and others. I will not promise that I'm going to post more, because I really don't know if that's true, ha! I will post when I post! Here is a quick post/story for you.

I was putting Laundry away one afternoon and I could hear a knocking noise coming from Drake's bedroom. It kind of freaked me out because I knew no one was in there. I walked in and realized that whatever it was, was outside and it was knocking on Drake's window. Ok, I would be lying if I told you I was not completely freaked out, lol. I slowly opened the blinds to see this.......

a Robin, pecking at the window. (don't make fun of me for all the rain spots on the outside of my windows) This thing won't leave. I've hit the window to scare it away but the dang thing keeps coming back to Drake's window. Drake thinks it's amazing and says it's his friend. Drake has come up with a very unique name for it..... Flappy The Bird..... unique right? Anyway, I hate the thing. It was cool for about two hours and now I'm tired of it.