yesterday we went to the zoo with our friends, Brooke, Ben, Gianna, and Kenadee. it was pretty chilly but still fun! the older girls were walking around the zoo holding hands :) the zoo is a different place in the chillier weather! we got to see a trainer with the sea lion doing all of its tricks, the otters were out (we haven't seen them in a long time!) and more of the bears were out. malloy begged to go to the rainforest the entire time until we got there!!!! it's definitely her favorite place in the zoo. she loves to walk across the little rope bridge. rex sat happily in the wagon checking out all the animals and eating snacks. he's a good boy!
i thought that both kids would pass out on the way home, but neither of them did. i put them down when we got home - rex went right to sleep, malloy did not. she sang and talked in her bed for about an hour. i went up a few times to tell her to go to sleep. then i heard little footsteps padding around and a light switch flick on. when i went up, the light was on and she was playing in her bed with her care bear! the night before she had a terrible meltdown and part of it was that she wanted her projector turned back on (she missed it the first time because she was too busy screaming). she FINALLY figured out that she could get out of bed and turn it on!!! it was a first! so, she thought "hey, what the heck, i'll just go turn my light on!". after i took her care bear away she slept for 2 hrs!

today was pretty low key. we went to target this morning. both kids passed out on the way home. it was noon. you'd think the zoo would be a LOT more tiring that a trip to target...
this afternoon, malloy and i went back out to buy some yarn. she was so good! she walked around with me and stayed with me. she got to pick out what color yarn she wanted so i could make her (or at least attempt to!) a scarf. while we were at the store, she found a pair of fairy wings. they were on clearance so i got them for her because she was being so good! she left them on during dinner and ate all her dinner so that her fairy wings could get bigger and then she could fly! after dinner, we went outside with the fairy wings on. she was so excited to fly. we walked a few steps and she tells me "this isn't going to work". she cracks me up!
side note: as of a few days ago, rex has 2 new words: shoe and frog. he just comes out with random words that i didn't think he knew - he's full of surprises!! oh! and i found another tooth in his mouth today! it looks like a molar on the top right, but i'm not sure which tooth it is. no wonder he's had this runny nose for forever! the teeth just keep coming!!