Family of 3

Gram picked up Ben, Sam and Ellie yesterday and took them to her house for Gram camp.  We are a family of 3 for the next few days. We always miss the kids when they leave us for long periods, but its kind of nice only having one kid again.

We did some shopping yesterday.  Zach got some pretty cool sunglasses and a new TMNT shirt.  We hung out at a park, had dinner out with aunt Corrie and spent some time outside playing.  Zach even got to stay up late and had a late night popcorn snack with us.

Jon took today off.  After going out to breakfast, we headed to the zoo.  If you know Zach, you know he is obsessed with giraffes.  We've never let the kids feed the giraffes before, but we let Zach do it today.

The boy was in heaven.  He fed them, talked to them for a few minutes and made sure to say bye when it was time to move on.

Once we saw all the animals Zach wanted to see, we went bowling.  Zach was thrilled to have the lane to himself.  He finished 2 games in record time and even beat his high score.  Toys R Us is clearing out some stuffed animals so he might have conned us into buying 2 small ones, then we came home to rest a bit.  We have plenty more planned for the next couple days.  We'll do some putt putt after dinner. Sky Zone, the pool and maybe a little Chuck E Cheese is on the agenda for tomorrow and we'll see how much energy we have for Wednesday.  I'm sure the other 3 are being equally spoiled by Gram.  I see a lot of "who had a better time fights" when they come home.