A day with Aunt Kristi

The last weekend in April, Layne had to go to Chicago for a couple days for a powder show, so I took the kids to Manhattan for some Kristi Time. It was the weekend of amazing weather--so we headed to the Manhattan Zoo. Smaller, but beautiful zoo--tons of trees, a great playground, and a decent variety of animals. We enjoyed a Burger King sack lunch and then toured the zoo. We all enjoyed being outdoors and soaking up the sun! After the zoo, Kristi had heard on the radio that they were having activities going on at the Hey Baby store over by Target, so we drove that way and they had a fire truck and ambulance for kids to go through and a free jump house. Caden had fun looking at the vehicles and made several stops at the jump house. After naps--taken by all of us--we treated Kristi to dinner at Valentino's--a yummy Italian buffet--with icecream! Thanks for the fun day, Aunt Kristi!

Kristi and Brynn eating lunch.

Climbing on the playset.

Trying to figure out how to use a straw--or maybe just chewing!

This is how Caden ate his lunch--cheeseburger in hand, chasing the bird!

Caden and Kristi posing with the Tiger.

Kangaroo--check out the tongue!

Time to drag out the hats!

Beautiful Peacock!

Feeding the sheep at the petting zoo.

A fun statue with a bush growing as the body.

Driving the fire truck.

A picture with the Manhattan fire truck.

Looking at the ambulance.

Taking a quick break to say Hi to Aunt Kristi in the jump house.

Sunday--Daddy's home and it was nice enough to eat outside--
Daddy thought it would be fun to do see no, hear no, speak no evil---it was close to working!
Welcome back to the party, Daddy!